better SEE ALSO sections (was: Re: Introduction Letter)

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:57:04AM -0500, Christopher Hicks wrote: This is a phenomenal initial cut of a POD. The review of relevant other modules in SEE ALSO and the philisophical differences with each deserves particular note. Bravo. I share your appreciation. I agree that this part

Re: better SEE ALSO sections (was: Re: Introduction Letter)

2005-02-28 Thread Andy Lester
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Mark Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was hoping for more of a comparison with Data::Page, which is similar but already established. AND at 100% Devel::Cover coverage, thanks to yours truly! :-) xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: better SEE ALSO sections

2005-02-28 Thread Ofer Nave
Andy Lester wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:05:09PM -0500, Mark Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was hoping for more of a comparison with Data::Page, which is similar but already established. AND at 100% Devel::Cover coverage, thanks to yours truly! :-) xoxo, Andy I've never

Re: better SEE ALSO sections

2005-02-28 Thread Ofer Nave
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Ofer Nave [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-28 22:55]: I've been thinking for a while that it would be great to have a CPAN wiki for things like: [...] I enjoyed writing the Parallel::* comparison, and I believe it is useful, but honestly, it doesn't belong in the SEE ALSO

a Perl/CPAN wiki (was: Re: better SEE ALSO sections)

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:36:34PM -0800, Ofer Nave wrote: Valid points, but I disagree on one - I think it IS partly a technical problem. Jimmy Wales tried to start a free online encyclopedia called Nupedia before Wikipedia was a twinkly in his eye, and it failed miserably after getting

Re: better SEE ALSO sections

2005-02-28 Thread Andrew Savige
--- Ofer Nave wrote: Most importantly... which one do the senior perl guys rely on? If Randal Schwartz and Dave Rolsky use a module regularly and can't imagine living without it, then that's probably the module I should be learning if I want to be a better programming. I don't know about

Re: better SEE ALSO sections

2005-02-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
Andrew Savige wrote: Shamless plug: since you are a relative newbie, you might find this article: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=418891 an interesting read, especially the section Testability and Test Suite. Also check out the perl-qa mailing list for all kinds of testing quality issues.

Re: better SEE ALSO sections

2005-02-28 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, plug http::/www.cpanforum.com while not a wiki tries (in the TODO list at least) answer some of what you are looking for. Specifically I though of setting up - with the help of the users - groups of moudules or categorizes from within th list of all the modules on CPAN and then allow