Which makes me think a useful feature for a packaging system would be
some way to track the currency of a package, maybe with a “last
certified current” metadata field that gets regularly updated even if
nothing in the package actually changes. That way, if you’re the
maintainer, you update it say once a day, whereas if you’ve mirrored
someone else’s package, you don’t change it at all.
martin
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Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote:
On Saturday, February 7, 2004, 1:06:19 AM, Martin wrote:
OK feel free to call me an idiot here, but what versions of
html-parser and htmltools are you running?
I got my stuff from http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/ and its linked
resources.
Heh. Let’s first adopt just any packaging system for Ruby, then worry about
features like these 
Although much has been written on this topic, last
time I checked this was still undecided.
(Btw, I agree that this could be useful.)
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 08:39:59PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
Which makes me think a useful feature for a packaging system would be
some way to track the currency of a package, maybe with a “last
certified current” metadata field that gets regularly updated even if
nothing in the package actually changes. That way, if you’re the
maintainer, you update it say once a day, whereas if you’ve mirrored
someone else’s package, you don’t change it at all.
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