CPAN for HTTPD, was Re: mod_wombat

2006-11-21 Thread Paul Querna
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

CPAN for HTTPD, was Re: mod_wombat

2006-11-12 Thread Paul Querna
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

Re: CPAN for HTTPD, was Re: mod_wombat

2006-11-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: 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. Also, in almost every case CPAN-style systems focus on one language,