Re: modules

Zeugswetter Andreas OSB SD wrote:
>>> The closest analogy to what I'm thinking is the perl CPAN 
>>>       
>> or ruby gems.
>>     
>
> I think this is more a developer thing. I don't think an ISP would want
> all that automagic (and certainly does not do that for joe user).
>   


I think you are missing an essential part of the vision. This is not 
just targetted at developers. Binary distro authors typically include a 
huge number of CPAN modules as well as core Perl, and ISPs typically 
install them. We want to have something CPAN-like so we can get the same 
effect.

At any rate, that's a bit blue sky right now. I haven't seen any 
disagreement with our kissing "contrib" goodbye as a name, so let's work 
on that. Unfortunately, that's going to involve a bit of pain, including 
in the buildfarm, whose client relies on the name. I'll go to work on 
fixing that, and we can get a new version out so when we make the switch 
the buildfarm doesn't go dark.

cheers

andrew