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More packages are being added to the preliminary Ruby Production Archive on a daily
basis; here’s what I’ve packaged recently:
PrettyException:
a lib. to pretty-print exceptions in HTML format (very useful for the web.
devels out there)
MW::Template:
a templating library needed by PrettyException
I have also updated a number of packages to the latest releases; here are
the ones I’ve done in the last few days:
diff-lcs 1.1.0
rb-gsl 1.5.0
aeditor 1.5
sqlite 1.3.1
IOWA 0.9
Changes in rpa-base
I have been a bit too busy maintaining the repository and answering to too
many emails — if you’ve seen all the noise in
ruby-talk, you might want to listen to the (sadly) only
authoritative source of information on RPA at the moment: I will eventually
try to explain the goals better and reply to some of the statements made a
bit light-heartedly in ruby-talk.
I could still manage to fix a few bugs that affected the bootstrap phase of
rpa-base (e.g. it would fail to install itself under mingw) and implement a
few additional features (notably better proxy specification). Tarballs with
the ‘release critical’ fixes are available in Rubyforge. If you had
rpa-base already installed, you can upgrade it with
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