From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T02:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:18:03PM +0900, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi wrote:

> > 1) Find a more accessible domain name.  www.ruby-lang.org/raa is not as 
> > easy to remember as www.cpan.org.  Unfortunatelly 
> > (ruby|cran|raa).(org|net) are all taken.
> 
> How do you feel raa.ruby-lang.org ?


Sounds great.  I like it.


> > 3) RAA is hard to browse.  I think that a setup of the style of
> > www.search.cpan.org is best.
> 
> I don't use CPAN modules so I seldom use CPAN search...
> 
> What is the most significant point of all the features which
> CPAN search have and RAA don't have, do you think?  We'll
> change it better and better untill RAA.succ comes.

In Gavin's response, points 1., 2., and 4. are essentially what I had in 
mind.  I think they would make a big difference.  I liked all his other 
points as well.

-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137