On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Paul Stadig wrote:
> > Hey Drew, > I'd like to see this come to fruition, and help administer if needed. I'll volunteer some time to help admin as well. > > > Coming from Ruby (most recently) I may have a Ruby bias, but I think > that RubyForge has been a great boon to the Ruby community. It is nice > to be able to go to a single site (or do a google site: search) to > find Ruby projects. Of course there was also RAA, and now GitHub seems > to be splintering things as well, but I don't mean to get into all > that. I think at least for this stage of the language and community > development, Clojure would benefit from having a kind of "defacto" > place to go to find libraries. CLiki and Python's PyPI provide a standard place to find libraries for their respective languages without providing project management tools - it serves as an index only. Something like that for Clojure would be great. > > > As a somewhat secondary issue, I would also like see a gem like system > for Clojure, and I have some ideas about how it might work in Clojure. > I think it's too early, and Clojure has to get to the point where it > is more stable, with numbered releases, and it has a stable command > line script that comes baked in. When the time is right though, I > think there should be some support for building Clojure "gems" (or at > least indexing) on the server, like GitHub does with Ruby gems. Package and dependency management is a "fun" problem, hopefully we can learn from others and come up with something appropriate. -Matt > Obviously, the standard (version control, tickets, mailing list, web > page, etc.) would be peachy. > > > Paul > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
