From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T09:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Our own CPAN

Chris Pine wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pat Eyler" <pate@red-bean.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Our own CPAN
> 
> How about www.freepan.org go, look, contribute...
> -pate
> ----------------------------
> 
> Um... didn't I just say that??
> 
> :)
> 
> Chris

yes, you did... btw, how about freepan? <jk>

on a more serious note, two things that matter more for me than a single 
repository site:

1) more hierarchical naming of modules/packages. Net::*, Lang::EN:*, 
Math::*, etc. are so nice and "readable". as there will be hundreds to 
thousands of distributed packages, the first level or first two levels 
of the namespace should indicate category.

2) a standard way to build, test, and install modules (Python's 
distutils-like, Perl's MakeMaker+h2xs);

if i have to choose only one, i'll live with only #1. naming, naming, 
naming... i'm sure simon cozens will agree to this :-)

-- 
dave