Moin,

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:47, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Steve Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > /eg scripts are a nice "hands-on" way of finding out how a module
> > > works in real life.
> > >
> > > No distribution should be without one!
> >
> > Unless, of course, it has an examples/ directory, which would cause
> > the kwalitee test to fail. ;)  I do think its a good idea, especially
> > with large, all-encompassing type modules to provide some examples,
> > but testing for (in effect, regulating) the name of the directory
> > that will be difficult to do.
>
>       I'm not convinced this is a good idea, but if it were implemented, I
> don't think a regexp to catch all of them would be that complicated...
> Well so far the only ones I've seen are "eg", "examples", and from that
> renegade GD::Graph, "samples".
>
>       If we were to actually use this as a metric, I'd suggest negating it
> if there is a "bin" directory, since applications may not need
> examples...

And packages without any actual packages, like wikimedia-graph.

But I am not sure if the agreed-on last suggestions were even implemented, 
or anything else done: http://cpants.dev.zsi.at/ was last updated 
2005-12-05, e.g. over three months ago :(

Best wishes,

Tels

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