Simple, optional tarball cache support
Rationale: Both in development and in production, some usage patterns of ruby-build are slowed down by the download phase. In scenarios such as troubleshooting failing builds or with provisioning situations (chef, vagrant...) the repeated download is unnerving, bandwidth wasting and simply against etiquette towards tarball hosters. It also happens that some source sites happen to be down and in such cases it is helpful to be able to sideload sources to rbenv. Behavior: By default nothing changes. If the variable CACHE_PATH is set, then ruby-build will use that directory to store a successful download, and will check before downloading if the tarball is already there, in which case downloading is skipped. The file is first downloaded as before in the tmp subdirectory and only moved afterwards, thus ensuring consistency. There is no default cache path and the optional variable is to be set by hand, ensuring people know what they're doing when using ruby-build. Additionnally, rbenv-install will helpfully set CACHE_PATH if and only if a RBENV_ROOT/cache directory exists. Again, the directory has to be created manually. The CACHE_PATH variable internally ends with a slash to mutualize non-cached cases. Still, consistency is ensured whether or not a slash is provided externally. Notes: I'm not quite sure CACHE_PATH is a good name, maybe RUBY_BUILD_CACHE_PATH is better and less conflicting.
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