in reply to Re^2: Challenge: CPAN Golf
in thread Challenge: CPAN Golf

Good example of software that shouldn't be on CPAN. It's a "blogging software that reads posts from the filesystem" etc and definitely not a module despite its disguise as such ( = it meets the formal criteria for perl modules).

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^4: Challenge: CPAN Golf
by stvn (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 01:09 UTC

    CPAN is not just for modules though, there are a couple of applications on CPAN (ack by petdance comes to mind). As I am sure the author of Angerwhale is aware, CPAN (when used in this way) becomes a high availability, globally mirrored application distribution platform with automatic dependency resolution built right in. Oh yeah,.. and it's free and already installed on just about every *nix machine in existence. What more could a girl ask for?

    Keep in mind that CPAN has no rules beyond your basic "reasonable person principles". It could easily be argued that such anarchy is what has allowed CPAN to become what it is today.

    -stvn
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