On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, James E Keenan wrote: > May I begin a separate thread for a line of discussion coming up under > the dead camels?
Sure. > I'm going to present empirical observations only; it would be premature > to make suggestions for changes until we heard from more contributors. It's never stopped us before. :) Bru-hahahaha. > Searching via "All": > 1st distro appearing is Test::More as part of Palm-Progect-2.0.1 by Michael > Graham. Schwern's Test::More appears 4th on list. (A) Do we have any idea what tha algorithm it's using is? (B) Could we make an exception/improvement to the algorithm which makes the "real module" come up first? > Searching via "Modules": > 1st distro appearing is Test::More as part of CPAN-1.76 by Andreas J Konig. > Schwern's Test::More does not come up at all among 471 entries found. > > Searching via ""Distributions": > Test::More does not come up at all (C) Couldn't we have a seperate box that comes up on the side of the search results that shows the version/date of the last three releases of a given module X if the search string put in is reasonably obviously referring to a specific module. So it might look something like this when searching for "Foo::Bar", "Foo-Bar", or "foo bar": 1) Irrelevant Result Module Foo::Bar 2) Useless Result v0.1 4-1-1870 3) Misleading Result v0.2 4-1-1970 4) Ancient Result v0.3 4-1-2003 5) Irrelevant Result 6) Irrelevant Result 7) Useful Result too low to see 8) Distracting Result > Issue 2: Which links PAUSE builds when an author uploads a module whose POD > contains links? I'd love to know the answer to this too. > Do others observe similar phenomena? Is it problematic for you? Ironically, search.cpan.org is phenomenal for browsing perl module docs, but it's really strange and bewildering when it comes to searching them. -- </chris> The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)
