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Testing results, Perl and CPAN module availability
I am not sure if this is really a problem, but my gut feeling is
that if there was more information about what kind of things one
can do with Perl on various platforms (e.g. Unixes, Linux, Windows etc.)
it would encourage more people to use Perl.
Theoretically one could always install most of the
CPAN module on every platform, but people, especially the managerial types,
want to see some assurance that the stuff is out there for them to
use on the platforms they need.
So I would like to increase the available information about Perl
and CPAN modules on various platforms and
further more I would like to increase the
choice of modules on those platforms.
For this some time ago I created a report of some
cross platform statistics from the reports of
the CPAN Testers.
Recently I started to patch
CPAN::WWW::Testers,
the module generating the CPAN Testers
web site to include the same reports so they will be in once accessible location.
I hope that will be deployed soon.
On a separate project I asked the
Wisdom of the PerlMonks
if there is one or how to create a cross reference of the actual CPAN modules included
in various distributions.
I was pointed to relevant site listing all the Perl packages on Ubuntu
Dapper. That's a good start.
Comments either on the the
PerlMonks post or on use.perl.org Journal
or by private mail to me.
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