To be the best package management system ever. To change the nature of package creation/distribution. To simplify all aspects of the process of writing and disseminating a library. To speed up parts of the system that are slow.
It should be easy to submit a package to the repository.
It should be easy to access a package listed in the repository. The repository should handle dependencies automatically.
It should be faster than the current tcl library load times. Root access shouldn't be necessary to add packages to one's local set of packages.
[package require Package]
The code is here: http://code.google.com/p/wub/source/browse/trunk/Utilities/Package.tcl
It completely replaces package with a version which tracks additions to (note: not subtractions from) ::auto_path. First time it ever runs it creates a database under ~/.tclpkg into which it stores all the packages it finds. Thereafter, it satisfies all [package require] calls from that database, never traversing the filesystem again, unless and until ::auto_path changes to include a new, as yet unseen, directory.
This is faster than filesystem traversal, and provides a centralised database of all known/seen packages. This speed comes at a cost, of course: changes to the underlying file system will *not* be noticed by or reflected in Package. As things stand, the database would have to be removed to reflect these changes when it is automatically rebuilt.