The question I have is, what list of modules should we attempt to build?
Is there a nice list in descending order by download frequency? Do the
CPAN people keep those stats?
Funny you should ask. A similar question was asked at the recent CPAN meeting in London.
Below is a count of downloads that were made via search.cpan.org between Aug 20 and Aug 29 for all tar.gz files downloaded 100 or more times
Graham.
1961 /CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.38.tar.gz 1252 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RU/RUDY/DBD-mysql-2.9002.tar.gz 1103 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.69.tar.gz 1022 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.31.tar.gz 649 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/URI-1.25.tar.gz 635 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.27.tar.gz 618 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RU/RUDY/DBD-mysql-2.9003_1.tar.gz 574 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MIME-Base64-2.20.tar.gz 553 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/Time-HiRes-1.51.tar.gz 506 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz 495 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/Jcode-0.82.tar.gz 482 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz 469 /CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.07.tar.gz 466 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/HTML-Tagset-3.03.tar.gz 463 /CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STBEY/Date-Calc-5.3.tar.gz 439 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/libnet-1.16.tar.gz 421 /CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.14.tar.gz 413 /CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.22.tar.gz 407 /CPAN/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/IO-stringy-2.108.tar.gz 394 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-1.60.tar.gz 391 /CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.806.tar.gz 364 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SAMPO/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25.tar.gz 352 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-SHA1-2.04.tar.gz 349 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/TimeDate-1.16.tar.gz 343 /CPAN/authors/id/N/NI/NI-S/Tk800.025.tar.gz 325 /CPAN/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-tools-5.411a.tar.gz 322 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.09.tar.gz 322 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/libnet-1.17.tar.gz 311 /CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-3.00.tar.gz 286 /CPAN/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-tools-6.200_02.tar.gz 284 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MV/MVERB/GDGraph-1.43.tar.gz 278 /CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMPOTTER/Net-Pcap-0.04.tar.gz 270 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JS/JSTOWE/TermReadKey-2.21.tar.gz 266 /CPAN/authors/id/C/CR/CREIN/Net-DNS-0.40.tar.gz 256 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MU/MUIR/modules/Time-modules-2003.0211.tar.gz 254 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.29.tar.gz 253 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz 252 /CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz 248 /CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.06.tar.gz 246 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.42.tar.gz 245 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Convert-ASN1-0.17.tar.gz 240 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.47.tar.gz 237 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Unicode-String-2.07.tar.gz 236 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/MailTools-1.59.tar.gz 231 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JR/JROGERS/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz 226 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219.tar.gz 225 /CPAN/authors/id/P/PH/PHISH/XML-LibXML-1.56.tar.gz 222 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-HMAC-1.01.tar.gz 220 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DT/DTOWN/Net-SNMP-4.1.2.tar.gz 215 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/DBD-Pg-1.22.tar.gz 212 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SAMTREGAR/HTML-Template-2.6.tar.gz 207 /CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.30.tar.gz 200 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.17.tar.gz 198 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/DateManip-5.42a.tar.gz 194 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-SAX-0.12.tar.gz 189 /CPAN/authors/id/O/OY/OYAMA/Net-MySQL-0.08.tar.gz 189 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-1.94.tar.gz 187 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MV/MVERB/GDTextUtil-0.86.tar.gz 184 /CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz 182 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JC/JCRISTY/PerlMagick-5.57.tar.gz 176 /CPAN/authors/id/B/BE/BEHROOZI/IO-Socket-SSL-0.95.tar.gz 175 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KANE/Archive-Tar-1.05.tar.gz 170 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWITKNR/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2602.tar.gz 170 /CPAN/authors/id/A/AM/AMS/Storable-2.08.tar.gz 167 /CPAN/authors/id/Y/YV/YVES/MIME-Lite-3.01.tar.gz 162 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-1.2.tar.gz 148 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DM/DMEGG/XML-Writer-0.4.tar.gz 148 /CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABW/Template-Toolkit-2.10.tar.gz 147 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MG/MGRABNAR/File-Tail-0.98.tar.gz 146 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/File-Spec-0.85.tar.gz 142 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RJ/RJRAY/Image-Size-2.992.tar.gz 138 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/HTML-Tree-3.18.tar.gz 137 /CPAN/authors/id/T/TJ/TJMATHER/XML-DOM-1.43.tar.gz 134 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RB/RBERJON/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.08.tar.gz 134 /CPAN/authors/id/B/BT/BTROTT/Net-SSH-Perl-1.23.tar.gz 132 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RS/RSE/lcwa-1.0.0.tar.gz 132 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JW/JWIED/Text-CSV_XS-0.23.tar.gz 131 /CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWARTZ/Unicode-Map-0.112.tar.gz 127 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KC/KCARNUT/Net-Pcap-0.05.tar.gz 125 /CPAN/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/IO-Tty-1.02.tar.gz 125 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KU/KULCHENKO/SOAP-Lite-0.55.tar.gz 124 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.28.tar.gz 124 /CPAN/authors/id/C/CN/CNANDOR/MP3-Info-1.02.tar.gz 123 /CPAN/authors/id/I/IL/ILYAM/Data-Dumper-2.121.tar.gz 123 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/Jcode-0.83.tar.gz 120 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-DES-2.03.tar.gz 119 /CPAN/authors/id/T/TJ/TJENNESS/File-Temp-0.14.tar.gz 119 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Image-Info-1.12.tar.gz 117 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWITKNR/OLE-Storage_Lite-0.11.tar.gz 116 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/IO-String-1.02.tar.gz 113 /CPAN/authors/id/Y/YV/YVES/MIME-Lite-3.01_02.tar.gz 113 /CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STBEY/Bit-Vector-6.3.tar.gz 113 /CPAN/authors/id/K/KM/KMACLEOD/libxml-perl-0.07.tar.gz 113 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JM/JMASON/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz 110 /CPAN/authors/id/M/ME/MERGL/pgsql_perl5-1.9.0.tar.gz 108 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/MD5-2.02.tar.gz 107 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JO/JOESUF/libapreq-1.2.tar.gz 102 /CPAN/authors/id/A/AT/ATRAK/NetPacket-0.04.tar.gz 100 /CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHERZODR/CGI-Session-3.95.tar.gz 100 /CPAN/authors/id/J/JU/JURL/DBD-ODBC-1.06.tar.gz 100 /CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSM/SNMP-4.2.0.tar.gz 100 /CPAN/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/Crypt-Blowfish-2.09.tar.gz
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