Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:39:06 -0500, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:47 PM, David Golden wrote:
>> Some potential options:
>>
>> (a) Add "directory" as a synonym to the spec and add "dir" as
>> something that CPAN sites recognize.
>>
>> (b) Change the spec to "directory" -- if CPAN sites are the only
>> real user of META.yml no_index, then the pain should be minimal.
>>
>> (c) Change CPAN sites to follow the spec, despite breaking many
>> distributions' current indexing.
> Randy Sims keeps some statistics on the META.yml files that exist on
> CPAN, perhaps he could tell us the relative frequencies of 'dir' vs.
> 'directory' in the wild?
The page is there, http://thepierianspring.org/perl/meta/, but does
not provide direct statistics so I made up my own.
Now it does. ;)
no_index/dir 13
no_index/directory 1397
private/directory 40
My numbers are a bit different since I count only the most recent
version of each distro rather than every occurrence on CPAN.
Hmm, it looks like there is a strong correspondence between distros
using 'directory' and distros produced by Module::Install. There goes
Adam, breaking rules and rebelling against established conventions.
Hehe. Just kidding. I think I like 'directory' better myself anyway.
Randy.
