From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93272BBAF for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:07:42 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au0AABJuGEvU4xEIkWdsb2JhbACBTpo5AQEBAQkLCgcTA7kSAoQwBIFn X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,340,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="37976631" Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Dec 2009 11:07:42 +0100 Received: from office1.lan.sumadev.de (dslb-188-097-009-224.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.97.9.224]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MYtGN-1Nd7S439gx-00V6sz; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:06:11 +0100 Received: from [192.168.5.104] (dslb-188-097-009-224.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.97.9.224]) by office1.lan.sumadev.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F2EDC0E9B; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:06:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: What is CPAN? (was: Re: [Caml-list] Hoogle for Ocaml) From: Gerd Stolpmann To: rixed@happyleptic.org Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20091203212127.GB16114@yeeloong> References: <20091203161710.GA14880@annexia.org> <20091203165100.GA17415@fp-desktop.fr.evistel.com> <20091203180036.GA17732@annexia.org> <1259869258.15350.46.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20091203212127.GB16114@yeeloong> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:11:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1259885498.15350.67.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/LoomS+WY17iXX4C9szXFy9sejWSrLPvP3Po4 CI15rwFi6B3bfdaO1+gQHOMmLQUzJWcnG+m6DcAUIZ/Obwn+Tp HmGrik6BZAkBwcqMKR3QQ== X-Spam: no; 0.00; cpan:01 ocaml:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 gerd:01 donnerstag:01 tarball:01 tarballs:01 makefiles:01 ocaml:01 cpan:01 command-line:01 -help:01 stolpmann:01 darmstadt:01 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 ------------------------------------------------------------