On 29 Jul 2000 10:19:36 +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:13:59 +0100, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > One thing that came up during the meeting was that there should be > > one OSD per dist which covers all implementatons. I was skeptical > > of this at the time, but now having thought a bit more I think it > > would work. > >I'd really like to keep the way CPAN is working now, just start using >well specified metadata for it. The OSD probably promises too much. In >practice it (well, its cousin in law PPD) only has proofed working for >one architecture -- or are there any other known places it ever was >used? It works on Solaris, Linux and Windows. (ActiveState maintains PPM repositories for all three platforms.) Sarathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
