[Nitro] [OT] Roll n' Rain

[James Britt]

TRANS wrote:

>>>...
>>>While Rain can download drop packages from the internet (on the fly
>>>too). I haven't added dependency handling. I'm not sure about that
>>>yet. I sometimes think it would be nice to revive RPA to handle this
>>>side of things.
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>>Have you thought about authentication and code signing?
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> I'd like to work that in eventually, yes. Want to do?

Ha ha ha!

:)

Actually, it's an interesting problem, but I've no time lately.

What do other, similar tools do?  Is an MD5 signature enough?

It's not a critical issue for me; I see a real value in having a central 
server in a known subnet serving up code to distributed apps, where 
trust is already established.

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>>Mighty contentious claim there.
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> Well, I've been talking about it for awhile and Austin's been giving
> me a hard time about for just as long. So I've had incentive ;)

But you know the matter is only partly technical. There is an installed 
gems user base, a growing popularity (or at least familiarity) with 
gems, and an expectation that gems will get rolled into Ruby code at 
some point.



-- 
James Britt

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is 
not worth knowing."
   - A. Perlis