On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:43:38PM +0100, Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:There is nothing stopping anyone on this list prototyping their own improved substitute for search.cpan.org. (although it helps if you have a public facing webserver if you want to show it to others).
Yet no-one does.
I'm working on it. I've already pulled the minicpan (a la Randal's mini mirror) and I'm working on the Template Toolkit-fu to make reasonable pages.
If anyone's interested in helping out, let me know.
Looks like you and Simon should collaborate. Is it possible or realistic for it to have pluggable search & browse engines. I still think sourceforge-like hierchical catagories (Topics) in META.yml would make for good light-weight search and improved by-catagory browsing (modules can list multiple catagories). There may be other usefull info in META.yml like OS Platform and requirements, etc that could be used in advanced searches. Also, some info might be pulled from cpanratings.
Web development is not my area, but I've been trying to remedy that. I've been trying to setup a local cpanratings to play with and hopefully do some work on, but it's going slow right now. When I do get up to speed, I'd be willing to do some work...
Randy.
