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  rpa install instiki rake rails ruvi    # or any of the other 100+ libs/apps

and get these packages plus all their dependencies installed in one go, and atomically (no garbage left, guaranteed), on a number of platforms (rpa-base has been tested on OSX, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, older RH, Win32: XP, 2K, cygwin and "Pragmatic installer", etc…)

A number of movies show rpa-base in action, while installing Instiki, Rake, Rlimit (a C extension), Rails, etc… I have some funny videos where syck crashes and rpa-base recovers just fine :)… I am fully expecting other projects to mimic the usage of animations to showcase apps, which I originally stole from Rails, especially since I have created them with yet another small Ruby script.

Call for help

RPA is a very ambitious project and I could really use some help. Here are some of the areas that need to be worked on:

• packaging (new software and package maintenance)
• website development (should provide package indexes, QA section, bugtracking, etc)
• setting up a permanent repository infrastructure
• cross-compilation and build automation

The 2 first ones in particular can be carried out with relative independence from rpa-base… I’d be really happy if you dropped a message to <batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com> (adding RPA to the subject will help get it past the spam filtering ;) or contacted me via IRC, batsman @ #ruby-lang on freenode.net.