Hi!

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:42:21PM -0000, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Thomas Klausner wrote in perl.qa :
> > 
> > Well, here's a list of lowercase dist on CPAN (238 dists). Quite a lot of
> > those are in fact real distributions (eg. perl, parrot). In fact I think
> > that perl itself shouldn't be part of CPANTS 
> > 
> > I've no clue on how to figure out if something is a pragmatic module (any
> > hints appreciated..)
> 
> You could check for the "interface type" field in the module list : 'p'
> means 'pragmatic'.

If the module list would be up to date that would be possible. But as it is
currently rather unmaintained (or is it not??), the module list is of little
help. Unfortunatly.

> You could also check if the distribution name matches a .pm file
> in the tarball.
> 
> Oh, and the ex:: namespace is officially for experimental pragmas.

thanks for the hints...

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