>From the department of vaguely useful statistics, a histogram showing how many authors have published how many modules. http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/tmp/mod_per_author.txt
and the sloppy program to generate it http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/tmp/mods_per_author.plx Where "module" == the latest version of the distribution (ie. tarball). And "author" == CPANID. Information was gotten from 02packages.index and 01mailto. What does this tell us? *) Number of modules published vs number of authors is logarithmic. *) A large minority of CPAN ids go unused. *) Of those that publish, a majority of CPAN authors publish only one module. *) Very few people publish more than 10 modules. *) Somebody needs to stop Miyagawa before he kills again. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Sometimes you eat the path, sometimes the path eats you.
