On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:30:24PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > Here's another reason that we need a replacement for the modules list: > Even the book authors are fooled. Here's a snippet from the next > edition of "Professional Perl Programming", which I'm tech editing > right now: > > The modules list, which contains details of all the modules > currently held by CPAN and its many > mirrors is at: http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html.
I am writing a modified version that has a clear announcement at the top explaining the situation and directing people to other resources. www.cpan.org no longer has links to it. Tim. > Of course, the modules list does NOT list everything on CPAN. It only > listed 2998 of all 6800 distributions on the CPAN on August 18th. It > gives the impression of inclusiveness, when it's only about 40%.
