Hi, I'm looking for some help from developers who write Perl modules. My research group is interested in the different choices new package managers and repositories are making when designing their ecosystems. Newer packaging and modules systems like Node.js/NPM, Google's go language, Python's PyPI, are making very different design choices from each other, and they are very different (and probably informed by) older packaging systems like CPAN. We'd like to know what the impact of those design choices are on how you negotiate breaking changes among CPAN module developers when the packages depend on each other. We're also interested in what values you think CPAN's design is trying to optimize.
Could I ask people to take ~20 minutes of your time and fill out our survey at http://breakingapis.org/survey? I'll report back to the Perl community when we've analyzed the results (or there's a sign up link to be notified when results are out at http://breakingapis.org). (If you don't develop Perl modules, but do use NPM, PyPI, Hackage, or something else, we're still interested -- just make a different "software ecosystem" choice on the first page. The study is a comparison among ecosystems; CPAN is one point of comparison). Thank you, Chris Bogart Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University cbog...@cs.cmu.edu
