I'm sure someone has brought this up before, but I happened to notice the CGI::Builder module on the CPAN. It has more 5 star ratings than test passes. In fact, every rating is five stars and they're glowing reviews. And all reviewers are people I've never heard of. Then, to finish this off, I checked their other reviews and every review that all of them have written seems to be a glowing review of software that the CGI::Builder author has written.
So yeah, I blow my own horn at times, but at least I'm honest about it.
(For added fun, read the guy's code -- though this issue is well-known)
I think that some of the 5 star ratings were a reaction of merlyn's 1 star ratings (now removed) over the phone-home issue.
See here for an earlier discussion of this.
John.It is an obvious "copy" of CGI::Application. I wonder what the user base size compared to C::A it has? I have heard nothing about it.
Quite honestly, if I have to think too hard when I read code, I will move on. Those weirdly placed semi-colons make my nose bleed.
Re:I wonder about usage..
malte on 2006-07-24T17:52:41
ahhhhhh. I think I have seen that style before. Maybe it was from the same author. How could one possibly find that readable? It looks like he starts every line with a semi colon, so that he cannot forget them. Thinking about it, he probably should be using python instead.Re:I wonder about usage..
sigzero on 2006-07-24T19:29:46
I think that is exactly what he is doing. I think the CPAN gods should lightning bolt him. lolRe:I wonder about usage..
rhesa on 2006-07-24T20:26:59
It started out as a reimplementation of CGI::Application. I still faintly remember the turmoil he caused on the cgiapp mailing list too. See http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/msg01291.html and further down the thread.
