metacpan-web VS codethesaur.us

In January 2018, I proposed a CPAN Butterfly Plan to convert Perl functionality to Raku as closely as possible to the original API. I stated this as a goal because Perl (as a programming language) is so much more than syntax alone. Ask anyone what Perl's unique selling point is, and they will most likely tell you it is CPAN.

MetaCPAN. There are a number of project in the Perl community. This is one of the most interesting ones. source code

Perl has numerous modules for practically everything. Try a search on https://metacpan.org for anything that takes your fancy.

I can point to the module library metacpan.org that has modules to do tons of different things -- I don't know what equivalent resouorce Python has.

A good place for this issue would be https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web

All language package index websites are a poor imitation of metacpan.org. Without a doubt it is the single best package website I have used for finding packages, reading docs, examples, version changes, source repo. Everybody should be shamelessly copying it.

While the indicates that this is a Windows-related thing, there are a number of packages on CPAN that are in the Win32 namespace, but also work on Linux. This one, it seems does not. It seems at least one of its dependencies, the Win32-API does not work on anything else besides Windows.

A Perl distribution is an archive of files that includes a Perl module. There are no official rules on what non-module files must be included in a distribution, but they often include (among other things) test scripts, a Makefile.PL, documentation, and the license. These distributions are commonly uploaded to CPAN, which is a place for Perl programmers to upload their Perl distributions for the purpose of sharing their code.

If there are modules being used, you can read their documentation using the perldoc command or looking online at https://metacpan.org

Sarah Withee has been live pair programming and working on Code Thesaurus You might want to check her videos as well and maybe ask her if she wants to work with you.

I found a project asking help for updating their README to show correct directions for Mac, and how to set up the virtual environment, click https://github.com/codethesaurus/codethesaur.us/issues/60 to check the details of the issue. And this one seems like a real project which does need some help, instead of just being created to help people finish Hacktoberfest tasks. I did some research and tried on my MacBook Air and helped with the update, and sent the PR, https://github.com/codethesaurus/codethesaur.us/pull/63/commits/f9651d37c2186a4055873aa2ccd373c5df7add61 to the owner. The owner was very kind and responded. It has not been checked and merged yet. If there is any update or more response, I will modifications based on their request.