All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

Visiting Minneapolis

petdance on 2004-04-15T05:40:15

I write this from my swank room in the most lux hotel in all of Minneapolis, the very elite home of Ken Williams. Includes free wireless access!

Talked to the Minneapolis mongers tonight about automated testing, and boy were they a lively group. I'm very glad I drove the 6+ hours to get up here.

AND we came up with a hell of a solution to the "I don't know what the good modules on CPAN" problem. Anyone who's got some freetime to help me out with a little web magic, drop me a line, please. It's something I want to make happen before raising awareness, lest the swarm of naysayers make a blather.

PHP?

shiflett on 2004-04-15T06:09:51

What if the Web magic is in PHP? Are you language agnostic?

Re:PHP?

petdance on 2004-04-16T05:34:03

Not on this one, no.

FOAF might be helpful

timbu on 2004-04-15T16:43:29

I was thinking that the FOAF spec might work for the CPAN ideas floated last night.

See my blog entry on the topic.

Another data point: Debian's popcon

markjugg on 2004-04-18T17:52:13

Here's another data point:

Debian is already collecting and publishing information about which Perl modules (that there are Debian packages for) are installed and being used.

You can see the results published here:
http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote

Search for "-perl" on the page to find Perl modules. It looks like DBI with MySQL lead the pack for being the most used.

So, querying this data source, and others like it would be another way to compute kwalitee.