In article <20021108204309.GA49642 / rysa.inetz.com>,
why the lucky stiff  <ruby-talk / whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> JamesBritt (james / jamesbritt.com) wrote:
>> BTW, the entire RAA XML file is around 14K lines.  Maybe I missed it in your
>> original post, but why do you want to read the entire thing, and how
>often would
>> you want to do it?
>
>I just sent a patch to Tom which will use Apache's ETag header to detect
>any changes and cache the XML file once it's been pulled.  This
>significantly aleviates the amount of data raa-install is pulling down
>the line.
>
>> Some packages are simple *.rb files, though.  Rimport, for example.
>
>I wonder.  Is it fair to simply install these directly in
>$prefix/lib/ruby/site_ruby/$version? (aka Config::CONFIG['sitelibdir']) 
>
What if we either have it ask the user if that's ok or have a commandline 
option which will do that?


Phil