On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Fagyal Csongor wrote:
increase in the number of new Perl6ers at around < 100x slower. (That, and
the 10 "most important" Perl5 CPAN modules ported to Perl6 :))
Strangely enough, I was working on a list of things like this at one
point. I'll format it up a bit, and include it below.
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Category 1: Popular module types not covered by the Perl6 specs
- Tree/Datapath API module type (include DBI access, PathTools, maybe URI)
- Template module type (ie. HTML::Mason/Text::Template)
- Protocol module type requires:
- Grammars
- Event-loop framework (see below)
- Finite state machine
Category 2: Other popular purposes that aren't already covered by perl
features (eg. grammars or testing):
- Images (ie. GD)
- Archive/Encoding/Encryption
- Interfaces for specific software
Category 3: Covered well by the specs
- Time/Date -- see Temporal.pod
Category 4: Covered sketchily by the specs
- Event-loop framework -- will go in S17
- See POE-basic, AnyEvent, etc.
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I generated the ideas in the above list by looking at some list of the
top 100 Perl5 modules (Phalanx or something), and trying to extract out what I
thought the common themes were. But I haven't explained some of them very
well.
I've gone on enough about the Tree/Datapath stuff often enough that
those who followed it will have some idea of what I'm on about, but if not,
let me know.
The "Protocol" module mentioned is an idea for a suite of modules like
Perl5's Net::Cmd, but better; inbuilt stuff for dealing with some of the basic
kinds of protocol, whether basic call/response like POP, or numbered responses
like SMTP, or the xAP style format used in IMAP and ACAP, or the MIME-encoded
stuff in HTTP.
Hopefully most of the rest should be fairly obvious, but if not, let
me know.
HTH,
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