From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA17440; Fri, 7 May 2004 16:04:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16827 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 16:04:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.183]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i47E46SH010185 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 16:04:06 +0200 Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BM5xN-0004Q1-00; Fri, 07 May 2004 16:04:05 +0200 Received: from [80.129.104.20] (helo=gate.gerd-stolpmann.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BM5xN-0002KD-00; Fri, 07 May 2004 16:04:05 +0200 Received: from ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (ice.gerd-stolpmann.de [192.168.0.13]) by gate.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56855816; Fri, 7 May 2004 16:04:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ice.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDC22B032; Fri, 7 May 2004 16:04:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml development site From: Gerd Stolpmann To: Richard Jones Cc: "O'Caml Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20040507115613.GA19412@redhat.com> References: <20040507.124419.02551989.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <20040507113141.GA18068@complete.org> <20040507115613.GA19412@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1083938642.12331.79.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 16:04:03 +0200 X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:a6865a839c0178d9aa0ce41878507ea2 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 409B9756.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 fre:99 2004:99 2004:99 sourceforge:01 derivative:01 cpan:01 cpan:01 sourceforge:01 cpan-like:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 viktoriastr:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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