DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[Brad Anderson]

John Reimer wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:36:05 -0700, Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> This was one of the primary motivations for the Tango team "asking" 
>>> Gregor to include download support early on.  I personally feel that 
>>> this will be the way most libraries should/will be distributed.
>>>
>> ... in what universe did the Tango team ask for this? You'd think if the 
>> Tango team was behind it initially, tango would be net-installable via 
>> DSSS. And yet, it's not :P
>>
>>   - Gregor Richards
>>
>> PS: The reason Tango is not net-installable is because of my do-no-harm 
>> philosophy of net-installs. You should not install something, then find 
>> that your arbitrary project using Phobos fails for reasons mysterious to 
>> you.
> 
> 
> Gregor, I think the it was clear that the Tango Team had a "guarded"
> interest in DSSS, early on.  I had plenty of discussions with you about
> DSSS.
> 
> But, unless I missed a discussion behind the scenes (quite possible),
> Gregor is right that there was never a formal acceptance of DSSS. The
> reason was clear, as I remember discussing the situation: DSSS/rebuild was
> buggy and unproven, a fact that made it a precarious choice for promoting
> Tango installations during its early stages where first impressions were
> crucial (alas, we still had lots of troubles despite that :P ). For
> myself, I didn't want to see Tango using DSSS until it could be proven to
> work flawlessly. I think DSSS is almost there and should, once again, be
> formally tested for release with Tango as an appropriate installation
> option.  However, I'm still somewhat guarded in seeing it as a primary
> installation option, at this point.  
> 
> -JJR

>From the beginning, I took GregorR's comments as jest, and his P.S. covered
the issue.  Maybe I missed something, but I thought the entire thing was innocent.

BA