Aaron Patterson checked in a replacement to OpenURI that uses persistent connections, which significantly speeds up metadata updates.
Please test this out, especially if you are behind a proxy server. I'm going through the tracker, and have determined the following bugs should also be fixed for a 1.1 release. Any other nominations? `gem install` doesn't have proper exit code http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=17438&group_id=126&atid=575 `gem update --system --version` always updates to latest http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=16842&group_id=126&atid=575 rubygems 0.9.5 does not prefer local files over remote files when installing dependencies http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=15759&group_id=126&atid=575 `gem update` re-installs the same version of a gem if there is a newer version for a different platform http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=14780&group_id=126&atid=575 'gem update' does not properly install dependencies http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=17488&group_id=126&atid=575 Rubygems 0.9.5 doesn't take care of already installed gems for local installation http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=15790&group_id=126&atid=575 If these are easy, I will also look at: require_path order is unpredictable http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=14533&group_id=126&atid=575 Gem::SourceIndex does not honor GEM_PATH ordering http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=14816&group_id=126&atid=575 _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
