Re: [cclan-list] Re: vn-cclan package naming conventions and repository organization

[Miles E. <mi...@ca...>]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:30, Erik Enge wrote:
> Miles Egan <mi...@ca...> writes:
>=20
> > There are some definite advantages of a central repository over a
> > collection of links.  Robustness, ease of implementation of support
> > tools, mirroring, etc.  Do you think it's just to much overhead?  It
> > does seem to work well for cpan.
>=20
> To add my two cents: I think there is great value to be added by a
> central respository.  As an end-user, I'd like to be able to browse
> packages by categories or by what implementation they support, etc.

I suppose this could be implemented either way, but it would be a lot
trickier to write code that trawled through all the links fetching all
the meta-information for each package than it would be if the rep was
centralized.

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Miles Egan <mi...@ca...>