demerphq wrote:
On 5/26/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----
> From: Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Andy Lester wrote:
> > Here's an example of why I'm not real excited about CPANTS:
> >
> > http://community.livejournal.com/perl/120747.html
>
> Ironically, posted by someone that also makes all her modules phone
home
> at install time.
Huh? Can you post an example? The logical spot for having the module
"phone home" would be in the Makefile.PL. I also glanced at some
tests, but didn't see anything there, either.
Look at the Build.PL not the Makefile.PL.
And its voluntary so im not sure why Adam thinks its bad.
I tell you what, I'm going to add the same code to all 100+ of my
modules. And what if then Audrey and Ovid and Miyagawa and a hundred
others did.
For an application with 50 dependencies, that's 50 x 20 second pauses,
or you get to sit there hitting no constantly.
She's acting as a freeloader on the system.
She's taking 20 seconds from every person, recursively, that installs
any of her modules for no purpose other than her own.
And it's fairly innocent, as long as it is only her and they are modules
almost nobody uses.
But if more people started doing it, and they were modules in more use,
then it gets annoying very very quickly.
And that's quite a bit different to some centralised implementation
embedded in CPAN.pm that asks once and remembers.
Adam K
