On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Anyway, I invite everybody to suggest new metrics
I'd like the "is pre-req" thing to be more useful. Rather than a binary yes/no thing (and the abuses it leads to), I'd rather have something akin to Google's Page Rank, where the score you get is based not just on the number of other modules who "link" to you, but how large their score is in turn. Schwern already gave a good example of this: Ima::DBI. It really only has one other module for which it's a pre-req: Class::DBI. But that in turn has quite a few others. So Ima::DBI should somehow get the benefit of that. And if all you're used by is 10 Acme:: modules written by yourself... Tony
