I meant this for public consumption and sent it privately by mistake.
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On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:03, Michael Davey - Sun UK Support Engineer
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> Henri Yandell wrote:
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> > I noticed this yesterday Michael after wondering 'who really does own cjan.org'.
> > Have you investigated the JJAR component with respect to cjan?
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> Yes. It is my personal hope that the CJAN developers will enhance JJAR such
> that it becomes the reference implementation for a CJAN client, with JJAR
> continuing to be hosted by Apache, and the server-side being developed on
> SourceForge. This would of course require the backing of the Jakarta
> community ;)
I took a peek at the cjan repository and there wasn't much there other
than logos and some php scripts? And the download section doesn't go
anywhere.
CPAN also deals with distributions and not JARs. CPAN and generally the
tools that are used to make CPAN work are based on the principle of a
common descriptor for a perl project. These issues are being looked at
by two projects here: Gump and Maven. Gump has a project descriptor and
so does Maven and something will fall out of these two projects. And
Maven deals with building projects in a reliable manner with a common
format (much the same way perl packages are structured) which I think is
a critical part of making something like a CJAN work.
Right there is a primitive archive here that Maven-based projects use to
build but some critical things like project naming and versioning need
to be dealt with. Then there is the whole infrastructure: I have tried
to contact some of the CPAN people to get an overview of what they are
doing and I think the Avalon group have the tools to build the
distribution layer. IMO, JJAR is not adequate to deal with something on
the scale of CPAN, you need the project information to generate useful
indices, links to resources and all the other things that make
cross-project navigation/building easy for users.
I couldn't find much in the way of documentation on the cjan site, and
I'm writing up a CJAN type plan as part of Maven and I'm very interested
in hearing how you think the infrastructure would work.
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