Re: magical site for working on common code

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

On 01/04/2011 11:48 AM, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> This is a new topic as Reply on Quae's remark. Quae wrote:
>
> > So... in lack of this magical site for working on common code, I
> > submit for consideration a suitable array implementation:
>
> Might this "magic site for working on common code" be exactly what we
> might want for the "standard library"?
>
> That is a website where you can quickly view through existing code if
> a piece is useable for you, and then just require() that piece, since
> you have a recent source ball of it installed? A website where the
> code is very well documented? You know of any software package that
> can function as such? Can git/svn be suitable for this or isn't it?

Perhaps CLAN - Comprehensive Lua Archive Network :)

... or similar.

At least, I think with a platform like CPAN for publishing and reviewing 
modules, perhaps a "Best Practises for Writing Lua Modules" document, 
and rich documentation along with packaging, deployment and integrated 
testing, the potential for a grassroots evolution of the standard 
libraries becomes feasible. I think a lot can be learned for how the 
Perl community is doing it (~21665 distributions and counting, has to 
say something).

Cheers,
Richard