On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:24:57PM +0100, Jose Alves de Castro wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:47, Christopher Hicks wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Hugh S. Myers wrote: > > > > > It seems to me that ANY thing that contributes to the solution set of > > > 'How do I find the module I'm looking for?' needs to be kept until it > > > can be replaced with something of equal or greater value. > > > > search.cpan.org seems to be of greater value than the modules list > > according to most of the people that have chimed in. > > Try asking beginners what they think. I believe it is easier for them to > look at a long list of modules then searching for a specific one, > particularly because they often don't know what they should be looking > for.
The problem is that the list is missing many modules and in some cases it is missing "the right module" for a particular job while listing other inferior modules and since no one is adding to the list, this can only get worse. > Anyway, I like to have a long list of modules to show my Java friends > and say "see?" If we had keywords you could just search on a keyword and show them that list instead, F
