Hi Niels On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 20:09 +0200, Niels Larsen wrote: > Yes, CPAN has very, very useful things. I consider its biggest problems > 1) too difficult to find things when not knowing what one wants, 2) a > huge undergrowth of modules that are either bad quality or unmaintained > or duplicated with a later module. The number of lingering bugs are an > obstacle, yet at the same time super-useful things are "hiding" in plain > view.
Check out http://metacpan.org - it's a GSOC 2011 project that aims to improve cpan search. Tagging and user ranking (plus integration of those into the search results) are next on the feature list clint
