On Jul 17, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Smylers wrote:
Warning: Wild conjecture and multiple unrelated crazy ideas ahead.
This is becoming _way_ too complicated.
Agreed.
And I still reckon most humans are approximately appalling at picking
appropriate keywords anyway. A system like you're proposing still
requires an individual module's author to think of the right keywords
and bother to do this, which is putting a single-point of failure in the
system.
Agreed.
However, improved Cpan searching would be welcome.
Agreed. Note that the primary contribution of search.cpan.org is that it has a really nice interface and lots of functionality. But its actual search algorithm still isn't very good (it just uses WAIT, IIRC) - I think we could get far more mileage out of tuning the search engine better for the needs of perl-module searching, and perhaps doing stuff like grouping the results by distribution, than we'd ever get this way. And we wouldn't need to add complexity to the modules themselves.
Smylers, I think your proposal is interesting but I don't think it's necessary for improving searching over CPAN modules.
-Ken
