On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:43:38PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > There is nothing stopping anyone on this list prototyping their own > improved substitute for search.cpan.org. (although it helps if you have > a public facing webserver if you want to show it to others). > > Yet no-one does.
Randy Kobes did: http://kobesearch.cpan.org/ But apparently it's not sufficiently better or sufficiently well known to come up in "future of CPAN" conversations much. At least the code for it is easily available: http://cpan-search.sourceforge.net/ It uses mod_perl and Template Toolkit. Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Stosberg Principal Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites . . . . . http://www.summersault.com/ . . . . . . . .