On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:48:57PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Just yesterday I was thinking of something like validator.cpan.org (parallel
> to validator.w3.org):
>
> Upload a dist and let it be checked by a future version of Module::CPANTS.
That's actually kind of a neat idea. It makes me think how cool it would be if
Module::CPANTS installed a script which would do the same thing...from the
command line. It would be a handy development tool, much like warnings and
strict. Just as you can program in Perl without warnings and strict, it sure
is useful to use them.
If such a script existed the CPAN author could just type:
kwalitee MyModule.tar.gz
, and get the straight poop, as it were. The wonderful thing about Perl is that
it gives you so much flexibility, but as we all know this is a double edged
sword. The strict and warnings pragmas are there to encourage good practice (not
to tell you how to live your life), and a kwalitee metric would do similar
things for module authors.
Preeching to the Kwire
//Ed
