Hey William -- > Thus I'm behind any effort that makes Perl more accessible to > new users > which is what I think a best practices document or faq can do > for CGI::App > and what the p5ee project could do for Perl modules in general.
I would never badmouth any effort to try and help people get ahead on the daunting curve of figuring out which of the 5000+ Perl modules on CPAN are useful! That's not the goal of P5EE, at any rate: "...to promote the development, deployment, and acceptance of Enterprise Systems written in Perl." This isn't a training mission. It's a marketing mission. And I'm not against marketing Perl either, but this smacks of me-too-ism. "Java has J2EE, so lets make P5EE." OTOH, what do I know? I'm all for anyone who wants to try and open the door to Perl, any way they think will be effective. If P5EE enables an IT staffer to convince their boss that Perl is a viable replacement for Java, that's great. As far as filtering for useful CPAN modules, I am all for an automatic rating system. I think a good first step would be tracking download traffic of modules. Download popularity is a pretty good indicator of something, me thinks. TTYL, -Jesse- -- Jesse Erlbaum The Erlbaum Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 212-684-6161 Fax: 212-684-6226 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
