A new version of Module::CPANTS::Generator is on it's way to CPAN, here are some data samples:
(btw, you can get the sqlite.db from http://cpants.dev.zsi.at>)
Highest Kwalitee now is 11, new indicators are:
* has_tests (checks if there is a file test.pl or a dir t
* proper_libs (checks if there is dir called 'lib' or a single *.pm file in the topdir)
Oh, the data:
sqlite> select kwalitee,count(kwalitee) as cnt from kwalitee group by
...> kwalitee order by kwalitee;
kwalitee cnt
---------- ----------
0 32
1 3
2 12
3 61
4 47
5 59
6 110
7 521
8 1695
9 3411
10 1654
11 155
sqlite> select count(*) from kwalitee where has_tests=0;
count(*)
----------
713
sqlite> select count(*) from kwalitee where proper_libs=0;
count(*)
----------
558
Another new thing is required_by, which lists the number of other dists requiring a module included in a given dist. To calculate this, there is a new table called modules which list which modules are included in a distribution.
sqlite> select dist,required_by from distribution where required_by > 0 order by required_by desc limit 15;
dist required_by
---------------- -----------
Test-Simple-0.47 1021
DBIx-Abstract-1. 914
libwww-perl-5.10 655
libwww-perl-5.77 446
libwww-perl-5.80 446
libwww-perl-5.53 444
PathTools-3.00 207
Data-Dumper-2.12 149
HTML-Parser-3.36 149
Digest-MD5-2.33 145
Scalar-List-Util 130
XML-Parser-2.34 98
Template-Toolkit 91
Template-Toolkit 90
POE-0.29 87
Some of this data is a bit spoiled, as, eg DBIx::Abstract includes Test::More in its dist and thus gets a lot of counts it actually doesn't deserve. I'll have to add some more checks to prevent this...
Other CPANTS news:
* Gabor hacked together a quick web frontend using Maypole available here: http://cpants.szabgab.com.
* We are thinking of renaming the dist from "Module::CPANTS" to "CPANTS". Any opinions on this?
It goes to 11.
But this will be a dis-incentive to add any more metrics.
Top level namespaces bad. (although i'm guilty of it myself
Perhaps 'Module::*' isn't the best namespace for it, but perhaps 'CPAN::*' is.. there's currently 27 modules in the CPAN::* namespace by 10 different authors...
CPAN::CPANTS ?
One thing though, I'm sure I'm not the only one whom 'kwalitee' drives bonkers. I know this is a Schwernism but, it just seems to cutesy for anyone to take seriously. I get enough K's up here in Konsonantland.
