Mauricio FernáÏdez wrote:

> rpa-base 0.2.1pre1 is now available at http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org . 
> Many of the most popular libraries/applications as per Rubyforge
> statistics (rails, rake, redcloth, activerecord, sqlite, log4r, copland,
> ruvi, to name a few) have been packaged for use with rpa-base 0.2.1pre1.
> 
> You can find a list of the 100+ packages at
>  http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?Packaged_Software
> 
> Screenshots and animations can be found at
>  http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?Rpa_Base_In_Action
> 
> rpa-base 0.2.1pre1 fixes some issues in the bootstrapping phase, which
> couldn't hence be solved through the normal self-upgrade mechanism.
> In addition to several other bugfixes, 0.2.1pre1 features better proxy
> support, isolation of unit tests run automatically when installing a
> lib/app, and improvements in the command-line tool.


I just tried this on Win2k.  First, as I have no faith in humanity, I
ignored your earlier suggestion to just use the default installation
path.  It installed OK, but there were issues in loading rpa-specific
files.  However, this gave me the chance to see that rpa only installs
into rpa-specific directories, so I felt better about trying again with
the default directory prefix.

On the next installation, all went well.  I poked around a bit with rpa
install, and was happy to see that rpa will not install a library if I
already have it.


Querying the repository is easy, too.  Am I correct that

  rpa query .

returns a list of all available ports?

Is there a way to use globs or regexen?  If I run

  rpa  query  web

I get back more than just ports with 'web' in their name.

Anyway, looks good.

Thanks,

James