[erlang-questions] Erlang 10 years of Open Source; it is time for the next step

[Jim Miller]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitriid@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>
>  On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Jim Miller wrote:
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>  >>
>  >> End users could benefit from an earlie adoption of libraries like
>  >> Starling
>  >> (ICU binding) and erlycairo.
>  >
>  > What prohibits the type of end users that are early adopters from
>  > using these now?
>
>  these libraries are all over the place, they are hard to come by. If
>  they could all be pulled down from a single repository even from an
>  unstable branch, that would be awsome
>

Other communities (Scala and OCaml are currently dealing with this)
address this by setting up a repository of third party extensions that
play well together and hopefully are on a migration path to inclusion
in the baseline.  This is a very different beast than opening up the
main repository.

I would completely support and agree with an ErlangX repository for
this purpose.