From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-02-08T01:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Packaging (was Re: HTML Parsing (round 2))

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 08:39:59PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Which makes me think a useful feature for a packaging system would be
> some way to track the currency of a package, maybe with a "last
> certified current" metadata field that gets regularly updated even if
> nothing in the package actually changes. That way, if you're the
> maintainer, you update it say once a day, whereas if you've mirrored
> someone else's package, you don't change it at all.

Heh. Let's first adopt just _any_ packaging system for Ruby, then worry about
features like these :-) Although much has been written on this topic, last
time I checked this was still undecided.

(Btw, I agree that this could be useful.)

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