From: Daniel Berger Date: 2009-04-16T21:51:39+09:00 Subject: Re: http://rubypan.org/ Hartog C. de Mik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 03:01:59PM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote: >> On Apr 15, 2009, at 21:50, Roger Pack wrote: >>>> * >>> >>>> RubyPAN dot org is like CPAN dot org but for Ruby Gems. The source >>>> for >>>> rubypan.org is located here: >>> perhaps you can explain to use what CPAN is/does and its usefulness? >> http://www.google.com/search?q=cpan isn't enough? > > Looks nice enough, but I think your missing a whole lot of features > CPAN has (that makes it CPAN / Useful) and rubypan doesn't > have. Backlog of releases, source viewing, links to other tools (like; > distribution rating, bugtracking, etc) are just a few of them. Nice job on rubypan. I don't think bug tracking would be worthwhile since many people are already using RF's tracker or Trac or whatnot. Distribution rating wouldn't be bad, but it seems gemtacular.com went defunct. Maybe it could be integrated directly. Regards, Dan