[opam-devel] call for help: opam history

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

> > I will not comment on the Java-specific part of it, even if I'm sure we
> > functional programmers would love to learn how lame Maven came out from
> > our analysis (opam-repository, with its red cells on ows.irill.org
> > is a gem in comparison).
> 
> That's very interesting -- is there a central repository of Maven package
> metadata as well that?  I thought it was a standalone build tool.  It would
> be very useful to have some sort of comparison to other languages to get a
> sense of how well we're doing (even if it's a very rough metric).
> 

That's Maven Central, see http://search.maven.org/#stats for example
if you want to get scared... :-)

-- 
Roberto