Re: Project lead nominations for standard libraries?

[Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>]

Hello, HyperHacker.

Please pardon a noob for chiming in while still wet behind the ears
and elsewhere ...

On Thursday, December 30, 2010, at 10:50:29
PM, you wrote:

> The idea of hosting library modules on a wiki is intriguing. You have
> the actual code files requiring some manner of permission to edit, and
> then discussion pages where people can suggest changes; people can
> submit their modules and edit them... potentially one could hack
> require() to check for and download new versions automatically if they
> wanted to be totally bleeding-edge.

I would call the attention of the group to Ruby "gems", and to git,
github, and git "gists" as interesting models for doing this.

... back to lurking ...

Ron Jeffries
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