I just tried to install rpa-base-0.2.0b on a Win2K machine, with no luck.

First, it keeps asking me to modify the installation prefix, although on 
each step the prefix is really just a variation on what has gone before; 
you'd think it would keep track of what I just entered and use that to 
derive the next path option.  But no matter.  Even after explicitly 
entering the paths, the installation fails.

(Here I'm trying to install the packages into c:/ruby-rpa/ and related 
subdirectories)

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:181:in `mkdir': Invalid argument - 
c:/ruby-rpa/c: (Errno::EINVAL)

Has this been tested on Windows?  Is it not meant for Windows users?

Thanks,

James

P.S.

A recent blog entry at
http://www.thekode.net/blog/Tech/Ruby/rpa-packages.html
says,

"I have invited the people from ruby-talk to request packages for the 
Ruby Production Archive. So far the response has been a bit 
disappointing; seemingly no Rubyist wants to use software packaged with 
some care, or maybe itÃÔ just that the 114 packages currently available 
cover all needs?"

I'm sure Mauricio meant no disrespect, but this seems to imply that 
packages currently available from RubyForge and elsewhere are *not* 
packaged with some care.  No doubt some of these *are* fairly 
half-assed, but there may be many other reasons why people prefer not to 
use rpa; poor Windows support being a real possibility.