[ccan] First ideas for GSoC

[Adam Kennedy]

This is a pretty reasonable summary, although personally I'd move the 
releasing of modules out to a separate system.

Adam K

Nicolas Martyanoff wrote:
> First ideas:
>
> The end users must be able to grab the libs easily:
>
> ccan --install 'sys::threads'
> ccan --update
> ccan --upgrade
>
> Of course, the tools has to handle dependencies.
>
>
> The programmers must have simple tools too:
>
> # Run the tests then send the results to the server
> ccan --test 'sys::threads'
> # Release a new version of a module
> ccan --release 'sys-threads_0.6-r4.tgz'
>
> If we want this platform to be really usable, we also have to standardize
> the way packages are built (make...).
>
> The site web would allow new projet creation, user feedbacks, documentation, etc.
>
> For the architecture, I would suggest something like this:
>
>          +-----------------------------------+---------------------+-------------> User
>          |                                   |                     |
>          |                                   |                     |
>          |             perl VCI              |                     |
> Versionning (Bazaar) <----------> \          |         RPC         |
>                                    > Web site (perl) <----> Client (ANSI C)
> DB (postgresql) <---------------> /
> 		    perl DBI
>
> The more I think about it, the more I believe it's possible to build a great platform :)
>
> Regards,
>
>