I was thinking about CPAN. They have download stuff, but it installs very easily. I wonder if we should allow gborg projects to interface to our configure output in a way that makes it easier for them to be installed.
Now that idea I like. The R project also has something similar that allows a standard R command to download, compile, and install their equivalent to contrib packages. They even have an automated system of testing the contributed packages to ensure they work. If the package doesn't meet certain standards, it is automatically dropped from the link list on the download page. See:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.pdf
if you're interested. Very impressive, but also a huge amount of work to set up.
The gborg is easy for development and releasing, but loses in the easy-of-use category sometimes.
I agree.
Joe
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