Recent updates to the Ruby Production Archive (RPA)

Last updated on Sat Aug 14 12:00:00 CEST 2004

More packages are being added to the preliminary Ruby Production Archive on a daily basis; here’s what I’ve packaged recently:

PrettyException:	a lib. to pretty-print exceptions in HTML format (very useful for the web. devels out there)
MW::Template:	a templating library needed by PrettyException

I have also updated a number of packages to the latest releases; here are the ones I’ve done in the last few days:

diff-lcs 1.1.0
rb-gsl 1.5.0
aeditor 1.5
sqlite 1.3.1
IOWA 0.9

Changes in rpa-base

I have been a bit too busy maintaining the repository and answering to too many emails — if you’ve seen all the noise in ruby-talk, you might want to listen to the (sadly) only authoritative source of information on RPA at the moment: I will eventually try to explain the goals better and reply to some of the statements made a bit light-heartedly in ruby-talk.

I could still manage to fix a few bugs that affected the bootstrap phase of rpa-base (e.g. it would fail to install itself under mingw) and implement a few additional features (notably better proxy specification). Tarballs with the ‘release critical’ fixes are available in Rubyforge. If you had rpa-base already installed, you can upgrade it with

  rpa update
  rpa install rpa-base

as usual.

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Changes in rpa-base