On May 23, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
Would a sort of taggable search scheme and/or collaborative
categorization help? That is, "implements functionality" modules
(e.g.
Net::FTP, LWP::UserAgent) seem easier to find and navigate than data
structure modules. Maybe that has something to do with the subtle
differences in data structures and the number of possible names for
any
given structure/variation?
I think that's part of it. But another problem is that many people
don't know the "official" names for the data structures they're
thinking of, e.g. "trie" or "skiplist" or whatever, so they can't
search very effectively for it.
It does seem like a user-applied keyword tagging scheme on CPAN (e.g.
search.cpan.org) would be very fruitful and would go a long way
toward solving a lot of the organization-related problems people
bring up on this list.
-Ken
