From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T08:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 (will raa-install be included?)

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:47 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:
>
> Any chance we'll see raa-install included in 1.8.0?
>

I should note a few important issues with raa-install that should be cleared 
up before acceptance into 1.8.0.  Many of these could be cleared up quickly, 
but still represent some barrier to entry.

First, raa-install is accessing compressed YAML at 
http://narf-lib.sf.net/raa/.  The information on RAA has been condensed to 
20k or so (for the benefit of our dialup friends worldwide).  By comparison, 
the YAML file on RAA [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/raa-yaml.yml] is well over 
600k.

So the dilemma is: do we want something in the Ruby dist dependant on a 3rd 
party URL?  Probably not.  So we'll need to consider compressed offerings on 
RAA.

Secondly, raa-install depends on a number of modules which can be deprecated 
for 1.8.0.  The 'raainstall/stringio' and 'raainstall/raaopen' modules would 
clutter 1.8.0.  So we'd need to strip all 1.6-isms from raa-install and test.

There's not much to do, but worth mentioning the obstacles.  The RAA metadata 
involving a bit o' teamwork.

_why