Shajith wrote:

> raa-install threw up the following for me. don't think it has got 
> anything to do with the fabric under question.
>
> ---8<---
> Downloading project data
> http://narf-lib.sourceforge.net/raa/raa-xml-compacted.xml
> /users18/seraph//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/raainstall/raaopen.rb:11:in 
> `open': uninitialized constant RAAInstall::URI (NameError)

yes, this is an incompatibility between 1.8 and raa-install.  try the 
RUBY_1_8_SKIM_MILK branch.

  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous / cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/narf-lib export -D now \
    -r RUBY_1_8_SKIM_MILK -d raa-install-skim raa-install

this will download a current version into an `raa-install-skim' 
directory.  let me know.

_why