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Date: | 2009-12-04 (10:07) |
From: | Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@g...> |
Subject: | Re: What is CPAN? (was: Re: [Caml-list] Hoogle for Ocaml) |
Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 21:21 +0000 schrieb rixed@happyleptic.org: > > > (1) A network of redundant mirrors which means you can always get the > > > tarball you need, even when the original site is down: > > If I understand correctly, GODI site does not store any of the source > tarballs, but the makefiles download the sources directly from their > respective home, does it ? Can't we use the MASTER_SITE_BACKUP make > variables to have one or several backup sites ? There are backups, e.g. http://godi-backup2.camlcity.org/ > > > (3) An excellent search tool: What's wrong with GODI search? (Other than that it isn't comprehensive.) > > Ok. > > > > (4) A central namespace registry for Perl modules. Once someone has > > > the name 'Net::FTPServer', if you want to write an FTP server, you > > > know you need to give it a different name. > > Ok ; unfortunately no such authority is required to name the few > (compared to perl) ocaml libraries. > > > > (5) A testing network. > > > (6) A place where you can browse everything that Perl supports: > > That would be nice to have in Godi as well. > > > > (7) A command line tool to download and install CPAN modules: > > I like godi_console (despite laking fancy colors :-), although I'd > like a simpler command line tool to be available as well. You can also use godi_console as command-line tool, try godi_console -help. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann, Bad Nauheimer Str.3, 64289 Darmstadt,Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------