From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-04-17T00:42:48+09:00
Subject: Re: http://rubypan.org/

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:16:31PM +0900, 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:
> >>> * <http://rubypan.org/
> >>>
> >>> 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.

The database contains information about all releases, it just isn't
displayed.

I think source viewing would be best accomplished via the respective
gem's code repository.  Once we have the SCM info in the gemspec I will link
to it.

I will not tackle a bug tracking feature as that doesn't make sense.
Everyone uses their own bugtracker, Rubyforge, Lighthouse, Trac, etc.
If the gemspec pointed at the canonical bug tracker, I would link to it.

I might add ratings.

> Are you planning on adding features like this? Or are you limiting
> rubypan to just searching?

Right now, just search.  But if you would like more features, the
repository is here:

  http://github.com/tenderlove/rubypan/tree/master

It is a very simple rails app, and the README should get you up and
running.  Please submit patches.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/