Who was it who was working on the global CPAN dependency graph, to
figure out what module was dependent on what? Whatever became of that? I
think hard numbers that stand on their own merits are about the only way
to get new stuff into core. Let the early adopters try out non-CPAN
low-level modules. Then after a while, see what floats to the top.
There's a couple of people working on this in dribs and drabs, me included.
With the new DBIx::Loader module coming out soon, and having SQLite
support, I'm planning on merging Data::Package::SQLite with DBIx::Class
so you can point a class at a SQLite URI and it will just sort of
download and unfold itself into a full CDBI-like interface to the data.
And with that, we get much much easier access to the datasets generated
by CPANTs, CPAN Testers, and a few other things.
Which makes dependency graphs and such much much more trivial, and more
likely to be available from something you just grab from CPAN.
(and once I get my CPAN SQLite index, you get CDBI-like access to the
index too, like JSAN has)
Adam K
