On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:37:09PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> Joking, right? There's no need for "something in core" and it is
> already "someplace appropriate".
>
> The important attributes for this sort of information are that it is
> current, correct, and findable.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+administration+best+practice
That's a very specific search string. So while it is, I suppose,
findable, it's not *easily* findable. If instead you search for "perl
installation and management, there's not a single perlfoundation page in
the first 100 results. Likewise for "perl installation HOWTO".
And once you have found it, how is someone outside the community meant
to know that the authors know what they're talking about?
The reason to put doco like this in core is because a user can then
reasonably suppose that the authors really do know what they're talking
about, and that it was subjected to debate and peer review before
acceptance and promulgation.
And of course perldoc perladmin is rather less susceptible to casual
vandalism, spam, and misguided edits than a wiki is.
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