Re: A directory site for open-source Cocoa components?

FROM : C Sandeep
DATE : Thu May 22 22:10:09 2008

I think a CPAN like environment for objc/cocoa is a good idea. I'd
like to help in any way possible to make this possible. RIght now Im
using google code and sourceforge to host my apps/frameworks.

- Sandeep

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Sherm Pendley <sherm.<email_removed>> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jens Alfke <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> There are quite a lot of open source Cocoa components these days —
>> everything from small utility classes, to new controls, to entire frameworks
>> — but no easy way to find them all. I keep running into various people's
>> websites that list a handful of components, some of them extremely useful,
>> and I'm sure there are more I haven't seen.
>>
>> I don't know of any website that acts as a directory of these. If there
>> really isn't one, maybe we should create one. It wouldn't necessarily need
>> to be the whole "___Forge" deal, with source hosting and bug tracking and
>> all, though that wouldn't hurt; the main thing is just to provide a way to
>> register these projects and their descriptions, and then search the
>> directory.
>>
>> Anyone interested? (Or know of an existing site that I've overlooked?)

>
>
> My $2 (inflation's a bitch):
>
> I own the "dot-app.org" domain, and I'm not doing all that much with it
> aside from collecting spam. I'm not too keen on transferring ownership at
> this point in time - I'd like to keep the option of doing something else
> with it if this idea doesn't pan out. But I'd be willing to donate it to a
> nonprofit foundation (similar to how the Perl Foundation now owns cpan.org)
> if the site makes it that far. For now, if someone has a machine to host
> this thing, I can easily point the DNS entries at it.
>
> sherm--
>
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