On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:24, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > So I was on IRC today, and someone (feel free to name yourself) was > talking about how cool it would be to have perlforge / perl > breadbasked / oyster bed (as you can see we got into naming). Anyway > whatever it would be called it would be a repository of Perl apps, > such as Siesta, NMS, etc. As is often the way with such subjects > discussion ensued, and someone else mentioned that scripts/ exists > on CPAN.
CPAN does have a reputation as a module repository. A concerted effort to push applications wouldn't be a bad thing. Playing devils advocate, why would it be cool ? Are you pitching this at perl community people or the "outside world" ? What would it's *purpose* be ? > Anyway, i'm not sure I think its a good idea putting all that energy > into a web page that would go out of date so fast, so naturally I had > a better idea, and after explaining it someone (the first one) asked > me to email him. Now I'm cautious of writing an email that will do no > good if he runs out of tuits, so I'm sending this to the list. A single web page wouldn't be that much energy but I take your point. Any activity needs to be backed up with some sort of marketing if I dare use that word ;-) > What I'd like to see is a "Tested with Test::More" button sized > image. And i'd like to see apps/modules that use Test::More or > Test::Simple to display it via a link. The link would go to a cgi/m_p > script that also generated a referer list (later on we can come up > with a cunning scheme of categorisation) for projects that use > Test::More. > > I think this would give a good start page for applications that use > Perl and at the very least are aware of Test::More. I know this is > only a mere fraction of what CPANTS could do, but it would be a start. Why limit yourselves to Test::More ? I'm pretty certain that Bricolage, mod_perl, Open Interact, RT and many others are not tested with Test::More but they are all good examples of projects you'd want there. Surely a "built with Perl" button would be a better start if you're looking for an external audience ? I thought there was one but the two linked off www.perl.org don't really do it. Simon.
