Re: Re: vn-cclan package naming conventions and repository organization
Miles Egan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.cclan.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:30, Erik Enge wrote: > Miles Egan <[email protected]> writes: > > > There are some definite advantages of a central repository over a > > collection of links. Robustness, ease of implementation of support > > tools, mirroring, etc. Do you think it's just to much overhead? It > > does seem to work well for cpan. > > To add my two cents: I think there is great value to be added by a > central respository. As an end-user, I'd like to be able to browse > packages by categories or by what implementation they support, etc. I suppose this could be implemented either way, but it would be a lot trickier to write code that trawled through all the links fetching all the meta-information for each package than it would be if the rep was centralized. -- Miles Egan <[email protected]>
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