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!) - Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie."
