From: Bob X <bobx@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T07:51:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and CPAN - a note from Jarkko Hietaniemi

"MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:3dd175ce$0$63865$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk...
<snip>
> Perhaps there should be an official and an uoffical module scope e.g.
> Alt::Test::Unit vs. Test::Unit such that major important names are not
> introduced without consensus.
>
> Mikkel

We could have one official repository. Other repositories can be created by
individuals and the end-user could use an interface to get those. For
instance in my PPM I have the following:

ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] DADA
[4] ROTH
ppm>

The first two are *official* Perl repositories. The second two I added
because they contain modules that I want. If you write the descriptor, in
say XML, then you could handle OS and installation stuff as well as package
tracking and version verification.

Bob