in reply to Perl Module evaluation mechanism

This is a problem that I've seen discussed in many places recently. Graham Barr's CPAN BOF at TPC4 seemed to be almost all about ways to quality check CPAN modules.

More recently, there has been talk about this subject on a number of the Perl 6 mailing lists - in particular on the perl-qa and perl6-stdlib lists. See http://dev.perl.org/lists for subscription details and archives.

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RE: RE: Perl Module evaluation mechanism
by mirod (Canon) on Aug 31, 2000 at 18:58 UTC

    You are right, it looks like the Perl6 people (or at least the kwalitee guy!) plan something like this: CPANTS

    Now will we have to wait until perl 6 to have such a system or could we create something similar, maybe more informal, for cheap, which will work tomorrow and not next year and which might also give useful feedback to the real CPANTS developers?

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      the perl-qa list doesn't have 6 in it for good reason, it is intended that work on this doesn't have to wait for perl6. I believe that work on CPANTS can start anytime. So hopefully we don't have to wait for Perl 6 at all :-)

      Nuance

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