npm, PyPi overtake CPAN

[Aaron Trevena]

On 24 May 2013 05:43, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 May 2013 01:31, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>> http://modulecounts.com/
>>
>> ... with Rubygems screaming ahead since overtaking CPAN a couple of years
>> ago. And the hugeness of Maven Central.
>>
> I had a deeper look at thisin a bit more depth before I got snowed
> under at work http://blogs.perl.org/users/hashbangperl/2013/03/comparing-apples-and-oranges---rubygems-vs-cpan-part-2.html

A couple of things worth mentioning are firstly that several issues
mentioned in that blog and elsewhere are being addressed
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2098/the-annotated-lancaster-consensus/
and also if you look at rubygems uploads it's an astonishingly high
proportion of undocumented version 0.001 abandonware.

A.

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