* Scott W Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-14 19:38]: > It would be interesting to calculate the "importance" of a > module by how many other modules link to it, either via a use > statement or by reference in the POD, much like Google does > with Web page links.
I was thinking the same thing, and I remember that someone actually posted results from working code for something like that a while back. I don't have the time to dig through the archives right now, or I'd shake it up. > There's a project called Nutch that has abstracted out much of > PageRank and that sort of thing that would be useful, if > anybody is interested. Nutch is written in Java, unfortunately > for we Perl folks, but isn't too hard to work with. :) And as Lucene/Plucene show, it doesn't have to be difficult to reimplement good libraries in Perl, either. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
