CPAN and RAA

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Re: CPAN and RAA by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 16, 2006 at 17:45 UTC
I ported Tree to Ruby, but never released it. My question would be how does this compare to the RubyGems archive? Is this the successor? My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN and RAA by Fletch (Bishop) on May 16, 2006 at 19:16 UTC
My understanding of it: Gems is a packaging mechanism (similar to PPMs in a way; gems may contain extension code that's compiled on the installing system, or binaries for Win32, or pure Ruby code). rubyforge.org is a Ruby-oriented Sourceforge-y site and the default source for gems (similar to how AS provides the default PPM repository), but the `gem` utility may be pointed at other servers (for beta releases, private repositories, etc). RAA provides a general index of Ruby projects with pointers to where they live (so similar to CPAN but nothing's really available directly from it; you get pointed to rubyforge or the author's site).	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN and RAA by samtregar (Abbot) on May 16, 2006 at 19:25 UTC
A list of links to projects isn't very similar to CPAN at all. CPAN is a distributed archive network with sophisticated automatic indexing, which is both more useful and much more complicated than a simple list of links. There's a good reason that no other language has anything close to the size and scope of CPAN - it's a heck of a lot of work to create and maintain! Worse, it requires a massive social effort to get everyone to actually use the same system. -sam	[reply]
Re^4: CPAN and RAA by Fletch (Bishop) on May 16, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
Re^2: CPAN and RAA by hsmyers (Canon) on May 16, 2006 at 18:35 UTC
I in my innocence remain clueless! What I've seen to date suggests that RAA == CPAN, but since I'm very new to the scene in question, I just don't know. --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN and RAA by cog (Parson) on May 17, 2006 at 12:45 UTC
Why, it's the Recreational Aircraft Association!! What else could it be? O:-)	[reply]
Re^4: CPAN and RAA by hsmyers (Canon) on May 17, 2006 at 14:38 UTC
Re: CPAN and RAA by borisz (Canon) on May 16, 2006 at 22:32 UTC
I wonder what a RAA is? A link would be nice. I guess it is CPAN for ruby. But why should a monk contribute there too? Boris	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN and RAA by davorg (Chancellor) on May 17, 2006 at 08:51 UTC
But why should a monk contribute there too? I don't think anyone is saying that you should contribute to RAA. But it might be nice if people did. Currently one of the main things stopping me from switching a lot of my work to Ruby is the fact that the vast majority of CPAN modules aren't available. -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN and RAA by Fletch (Bishop) on May 17, 2006 at 01:07 UTC
I should have linkified it in my previous reply as well. raa.ruby-lang.org	[reply]
Re: CPAN and RAA by Stoffe (Sexton) on May 19, 2006 at 13:13 UTC
I have contributed to both - if you count patches, as I have no modules of my own in either. Also, one has to count projects linked from RAA, as it is not a repository of its own, that would probably be rubyforge that comes closest. As your question is phrased I suspect that you think it might be "politically incorrect" for a Perl programmer to contribute to and therefore further Ruby, but I don't see it that way at all. Apparently you use both, since you ask, for whatever reason - suitability or curiosity perhaps. The only correct answer as I see it is that you of course should help making any of your tools better given the chance. Making either better at a task does in no way diminish the other, it only makes life easier for other people. You will not hurt Perl in the slightest, but Ruby, which needs a bit more of a leg up when it comes to modules, could really benefit from some help.	[reply]