On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:15:25AM -0500, elaine wrote: > > Well, you know, CPAN and BackPAN /are/ archives...there are a lot of > crap books in every library that noone reads much but will occasionally > get sent out on loan :) They don't eat much space and, aside from ones > parked on a good namespace with clear neglect, they're mostly not worth > the stress of getting fussy over.
I don't mind that there are a lot of rarely modules that are still accessible. I mind when they show up in search results and I have to wade through them to get to the juicy modules. There is not an easy way to distinguish the signal from the noise on CPAN. That's what the CPANTS [1] proposal was targeted to address. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Module::CPANTS > On the other end of the spectrum is > Acme::Current which noone seems to be making noise about. At least a couple of us are: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2978 I think it's a stale joke that's wasting new resources daily. Mark
