From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2011-01-07T21:51:33+09:00 Subject: Re: More gems than CPAN modules? On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Berger wrote: > On 1/7/11 5:12 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> just saw these figures: >> >> http://www.modulecounts.com/ >> >> Question is whether they are comparing apples and oranges... > > cpan.org shows 21,674 distributions, while rubygems.org shows 19,428 gems. > I'm not sure what they're scraping. Maybe the good old RAA, too. I have no idea if the site controls for multiple identical listings, or how the variants of Gems / modules are counted (QT-Ruby exists for at least Qt 3 and Qt 4, would those count as one gem or two gems? What about wxRuby? Rails? Etc.) The metric itself is debatable, anyway. Different capabilities of the standard libraries lead to different gems/modules, and several gems/modules solve the same problem in different ways. Not to mention if a module/gem is still actively maintained or not (and how would you measure *that*?). -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.