Michael Vehrs writes: > On 02/20/2017 09:41 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Michael Vehrs <michael.bursc...@gmx.de> writes: >> >>> As a late-comer to this discussion, here are my two cents. The thing I >>> miss most is a central package repository like Eggs Unlimited >>> (http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html), or the >>> Racket Package List (http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/), or CPAN, of course. >>> Sure, a bespoke package manager might be nifty, but a single curated >>> list of packages would be a game-changer. >> In theory we have guildhall for this: https://github.com/ijp/guildhall > > In theory, yes. But there isn't actually very much available in the > repository.
I think the main reasons for that are (a) that it’s unmaintained (you can’t just get your package added), (b) that it’s underdocumented (it doesn’t say how to add a package or create a repo in less than 5 steps), and (c) that there is no web interface for uploading a package. >> In practice it does not provide a web interface for uploading packages. >> >> If you want to do something truly exciting, you could take wingos fibers >> and build a high performance web interface for guildhall with them. > > High performance is not really important in this case. We are not > talking about gazillions of npm packages. That’s true. That’s why I wrote exciting :) You could also use the existing (web server) tools to build such a site. Best wishes, Arne
