Keep the sources cached

[Sephi-Chan]

Hello,

I tried ruby-build along with rbenv and I like it but I think it would be even better if it was able to cache the source code of a ruby version.

For instance, today I rebuilt my Ruby 1.9.3 many times (the first time, the second time since I din't have zlib, the third time since I didn't have openssl compilation option) and the download step is quite long and useless. I would be glad to have some cache directory in .rbenv to shorten this step.

What do you think about that? Can I help?

[jeremy]

It'd be helpful to hang on to the tarball / git clone until it's successfully installed, but that requires significantly reworking the internals.

Life is very simple now because the entire build process is sandboxed to one temp dir, no external paths, so cleanup means just deleting that dir.

So: I'm not sure the complexity is worth it (but I'd love to be wrong about that)

[Sephi-Chan]

So bad… :(

I had to compile Ruby again to add readline compilation option.
No easier/shorter way than recompiling Ruby for this kind of stuff?

[sstephenson]

Let's move the conversation over to #143. Closing this issue.