From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2011-01-08T01:17:33+09:00
Subject: Re: More gems than CPAN modules?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

> cpan.org shows 21,674 distributions, while rubygems.org shows 19,428 gems.
> I'm not sure what they're scraping.

They count registered modules which is not a meaningful CPAN metric.

Registering a module is something optional, it requires application
etc. That's a fraction of CPAN.

Since "module" is a Perl term (think .pm), to refer to a "library"
CPAN uses the term "distribution", that's what you can compare
numbers with. There are more distributions than gems as of this
writing.