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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On 12:52:46 2008-01-07 Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:
> 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

Should be ruby-raa since raa.ruby-lang.org is the main site for such
things...
*forge is just a generic projects managment page(i.e. sourceforge and
others)...