> 1. Compose a list of CPAN distros starting with those farthest up river, i.e., distros that only depend on the perl 5 core. Within that set of distros I'd like to order them from most reverse dependencies to fewest. Then go down river from there.
David Golden has a script for generating the CPAN river heirarchy -- the last run of this that I know of (at least, it's the data I've been working off of) is at https://gist.github.com/xdg/af7a32c5b21d45a6b255. It lists the distributions in their position on the CPAN river, and their top 5 users (reverse dependencies). This would be a natural place to start testing, and determining which branches of the river have blockages (the first instance of a no-dot-in-INC issue). David, can you generate a fresh copy? Karen Etheridge, et...@cpan.org
