You are right about CPAN. CPAN's hugeness and uneven quality... ... "How can I know if Bob's brand new version 0.03 module is better than Joe's 3-year old version 9.72 module?" I see this problem as insoluble...
CPANTS (http://cpants.dev.zsi.at/) is probably a step in the right direction (though it doesn't appear to be linked to from search.cpan.org - right?).
I see in my bookmarks Perl Monks Module Reviews (http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=30794), which seems to be a bit limited, and somewhat stale. Also not linked to from search.cpan.org.
The ratings (on cpanratings.perl.org) linked to from search.cpan.org sometimes help.
But one of the gaps is finding comparative information. i.e. is Net::Server better or worse than Net::Daemon? And for what kinds of problems?
Given that equivalent modules are often not grouped together in the hierarchy, just finding out what the other modules are can be a challenge.
I chatted with Ask about adding some mechanism to search.cpan.org to allow linking to related modules, and he was open to the idea, and welcomed me to volunteer code to implement it. Unfortunately I didn't follow through by providing said code. Perhaps a Boston.pm'er might want to collaborate on this.
-Tom
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