Re: [Module::Build] Re: something broken between Module::Build, CPAN.pm,and ExtUtils::MakeMaker in 5.8.8 for UINST=1

[Ken Williams]

On Feb 17, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I can't resist. *Anyone* could, but *I* will.

Using http://cpants.perl.org/i/cpants.db.bz2

/home/nick/Sandpit/snap5.8.x-27191/bin/perl5.8.8 -MDBI -wle 'my $dbh = 
DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=cpants.db","",""); print 
$dbh->selectall_arrayref("select count(*) from dist")->[0][0]'
9766

Which I think means that it's an index of 9766 dists. (it's from 5th 
Dec 2005)

                    Makefile.PL:
                Present Absent  Total
Build.PL:
Present         1012    110     1122
Absent          8446    194     8640
Total           9458    304     9766

So almost exactly 10% of distributions with a Build.PL don't have a
Makefile.PL


Thanks, Nicholas.

Another way to slice it: of the 304 CPAN distributions that don't 
contain a Makefile.PL, just over 1/3 of them do contain a Build.PL and 
are therefore probably real installable things (and not just someone's 
vacation photos).

 -Ken