tphyahoo wrote:
I think people want something like CPAN. This implies a centralized "official" repository
I agree. I think we also need a notion of a canonical standard package for each popular category. True, it is sometimes nice to have a lot of alternatives to choose from. And to be able to specify the resulting package dependencies. But other times that is not good. If you need to include a certain functionality in your program, sometimes the most important factors are that it is least likely to cause package conflicts for the widest possible audience, or that the widest possible audience will easily understand how it works, or that it will integrate well with a wide variety of other services. In a CPAN-like world that can be very difficult. -Yitz