On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 14:02 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and finding
I don't think trimming is necessary if you are successful with this.
IMO the problem is just finding things, which your proposal addresses.
> better ways to find quality modules, I got an idea of making CPAN "category"
> reviews. The idea was originally derived from Freshmeat.net where they often
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> etc. he should note it. Now that I think about it, it may be a good idea to
> also define a machine-readable format (XML etc.) for the conclusions
> (possibly more) so they can be processed by the various CPAN interfaces.
not XML ... there already seems to be a format, viz:
.cpan/sources/
authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
modules/03modlist.data.gz
so you could add:
modules/04categories.gz
you'd also need a web interface at cpan.org
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> So what do you think - is there an interest in this?
Sure. Can you write something more concise, and definite. That would
make it easier to discuss.
>
> I'm attaching here a list of OOP modules I found on CPAN (probably not fully
That's a good choice for an example (again, IMO).
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