> CPAN is better than its equivalents. The consistent documentation style and location, focus on tests, and so on is excellent. Miss CPAN. > focus on tests …w

> CPAN is better than its equivalents. The consistent documentation style and location, focus on tests, and so on is excellent. Miss CPAN. > focus on tests …which at critical moments may turn out to be just LARPing. I had to rewrite some tests for a dependency of a dependency of my project so that they had any meaning at all. The test suite was unchanged for a decade and it had been talking to some random web services on the internets. There is an unanswered bug report that tests have stopped passing entirely some years ago. Another project failed its tests due to a dependency being bumped, and there was a fixing suggestion unanswered since 2014. I don’t know if the author is actually alive. I guess it’s soothing to see an endless output of “ok test x” from a test suite, makes you believe the project is real solid, or something.