Hi! On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:31:37AM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
> flame wars. Best, at least for now, is to simply publish some > kwalitee metrics as an optional aid to enthusiastic CPAN authors. > If they prove good and useful, they will naturally become better known. Some of my recent thoughts about CPANTS: *) The metrics should help the average Perl programmer to generate better distributions. If a few people use better techniques (that might be too tough for 'average' programmers) it might happen that they do not get all the points. (cf has_test_pod_coverage vs using Dever::Cover et.al) But it's better for CPAN as a whole: A few people add pod-coverage tests because they get a few more points. *) CPANTS is not describing the one and only way how to write Perl / pack distribution. It's more of an online mutliplayer game where people submit their dists which than fight against my evil metrics. Please do not take CPANTS too serious. It might evolve into something really usefull, but currently it's way to simple-minded. As it says on the new Catalyst-powered web frontend: http://cpants.perl.org ALPHA VERSION - Hic sunt dracones! -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
