From: Piers Harding <piers@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T23:11:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Distribution not CPAN Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

Fair comment.  I must admit to not being that conversant with Debian,
but I guess the main thing that I am driving at is that Ruby could
benefit from a lot of what the CPAN infrastructure has to offer, and the
model by which it has developed has been thru a classic ( and healthy )
Open Source Bazaar style development cycle.

I really want to see Ruby succeed, as it has an enormous amount to
offer, but not openly accepting and learning and embracing the good
things that can be learnt from other Languages, would be a terrible
mistake.

Cheers.


On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:30:07AM +0900, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> Piers Harding <piers@ompa.net> writes:
> 
> > I agree with you that ultimately distributions, and "certified
> > collections" of packages are probably an ultimate goal, but I would
> > suggest that one reason why this works for RedHat is that RedHat is a
> > commercial entity, and they (as an entity) have the man power/time and
> > the money to do it.  
> 
> Debian is not a commercial entity and yet is the distribution with the
> best package management (way better than Red Hat anyway).
> 
> 
> Massimiliano