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A few weeks ago I argued that language distribution platforms should be based on a distributed version control system (like Mercurial or Git) and have an user-friendly web-interface (like BitBucket or GitHub). Reputation (like the one found in StacOverflow) should also be a part of the platform. Anyhow, read more here if you are interested: http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/19475

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Nice post. I think this is a really cool idea in general. A few of us on one of my projects have been thinking myself recently about a package manager based on git, where you could literally merge in feature branches or patch branches as you wanted...

While a nice idea, it would be worth finding out why github abandoned this very concept in favor of gemcutter.org before diving in head first. I trust the github guys as being far more competent than most in all matters of distributed source control especially when it comes to package management.

Presumably because gemcutter was doing a better job?

The idea is sound, but it was a distraction for us, so we were more than happy to offload rubygems to a dedicated service that could give it the attention it deserves.

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