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Alex Shinn <foof@synthcode.com> writes: > >>>>> "MJ" == MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > MJ> How are you defining success? To me, CPAN tends to look rather > MJ> like the librarians were asleep while stock intake occurred. If > MJ> we can avoid that problem, we will have done well. > > Success in managing 3584 module names, and having those names mostly > make sense and be easy to use. Err... sensibility of the names and usability of the code are orthogonal issues, aren't they? > Success in a very convenient online search mechanism This is addressable within the SRFI infrastructure > and automated installation using those names. This is *not*. Some SRFIs require changes to implementation run-times. david rush -- Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. -- What is Property? (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)