[sf-perl] the next generation cpan (research and discussion)

Joe Brenner doom at kzsu.stanford.edu
Wed Aug 25 12:13:43 PDT 2010


On the subject of "improvements to cpan", I think the research
could start with this page:

  https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?cpan_related_websites

And this mailing list archive:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/cpan-workers@perl.org/

This site was getting positive comments at the last meeting:

  http://static.cpantesters.org/

And over at CPANTS they have all of the CPAN metadata up as an
easily downloaded SQLite file (which, as I remember it, has an
odd schema that appears to be completely undocumented):

     http://cpants.perl.org/static/cpants_all.db.gz

I think ideas like this were under discussion at the last meeting:

  http://github.com/schwern/gitpan/blob/master/README

  "gitPAN is a project to import the entire history of
  CPAN (known as BackPAN) into a set of git repositories,
  one per distribution."

I mentioned "Kwalitee", and I see that there's an "optional" Kwalitee
test "is_prereq", that looks to see if at least one other CPAN author
is using your work:

    http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html

Myself, I suggest keeping an eye on David Golden:

   http://www.dagolden.com/

Note the links in "My Best Stuff" over on the right side.



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