Roy T. Fielding wrote:
I am personally +0 on the idea, but my only reservation is that we have too many eggs in one basket already. One of these days, some kind soul will have the energy to build a CPAN-like module registry and distribution mechanism.
We talked about this in good detail back at ApacheCon EU 2005. Its not going anywhere IMO. It sounds like a great idea, except that for 95% of users, they will get httpd via apt-get, yum, a CD, ports, or some other package system. Another CPAN-like system is generally a waste when there are already many great packaging systems out there. Successful CPAN-like systems were mostly started back when package management was an enormous pain. It still is on some platforms *cough*solaris*cough*, but they are generally the exception these days. -Paul
