On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > # from David Nicol (on module-authors) on Sunday 18 April 2010 13:14: >>Once upon a time, CPAN was supposed to hold applications as well as >> modules. There were so many more modules than applications that >> indexing and so on tools for modules entirely eclipsed applications. > > This prompted me to dust off an old unfinished thread: It seems like > there should be some way to say e.g. "install bin/ack" or "install > bin/padre" and get the latest App::Ack or Padre. > > # from Andreas J. Koenig on Friday 05 September 2008 00:00: > # Re: addressing scripts as/within distributions >>The lack of excitement about the scripts category is as old as CPAN. >> >>Part of the reason may be that it's so dead easy to wrap a script into >>a module distro that everybody does it. >> .... >>Problem solved, isn't it? > > My example case is a distro sans module, so can that be a distro if we > define something in META.yml for a list of programs contained?
Just a related thought - how about distributions that are only examples with tests? There are quite a few modules on CPAN mostly in the 'adapting X to work with Y' space that could be happily examples of 'how to use Y with X', but tests do add many additional benefits. -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/
