On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? I was using Module::Packaged of Leon (blame him :-) I patched it where I could but that was almost a year ago. I wish to start it again. See my most recent source if you have time to point me where to fetch the data from. http://svn1.hostlocal.com/szabgab/trunk/Module-Packaged-0.86/ > 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". probably that's what the module is doing. I think both should be counted and maybe we should also mark which module is where. > 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 wish to count CPAN distros (that is tar.gz files from CPAN). > 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. There are some 13.000 on CPAN so 8000+ is still less than 2/3. > > 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. Can you elaborate - give a few short examples or at least point me where is it described? > - Think about the licenses you apply. Write Free software. Do you have examples you encountered where it is not so on CPAN? > - Write better code. There is a lot of junk in CPAN. Wow, do you have a suggestion how to automatically measure this? Gabor -- 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
