On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Geir Hedemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may have different information than I do. I would gladly learn of > something simpler and better. It is perhaps not so much that we have simpler ideas. You are totally right that it is a very complex topic. Trust us, both PeterN and I have spent a considerable amount of time, trying to "fix" Maven-style repositories. But in Qi4j, we have so much more information about the application being created, thanks to the fairly rigid structures required, from Application to individual Methods. This allows for a LOT more meta info to be made available and searchable. Another thing I think Maven (I don't know how CPAN works) does totally wrong is the "centralized repo" concept. It is a scalability flaw of massive proportions, both in terms of needed infrastructure, as well as man-power required to keep it running and up-to-date. What we need is a fully distributed system with trust management built-in, in a easy, I mean REAL easy, to use fashion, and then utilize resources like Yahoo and Google to expose the meta info, but the resources themselves downloadable from anywhere the publisher chooses. There are a few things we actually need to look into real soon; 1. Type versioning. 2. Licensing control. 3. Trust management. And make that a required part of regular development. The RDF exposure is going to be a natural part, since we pretty much have that in place already. Just need to fine-tune the structures a bit. And again; This is not easy and will probably require a few iteration before getting "good enough". Cheers Niclas _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
