On Jan 22, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Matthew Simon Cavalletto wrote:
On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Terrence Brannon wrote:BTW - What's with the Catalog::* namespace? You building something interesting you want to share with the rest of the group? :)
I suppose this is a catalog of lazy loaders so I named it as such. The CPAN as magazne idea was shot down, but I still like using POD and h2xs to cobble up articles.
As I said when this subject came up a couple of months ago, I really like the idea of publishing these catalogs on CPAN for cross-indexing purposes.
I second that, I really like the idea too.
Personally, every time I have a need for something, I first search CPAN and maybe ask around on perlmonks, and if I don't find what I need, I write it myself.
However this method is frought with problems. For instance, I spent almost a whole day searching for some kind of mock DBI/DBD, and found nothing because of the terms I was searching with (MockDB, MockDBI, etc). For whatever reason, DBD::Mock never came up. I only found out about it when I posted the question on perl monks and Chris Winters replied. If Chris had not seen my post, I would have started writing it myself.
Basically my point is that CPAN's search engine is good, but limited. Short of asking module authors to add more meta-data to their module distros or writing some large AI which can understand our modules and the problem spaces they apply too, I think the next best thing might be to write these CPAN catalog modules.
Should we start something official? Terrence already has a good start going, and I would surely be interested in contributing.
- Steve
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