Re: [sprog-users] Gear Repository

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

Hi Marc

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:52 -0400, Marc Slagle wrote:
> Is there a place where I can post or download additional gears?  If not 
> I would assume that CPAN is the place to go.  I have written an Excel to 
> CSV gear, but wanted to see if there was another one floating around 
> somewhere before trying to refine the one I'm working on.

Welcome to the bleeding edge.  To my knowledge, you are the first person
in the world apart from myself to successfully build a Sprog gear :-)
Congratulations!

Obviously my master plan for Sprog includes lots of different gears
written and maintained by lots of different people.  I have vaguely
considered the need for a gear repository (GearPAN?) but haven't given
much thought yet to how that would work.

In the long term, I want to build repository support directly into Sprog
so installing new gears is as easy as dragging a link from your browser
and dropping it into your palette.  Or a Find Gear dialog that searches
one or more repositories and lets you select gears for installation
directly from the search results.

In the immediate short term we need a way to share gear files manually.
I can add a page to the Sprog web site to provide links to user
contributed gears.  Do you have web space somewhere I could link to?  If
not, I could put files directly on the project site but that would make
it harder for you to upload new versions.

Right now, (as you know) Sprog only recognises gears in the
Sprog::Gear::* namespace.  It might be an idea if I added support for
the SprogEx::Gear::* namespace as well to distinguish contributed gears
from ones in the core distribution.  If anyone has a better idea then
speak up.

Probably best to hold off on uploading to CPAN until the namespace thing
is sorted.

Regards
Grant