On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 09:37 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I see on http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/OsloQAWorkshop2008 > that probably non of you is going to participate. That's a pity. > Anyway I am trying to setup some documentation/system that might help > all the distros to include more CPAN packages more easily. > > For this I setup a page collecting information about the availability of CPAN > packages in the various distros http://www.szabgab.com/distributions/ > As you can see Fedora is way underrepresented there. How did you collect these numbers? Fedora FC2: 44? Apart from that this particular distro is dead for many years, the figure is _way off_ from current status. My current estimate of CPAN dists in current Fedora is: # grep perl- owners.fedora.list | wc -l 841 That's in the same range as Ubuntu, Debian and other major Linux distros. I guess you counted the number of CPAN dists in FC2's "Fedora Core", not the number of perl-dists in "Fedora Core 2" + "Fedora Extra 2". Also, I don't know what you count as "module". Perl in Fedora without any doubt has evolved sufficiently long to justify boldly claiming "most essential vital modules/dists to be in Fedora" and only "rarely needed modules" (minus those with legal issues) to be missing. I really have no idea how a distro can be claimed to be supporting 8000+ perl-dists, nor how useful such a distro would be. My wild guess is they are counting differently or contain a lot of duplicated CPAN modules. > What if you could have a "wishlist" that you could present to CPAN module > authors? What would that contain? What would make life easier for those > who package CPAN modules for Fedora? In decreasing priority: - Improve your versioning scheme - perl's versioning doesn't harmonize well with rpm's versioning. - Think about the licenses you apply. Write Free software. - Write better code. There is a lot of junk in CPAN. ... Ralf -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
