On 23/11/2011 19:00, john saylor wrote: > On 11/23/2011 01:51 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >> chromatic tweeted: >>> The CPAN has 11.4% more uploaders, 19.4% more modules, and 14.3% more >>> distributions since *last year's* edition of Modern #perl: The Book.` >> Perl use is still growing? (Or at least CPAN is.) > i'd say that's a valid interpretation of that data. > > either that, or someone's running a script that generates and uploads > CPAN modules ...
At least two people are doing that that, I think, although in both cases the process still has to be kicked off manually. One of them's me, and I'm working on increasing both the level of automation and the amount of stuff that's automated a LOT. On a somewhat related note, I wrote this a year ago: http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_cantrell/2010/11/the-rate-of-cpan-churn.html -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
