Hi, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM, sawyer x <xsawy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org> wrote: >> sawyer x wrote: >>> People always say "hey, if it's useful for even one person, it should be >>> out there", but these are things that are on >>> purpose only useful and meant for the author. Why upload them? >> >> You can address this question to every Acme:: author. 95% of Acme:: >> modules aren't even useful, though no one complains about this (usually). > > > No, I can't. Acme:: is people sharing jokes, which in most cases aren't > supposed to be "useful", they're JOKES. Author::PAUSEID, > Task::BeLike::PAUSEID and Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::PAUSEID are by people > *not* sharing *anything* with *anyone* except using CPAN as their private > repository. So, yes, there's a major difference.
That is simply not true… I didn't create my own D::Z::PB::A::Melo from scratch, I used the knowledge of others who came before me and wrote their own. I used at least three of them to collect ideas and one of them as the basis for my own. Having those modules on CPAN is good, because you can learn a lot from them. >>> CPAN is not our private repository. It's not our backyard shed, it's not >>> our personal storage. Why keep doing this? >> >> >> I've never seen any description what CPAN is -- apart from the fact it's a >> collection of some Perl modules and scripts. Some of them are not even free. > > Obviously CPAN is a place to upload modules so others can view, share and > use them. Agreed. And how is that description incompatible with Author::MELO::Moo::Roles::Registry or A::M::M::R::UUID, two roles that I reuse on several projects? Can't you look at them and learn from them? Or even look at them and learn never to write stuff like that again, what was he smoking, can I get the phone number of your delaer-type of reaction? > By your claim, I can use CPAN to upload my last YAPC trip pictures (and > hell, replace Flickr), because "I've never seen any description of what CPAN > is". So, no, there isn't a given description, but I think it's pretty > obvious to both of us and anyone on this list and on CPAN. Using generic > excuses as "there's no sign on what goes in the pool, so I can pee in it" > don't help us much here. I don't believe anybody was suggesting uploading anything but Perl code to CPAN… Bye, -- Pedro Melo @pedromelo http://www.simplicidade.org/ http://about.me/melo xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org mailto:m...@simplicidade.org
