| Last updated on Sat Aug 07 12:00:00 CEST 2004 | ||||
| 100+ Ruby libraries and applications in the Ruby Production Archive | ||||
rpa-base 0.2.0 has been
released. In order to prove that the Ruby
Production Archive (RPA) approach is practical, I created over 100
packages: all of Rubyforge’s "top sellers" (Rails, Rake,
RedCloth, Active Record, SQLite, Log4R, Copland, ruvi, to name a few) and
many others: take a look at the full
list of packaged software. This means that it is now possible to do
rpa install instiki rake rails ruvi # or any of the other 100+ libs/apps and get these packages plus all their dependencies installed in one go, and atomically (no garbage left, guaranteed), on a number of platforms (rpa-base has been tested on OSX, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, older RH, Win32: XP, 2K, cygwin and "Pragmatic installer", etc…) A number of movies show rpa-base in action, while installing Instiki, Rake, Rlimit (a C extension), Rails, etc… I have some funny videos where syck crashes and rpa-base recovers just fine :)… I am fully expecting other projects to mimic the usage of animations to showcase apps, which I originally stole from Rails, especially since I have created them with yet another small Ruby script. RPA is a very ambitious project and I could really use some help. Here are some of the areas that need to be worked on:
The 2 first ones in particular can be carried out with relative independence from rpa-base… I’d be really happy if you dropped a message to <batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com> (adding RPA to the subject will help get it past the spam filtering ;) or contacted me via IRC, batsman @ #ruby-lang on freenode.net. |
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