From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24591 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jzawodn@wcnet.org (Jeremy D. Zawodny) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Where do you get your elisp? Date: 03 Aug 1999 21:24:41 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199908031936.PAA85527@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162130 9536 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dave@bfnet.com, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17660 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:31:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAB21973; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:23:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 03 Aug 1999 20:22:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11438 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:22:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from woodyjr.wcnet.org (woodyjr.wcnet.org [205.133.170.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17315 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:21:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from peach.z.org. (dialup-28.ts-1.omni.tol.glasscity.net [208.13.24.28]) by woodyjr.wcnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04888; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:21:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Edward J. Sabol" X-Auto-Copy-In: 1999-07 In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:36:10 -0400 (EDT)" Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070066 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.66) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24591 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24591 "Edward J. Sabol" writes: > I think the current state of elisp archiving is pretty sad. The elisp user > *and* developer communities badly need the equivalent of Perl's impressive > Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN). [snip] > Unfortunately, I don't have the time or resources to fix it. Hm. I may have a bit of free time on my hands... I might be able to offer the services of a machine and some of my time to build a browsable archive. (I've suffered the pains of unsuccessfully trying to find a few lisp packages too many times. DejaNews is good, but not always the best way to do it.) I just don't know which would be more appropriate: (1) An index-only approach (like www.freshmeat.net) or (2) Something like CPAN (distributed copies of the actual code) Advantages and disadvantages either way. Maybe a hybrid. Maybe we could just try and convince would-be Lisp hackers to use Freshmeat? Or do to many people not have a place where they can put their code (http or ftp server). Hm. Ideas? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny Web Geek, Perl Hacker, etc. http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/ jzawodn@wcnet.org 9:20pm up 19 days, 21:22, 6 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.08