Today mono.baselabs.org is happy to "officially" announce its new initiative: CSAM, the C Sharp Archived Modules. A few pages were already online for a few days, but today we have uploaded the initial control scripts to the webserver and we now are ready to accept authors and their modules.
CSAM: the C Sharp Archived Modules After having enjoyed the great advantages of a comprehensive resource of third party Perl modules, I believe we should kick-off such a great tool for C# too. Looking back at a great example (CPAN) I've tried to bring together the first small steps towards a unified platform for C# modules. On this platform authors can release and present their C# software to the public and other developers can find clean, consistently organized modules of a higher level than the native class libraries. Last week a single page was added to the mono.baselabs.org website explaining in very few words what we were up to. Less than 24 hours later two author account requests were received. This relatively huge response urged us to build scripts that authors could use to upload and manage their projects. Where are we today ... ? As of today authors can use very basic tools to present their work to the public. A small subset of functionality is active, but the basics are there. I'm sure there are still a few bugs to be squashed and things will go wrong from time to time. But, today I'll send out the first author accounts, and together with them we'll upload their first releases of their first CSAM modules, which you will see appear on the CSAM webpages (http://mono.baselabs.org/CSAM/) rather soon now. ... and where are we going ? We hope to see more authors of C# modules submit their work to CSAM. It would be nice to have that central repository of good C# modules that everybody can use. In the mean time I'll be expanding the functionalities of CSAM to both authors and developers. Things like a project-level CVS repository, Bugzilla support, mailinglists, custom presentation webspace are on my mind. But surely also nightly snapshots, automated builds and tests should become common tools. One thing we would also like to consider is downloadable versions of groups of projects, eg. all projects in the CSAM.Net namespace, or even the entire CSAM namespace, which would offer you all CSAM functionality in one DLL. To finish this off we would off course like to have a module and/or application to interface to the CSAM repository and let you update your modules, as new releases are ready for grabs. As I said before, there is still a lot of work to be done. But, do visit the CSAM site (http://mono.baselabs.org/CSAM/) and check the evolution of CSAM over the coming days, weeks and months as we really kick-start this project with the first C# modules. If you want to help out, please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], read the (preliminary) CSAM developers guide lines at http://mono.baselabs.org/CSAM/developer_guide_lines.bml, or just take a look around. All feedback, ideas, ... are greatly appreciated. greetz, Christophe VG -- Supporting the Mono project, and helping you... http://mono.baselabs.org http://mono.baselabs.org/CSAM *** *** "First steps" building guides, CSAM the C Sharp Archived Modules daily Mono RPMS, C# tutorial,... _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
