Re: Applications on CPAN

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> # from David Nicol (on module-authors) on Sunday 18 April 2010 13:14:
>>Once upon a time, CPAN was supposed to hold applications as well as
>> modules. There were so many more modules than applications that
>> indexing and so on tools for modules entirely eclipsed applications.
>
> This prompted me to dust off an old unfinished thread:  It seems like
> there should be some way to say e.g. "install bin/ack" or "install
> bin/padre" and get the latest App::Ack or Padre.
>
> # from Andreas J. Koenig on Friday 05 September 2008 00:00:
> # Re: addressing scripts as/within distributions
>>The lack of excitement about the scripts category is as old as CPAN.
>>
>>Part of the reason may be that it's so dead easy to wrap a script into
>>a module distro that everybody does it.
>> ....
>>Problem solved, isn't it?
>
> My example case is a distro sans module, so can that be a distro if we
> define something in META.yml for a list of programs contained?

Just a related thought - how about distributions that are only
examples with tests?   There are quite a few modules on CPAN mostly in
the 'adapting X to work with Y' space that could be happily examples
of 'how to use Y with X', but tests do add many additional benefits.



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