Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> I am personally +0 on the idea, but my only reservation is that
> we have too many eggs in one basket already. One of these days,
> some kind soul will have the energy to build a CPAN-like module
> registry and distribution mechanism.
We talked about this in good detail back at ApacheCon EU 2005. Its not
going anywhere IMO.
It sounds like a great idea, except that for 95% of users, they will get
httpd via apt-get, yum, a CD, ports, or some other package system.
Another CPAN-like system is generally a waste when there are already
many great packaging systems out there.
Successful CPAN-like systems were mostly started back when package
management was an enormous pain. It still is on some platforms
*cough*solaris*cough*, but they are generally the exception these days.
-Paul
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