Re: Prothon and a CPAN-like archive

Jonathan Gardner wrote:

> I've always thought that a zero-install method would be the way to
> go. We would reference modules by a URL, and if it was installed, we
> would just use our cached copy. If it wasn't, we would fetch it from
> the URL and install it right away. We can build in security and
> reliability as well as "pre-fetching" modules. I think we can assume
> nowadays that all computers are connected to some kind of network.

Don't forget the Debian apt-get model.  We happen to have a Debian guru in
out midst.  Ben Collins was recently the head of Debian.