RubyForge at 600 projects and counting...
Richard Kilmer
registered accounts. Keep those ideas (and projects) coming folks and we
will upgrade her to handle it.
We also want to thank our mirrors for handling the true brunt of the load.
The RubyForge Team
Curt Hibbs
Pretty amazing... especially if you consider that RubyForge opened for
business only about a year and a half ago!
Curt
Richard Lyman
How many do we have to go before we can say that we have a 'CPAN'?
-Rich
Berger, Daniel
B. K. Oxley (binkley)
> How many do we have to go before we can say that we have a 'CPAN'?
Wouldn't that be a CRAN?
The original model for CPAN was the CTAN for TeX.
Cheers,
--binkley
Berger, Daniel
> From: Richard Lyman [mailto:lym...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:34 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: RubyForge at 600 projects and counting...
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2005 5:01 AM, Curt Hibbs <cu...@hibbs.com> wrote:
> > Richard Kilmer wrote:
> > > Tom just activated the 600th project on RubyForge! That
> and 1,922
> > > registered accounts. Keep those ideas (and projects)
> coming folks
> > > and we will upgrade her to handle it.
> > >
> > > We also want to thank our mirrors for handling the true
> brunt of the
> > > load.
> >
> > Pretty amazing... especially if you consider that RubyForge
> opened for
> > business only about a year and a half ago!
> >
> > Curt
> >
>
When RAA and RubyForge merge, then we have CPAN.
Dan
Hal Fulton
>>
>>How many do we have to go before we can say that we have a 'CPAN'?
>
>
> When RAA and RubyForge merge, then we have CPAN.
>
I don't think they're going to merge as such, but I do hope
they start talking to each other better.
Are the canonical names unique across the two?
Hal
David Moreno Garza
> > How many do we have to go before we can say that we have a 'CPAN'?
>
> Wouldn't that be a CRAN?
>
> The original model for CPAN was the CTAN for TeX.
Bring CRAN to life!
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David Moreno Garza
> > The original model for CPAN was the CTAN for TeX.
>
> Bring CRAN to life!
Replying to myself:
http://cran.r-project.org/
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Matt Lawrence
> Bring CRAN to life!
But then the GEM system will need to be rewritten to support CRANberrys.
-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_
Tom Copeland
> Are the canonical names unique across the two?
Nope...
Tom
Richard Lyman
I guess I was asking more about a number... I have no idea how many
'packages' CPAN has.
1200? 1800? Unknown?
I figured there was somebody here who could give a close estimate...
-Rich
Richard Lyman
I should look around a bit more before I start to blabber.
I found this page after a bit of googling:
http://www.cpan.org/indices/du-k.gz
.. so what part do we care about comparing ourselves to? I know we're
not a Perl clone, but it seems like we'd have won a major 'battle' in
PR if we can say (in some shape or form) that we have a 'collection'
as large as CPAN.
-Rich
Richard Kilmer
On 4/8/05 2:01 PM, "Richard Lyman" <lym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess I was asking more about a number... I have no idea how many
> 'packages' CPAN has.
>
> 1200? 1800? Unknown?
>
> I figured there was somebody here who could give a close estimate...
CPAN -
2005-04-08 online since 1995-10-26
2823 MB 271 mirrors
4273 authors 7863 modules
Berger, Daniel
> From: Richard Lyman [mailto:lym...@gmail.com]
>
> I found this page after a bit of googling:
>
> http://www.cpan.org/indices/du-k.gz
>
> ... so what part do we care about comparing ourselves to? I
> know we're not a Perl clone, but it seems like we'd have won
> a major 'battle' in PR if we can say (in some shape or form)
> that we have a 'collection' as large as CPAN.
>
> -Rich
I'll take quality over quantity any day. :)
Ruby's library will probably never be as large as CPAN for a few
reasons.
* Several modules just don't make sense and/or aren't needed in Ruby
(e.g. most modules that start with "Class::").
* There is often overlap in functionality that Ruby has done a pretty
good job of avoiding so far.
* Some modules that are still external in Perl are part of the stdlib in
Ruby (e.g. libwww).
* The Ruby community doesn't do "Acme::" modules (and I hope it stays
that way).
I'd say only about 1/3 of the modules on CPAN are actually "good"
(though some are exceptional, e.g. DBI). The rest are outdated,
redundant, very highly specialized, unused or just plain suck. No, I
don't have anything to back that up. Just a general impression after
using Perl as my primary language for several years.
Regards,
Dan
tony summerfelt
>> > Tom just activated the 600th project on RubyForge! That and 1,922
>How many do we have to go before we can say that we have a 'CPAN'?
how many is it once the dead links are cleared out?
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