in reply to App-lcpan: Amazing Dependency Graph

Is perlancar an individual or a team? How is it possible for an individual to create and publish 1000 quality CPAN distributions? Anyone know the backstory?

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Re^2: App-lcpan: Amazing Dependency Graph (perlancar)
by Discipulus (Canon) on Dec 07, 2023 at 08:38 UTC
    Hello eyepopslikeamosquito

    perlancar is really perlancar and yes they are an individual and used to lurk here and is a nice guy. Not 1000 distributions: 2541!

    Maybe he is playing Risk with CPAN :)

    In their blog we read: I’ve also released way too many CPAN modules, because it is so much fun :)

    L*

    There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
    Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
Re^2: App-lcpan: Amazing Dependency Graph (perlancar)
by kcott (Archbishop) on Dec 07, 2023 at 09:05 UTC

    G'day 👁️🍾👍🦟,

    I have seen posts by (PerlMonks monk) perlancar on many occasions; I had always assumed this was the same person as (CPAN author) PERLANCAR.

    Following the PERLANCAR link, I see perlancar.wordpress.com/ amongst the contact information.

    Following that link and switching to the ABOUT tab, I see:

    "... I've also released way too many CPAN modules ..."
    ... and a couple of paragraphs later ...
    "... perlmonks ..."

    The "CPAN modules" link → CPAN author PERLANCAR
    The "perlmonks" link → PerlMonks monk perlancar

    It would seem that my assumption was correct.

    — Ken

      kcott, further to the amazing dependency graph you mentioned in the root node, I noticed a similarly amazing MapOfCpan of perlancar's 2541 distributions.

      Don't let $work see he's "available for telecommute and part-time work" ... they might make a "management decision" to hire perlancar part-time to replace their entire IT department. :)

      Finally, I see that in Indonesian the root word is "lancar" meaning smooth/fluent (similar to German, where the root word for smooth/fluent is LanX :).

      Updated: fixed a couple of typos.

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Re^2: App-lcpan: Amazing Dependency Graph (perlancar)
by etj (Priest) on May 14, 2024 at 13:44 UTC
    My analysis is that the author has never seen a wheel he didn't want to reinvent, rather than just contributing improvements to existing modules. I gather many people have tried to persuade him to change strategy.