On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 09:46 -0500, Jim Weirich wrote: > Tom, here is the software to generate the rubygems server index files. > The script is index_gem_repository.rb and is called as follows: > > index_gem_repository.rb -d REPO_DIRECTORY > > Where REPO_DIRECTORY is where the yaml file is currently placed. In > addition to the standard yaml/yaml.Z files produced, it will also > produce a quick directory containing each gem spec individually zipped > and ready for incremental downloads. > > If you want to see output while the script runs, just include a > --verbose option. There's a --help option too. > > Although this will be part of the gem 0.9.0 release, I've tested it with > version 0.8.0 and it will work fine, so you don't have to upgrade your > entire gem setup on the machine to try this out. > > I've tested this quite a bit on my personal gem repository and am > confident it won't break existing gem downloads, it probably a good a > idea keep the old indexing software around (just in case :). > > Once you start running this on RubyForge, I will put together a beta > release of gems for limited distribution for testing the incremental > downloads.
Super! That sounds great, it sure would be nice to get the index a bit smaller. OK, I'll see if I can get this in place. Thanks, Tom _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
