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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Monday 07 January 2008 12:40:38 Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> On 11:33:32 2008-01-07 "Alexander Tsamutali" <astsmtl AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/1/7, Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT sourcemage.org>:
> > > Well, hello everyone!
> > >
> > > Yesterday I decided to change the name of this section cause we need
> > > something more equal for python too :P
> > >
> > > Look, there are perl-cpan and php-pear. CPAN and PEAR are the
> > > collections of packages (source distros, or call it anyhow) for these
> > > langs.. So I want the same name for our pythonic section.
> > >
> > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi <- it's official name of it:
> > > The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python
> > > programming language. There are currently 3275 packages here.
> > >
> > > So -- your thoughts and opinions..
> >
> > Not a long ago i had created section for haskell libraries. I didn't
> > found any good reason to call this section haskell-hackagedb or
> > something like that so i called it just haskell. I think that using
> > cpan, pear, pypi, hackagedb in section names is bad, because our
> > sections are not connected with these projects. So i prefer names like
> > haskell or python-devel instead of perl-cpan, php-pear.
>
> The only reason why "haskell" as a section is ok is cause there is no
> "haskell" spell else you would get:
>
> gaze version haskell <-- versions of all spells in said section instead of
> just the spell :)
>
> I'm all for changing this... Someday there'll be a ruby-raa or some such as
> well ;)
>


Actually, I was thinking about a ruby-forge section at the weekend, as I have 
several new ruby related spells to add
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