[Pdx-pm] Starting from scratch with Module::Build
Marvin Humphrey
marvin at rectangular.com
Fri Jul 1 16:10:05 PDT 2005
Schwern writes:
> I honestly don't bother with things like h2xs (especially h2xs)
> because
> their templates tend to make things seem WAY more complicated than
> they
> really are by providing "fill in the blanks" for all sorts of stuff
> you're
> unlikely to need. I think h2xs has contributed greatly to the
> "writing
> modules is hard" myth.
Hmm.
Shouldn't writing modules, at least for CPAN, be a _little_ hard, or
more precisely, a little involved? How much of the stuff that comes
out of h2xs or module-starter is fluff? Finding stuff on CPAN is
already pretty annoying, because there are so many half-assed modules
with inadequate documentation, tests, commenting, etc.
I _like_ the idea that module writers who fail to alter the stub
documentation open themselves to ridicule.
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=blah+blah+blah
In fact, I'd like to see Pod::Coverage, and maybe Test::Coverage
results integrated into the search interface. Filter my results to
eliminate garbage like this, please:
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Pod-Simple-3.02/lib/Pod/Simple/HTML.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~simon/Plucene-SearchEngine-1.1/lib/Plucene/
SearchEngine.pm
As someone who takes documentation and QC seriously, I appreciate
having a template prepared for me that errs on the side of excess.
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/
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