On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:08:34 -0400 James E Keenan <jkee...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 09/20/2017 06:01 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > > One thing we could do is have a tool looking at newly registered > > package names and alert the PAUSE admins to have a look at any that > > are a short edit distance from an existing package name. > > Would anyone know of any prior art for detection of "short edit > distances"? (Perhaps even already on CPAN?) Isn't that just the Levenshtein distance? So e.g. Neil's Text::Levenshtein? One thing I thing is good to consider is the fact that all CPAN releases get announced on a quite populated IRC channel, increasing the chance of someone spotting a release announcement and thinking "hmm, that looks dodgy" - but that's of course not entirely reliable, and doesn't focus only on new releases.
