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Date: | 2004-05-07 (14:04) |
From: | Gerd Stolpmann <info@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] OCaml development site |
On Fre, 2004-05-07 at 13:56, Richard Jones wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 06:31:41AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > * Are the services provided by these tools enough for you? If not, > > > please be specific. > > > > I'm not sure that a SourceForge derivative is really the right tool for > > a CPAN alternative. Those tools are more designed to facilitate > > development of individual projects rather than to facilitate managing a > > massive repository of related projects. > > Yup, I think the idea is a little different from CPAN. It's more like > an alternative place to host projects which isn't Savannah (because of > its well-publicised failures) or Sourceforge (depends on a company > which may well go out of business). > > Of course, a CPAN-like repository could also happen, but I guess it > would have to be part of GODI now, with a way to upload source code as > well. I would be quite glad if it were not part of GODI. Hosting projects is something different than hosting packages for a certain package manager. And currently, GODI does not have the capacity to do all. I am also convinced that the integrated CPAN way is not the right way for ocaml, it is too complex for a non-scripting language. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners