On Fri 22 Aug 2003 11:16, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:48:11PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> > The Phalanx project has started its rampup to an official
> > announcement. Phalanx is going to beef up the tests, coverage and
> > docs on Perl and 100 heavily-used modules from CPAN.
>
> I'll be interested to see how you handle non-Perl dependencies as in
> C libraries.
>
>
> > The project page is at http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/. Please take a
> > look, tell me your thoughts, and if there are any serious ommissions
> > from the Phalanx 100 module list...
>
> If we do, then it won't be the Phalanx 100 anymore, will it. :)
> I'd highly recommend against a naming scheme that limits your implementation.
> Hard coded constants and all that. :)
>
> I'd also recommend you list by Module::Name rather than Distribution-Name.
> If nothing else the Module::Name is more consistent.
>
> Here's some Really Important modules you're missing. I'm using
> http://mungus.schwern.org/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi?EssentialModules
> for reference.
>
> It looks like you've left off all CPAN modules which are also in the core,
> I suppose you're figuring they'll be handled by the core smokers. Except
> that the versions on CPAN are sometimes slightly different than the ones
> in the core. I recall a recent release of Filter::Simple that worked fine
> in the core but got the paths to its test libraries wrong when installed
> from CPAN. The smokers also don't check for backwards compat.
>
> Most I mention because they're important. Some I mention because they
> tend to break a lot and reveal subtle incompatibilities in Perl.
>
> Test
> Test::Harness
> Test::More
> IO
> Class::Date (simply because it seems to break every time Perl changes)
> File::Spec (now on CPAN)
> Cwd (will be on CPAN soon)
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker
> CPAN
> Date::Parse (not so sure about that one)
> IPC::Run (cross-platform process execution is important)
> Devel::Cover
> Devel::Peek
> Devel::DProf
> Devel::SmallProf
> Text::Template
> libnet (Net::FTP, et al)
> Pod::Parser
> Pod::Man
> Pod::Text
> Pod::Simple
> Time::HiRes
> Tk (very complex, very chummy with MakeMaker)
> WxPerl (ditto)
> Filter::Simple (if that breaks, think of all the Acme modules that go with it!)
FWIW here's my list of `standard' modules I allways add or update to the
default installation, with the lastest version I use:
my @defmod = qw(
ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.16
Test-1.24
Test-Harness-2.28
Test-Simple-0.47
Getopt-Long-2.33
Compress-Zlib-1.22
IO-Zlib-1.01
Archive-Tar-1.04
Archive-Zip-1.06
Data-Dumper-2.102
Heap-0.50
Graph-0.201
Storable-2.07
Scalar-List-Utils-1.12
Devel-Size-0.58
Debug-Trace-0.04
Bit-Vector-6.3
Date-Calc-5.3
DateManip-5.42a
Time-HiRes-1.50
Encode-1.97
Unicode-Collate-0.25
Text-CSV_XS-0.23
DB_File-1.806
DBI-1.37
DBD-Unify-0.26
DBD-Oracle-1.14
DBD-mysql-2.9002
SQL-Statement-1.005
DBD-CSV-0.2002
Digest-1.02
Digest-MD5-2.27
Digest-SHA1-2.04
PROCURA-1.23
Text-Balanced-1.95
Parse-RecDescent-1.94
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51
Crypt-Rot13-0.04
libnet-1.16
Net-Ping-2.31
Net-Rexec-0.12
Net-SNMP-3.65
NNTPClient-0.37
TermReadKey-2.21
Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
Text-Soundex-3.02
Text-Format0.52+NWrap0.11
Tk800.024
Tk-Clock-0.07
Tk-TreeGraph-1.024
Devel-ptkdb-1.1086
MIME-Base64-2.20
Term-Size-0.2
Mail-Sendmail-0.79
Unix-Processors-2.014
);
if ($^O eq "cygwin") {
push @defmod, qw(
IO-stringy-2.108
OLE-Storage_Lite-0.11
Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2602
Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.41
DBD-Excel-0.06
DBD-ODBC-1.06
Win32-Sound-0.45_001
);
}
else {
push @defmod, qw(
Proc-ProcessTable-0.38
User-Utmp-1.6.1.1
Inline-0.44
X11-Protocol-0.51
);
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