These suggestions were all very helpful. It looks like I can get the data I need by modifying: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CPAN-Testers-ParseReport/bin/ctgetreports
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:41 PM Doug Bell <d...@preaction.me> wrote: > > There's also the "CPAN River", which rates distributions based on how many > descendants depend on them. To my knowledge, those two statistics (platform > and river position) have not been combined for analysis. > This is *precisely* what I wanted to know, and where I was headed with this type of project. I think there is a lot that can be learned from study of that data. > Another option you have to do analysis on large sections of the database > is to build your own database and populate it from the primary database. > The CPAN::Testers::Schema project can do that (using the > "cpantesters-schema fetch" command, which could be enhanced to pull > different sets of data based on criteria other than distribution+version), > and there's docker tools available to spin up a local CPAN Testers > infrastructure in https://github.com/cpan-testers/cpantesters-deploy. > > Once you have a local database, you can use SQL tools to do your analysis, > which will likely be a lot easier than using the API :) > Great! That is the information I was looking for. I'd be very happy to update documents and send patches after I study the CPAN modules referenced in this thread.
