Re: addressing kwalitee and other quality issues at the head of the CPAN River

2016-01-28 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 January 2016 at 13:01, Neil Bowers wrote: > - use warnings This can be a regression sometimes, adding warnings where there are none in novice code is good. But people who know what they're doing may omit warnings on purpose. So this is not so much a "Quality"

addressing kwalitee and other quality issues at the head of the CPAN River

2016-01-28 Thread Neil Bowers
I’ve been looking at CPAN distributions that have 10k+ downstream dependent distributions. There are currently just 45 such distributions: http://neilb.org/2016/01/26/river-head-quality.html I think that in general these heavyweight dists should be good examples for people to look at.

Re: addressing kwalitee and other quality issues at the head of the CPAN River

2016-01-28 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 January 2016 at 13:01, Neil Bowers wrote: > adding min perl version I'd be particularly careful with that one. People who don't know what they're doing are predisposed to set a bar at a premature location. For instance, if somebody has a motto of /attempting/ 5.6