On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, William McKee wrote: > On 2 Jan 2003 at 21:39, Peter Masiar wrote: > > For old experienced perl hacker like you, Jesse, p5ee initiative > > might look like that. You may know many good packages, > > and their authors, and don't need any guidance. > > ...snip... > > Kudos for standing up for yourself, Peter! I was surprised to read Jesse's > response to the p5ee initiative as well. Although I've been working with > Perl for several years, I find navigating the world of CPAN and Perl > modules to be a demanding job which I've only recently becoming > comfortable with doing. > > 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 also like a way to tell at a glance which Perl modules are worthwhile. I don't think having a central authority such as P5EE is the way to do it, though. What I would like, and have suggested to the CPAN folks, is for CPAN to have a buit-in rating and commet system, much like Amazon.com has for books, PerlMonks.org has for content, etc. This way, a highly rated module should be the result of a community consensus. The comment system adds in some appropriate fuzziness-- people may rate the module up or down for reasons you may or may not agree with. Within this framework, you may still be able to use a single authority if you wanted to, perhaps by reviewing all ratings a single user has made. However, I recall reading nestled away somewhere in a CPAN FAQ that they aren't interested in this feature at this time. I'm not recalling the exact reason. Still, it would be possible to add features like this by having a site that is a "wrapper" of sorts around the main CPAN site. Or if more people used the existing "module review" section of perlmonks.org, that could work well, too. Mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
