On 26 February 2013 19:06, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > 2013/2/26 Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com>: >> On 26 February 2013 18:33, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> But it is true that GitHub is to SmalltakHub what npm/gem is to...? >> >> No. GitHub and SmalltalkHub are repositories. Rubygems for Ruby (or >> clojars for Clojure, or CPAN for Perl) - are like SqueakMap - catalogs >> that point to packages/applications. > > That's exactly what I said, that GitHub and SmalltalkHub are analogous. > But we also need something like rubygems or npm or CPAN. > > I never used SqueakMap, so I can't tell. But if it is there, why is it > not being used?
That's an excellent question, and one that Chris Muller and I would love an answer to. Partly it's because it's old and crufty. It could do with a rewrite, to be honest. But the idea is sound - the one place to go to find packages - and it works _today_. frank
