[MacRuby-devel] HotCocoa Part I

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Rich Morin wrote:

> Consequently, IMHO, the question of whether HC _should_ include  
> zillions
> of random frameworks is rather off the mark.  Clearly, if HC becomes  
> even
> slightly popular, community members _will_ be creating these  
> frameworks.
>
> The critical question, then, is how to create an environment that  
> allows
> (nay, encourages!) frameworks to be created, tested, polished,  
> documented,
> indexed, shared, etc.  My intuition is that GitHub should be part of  
> this,
> because it promotes free-flowing cooperation, merging, etc.   
> However, I'm
> quite sure that GitHub isn't the entire solution.  So, ideas are  
> welcome!

I think that's fairly self-evident, no?  If HC enables the quick and  
easy creation of modules/frameworks/softwareICs/callemwhateveryoulike  
to such an extent that we start seeing any sort of proliferation of  
them then "packaging and general husbandry" becomes the first and most  
immediate concern.   Maybe RubyGems provides the appropriate packaging  
abstraction already, or perhaps that's too coarse-grained (I have no  
idea how "GEM space" is partitioned or otherwise managed, but I'd  
imagine there's a limit somewhere) and we need gem fragments  
(splinters?) that HC supports for itself.  I dunno.

- Jordan