* "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-05T02:39:20] > I'll just mention two things, both very different > > A. CORE modules are tested on all supported architectures, while CPAN modules > do not give that guarantee. The smoke system still causes all possible > combinations to be tested on various architectures in various > configurations.
Absolutely; this, I cede. > B. Let's just name YAML. Up until 0.38 it was not to difficult to install a > module that is very useful, but now in 0.58, it uses a different test > suite, that needs Spiffy, that needs ...... Ugh, yeah, but you're picking a very specific and specifically troubled distribution. You also didn't mention (maybe you've been spared learning) that YAML used to export :all but now doesn't. That said, I don't dispute the point that it can be wildly obnoxious when "Something::Trivial" requires DBD::MySQL and Data::Dump::Streamer when it could use neither -- or at least rely on AnyDBM and Data::Dumper. It will just meant that fewer people want to use that trivial module because it takes longer to install and is less well-tested by virtue of its dependencies. > My opinion only. I don't think your opinion, as stated, is insane. I think it's better to vote with your installer, though, and avoid using those modules that have more dependencies than you think is right. I think that Kwalitee is an over-rated concept, but not useless -- but weirder things keep getting proposed to make it even less useful. I think "too many non-core deps" would be a nail in its coffin as a global metric. -- rjbs
