On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, David Manura wrote: > Since there has been some discussion recently on improving search.cpan.org > search results, here's an initial attempt to apply the Google-inspired PageRank > algorithm on Perl modules when interpreting module dependencies as links:
> ========= CPAN top 10 ============= > > XML::Parser : 7.68246933302234 First, good job! Then a comment on the area I know best, that shows the limits of the method (which doesn't mean that it is not useful, au contraire, just that the results should come with a warning). I don't know whether it's the same in other cases: lots of modules depend on XML::Parser, but that doesn't make it the right tool to use to parse XML. In fact one of the reason so many other modules were written on top of XML::Parser is that there is quite a bit of a learning curve when you start using it. -- Michel Rodriguez Perl & XML http://www.xmltwig.com
