Re: Top Level Module Namespace Table

I gather that most experienced Perlers see no need for this table

Welcome to the Perl Bubble. Your idea is so obvious, necessary, and useful that many otherwise brilliant people will under- or over-think it into oblivion. CPAN would be vastly friendlier if it was browsable via an ontological index. There are such indexes but alas they are not maintained, perhaps you should volunteer to fix that oversight?

https://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/

https://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/

https://www.cpan.org/scripts/index.html

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Re^2: Top Level Module Namespace Table by LanX (Saint) on Mar 07, 2020 at 21:33 UTC
Actually we just had an ontology expert at the GP(R)W.° The most memorable quote from this conference was from his talk: "Vocabulary is like worn underwear, nobody wants to reuse it from someone else." But I'll ask him if he thinks automating an ontology is really feasible in CPAN. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) apparently is Perl the dominating language in German library IT systems ...	[reply]
Re^2: Top Level Module Namespace Table by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 07, 2020 at 20:51 UTC
You’re replying to a 10 year-old node from a monk who has been absent for 6 years. :P Module curation does sound like a really good idea.	[reply]
Re^3: Top Level Module Namespace Table by Anonymous Monk on Mar 08, 2020 at 07:10 UTC
You’re replying to a 10 year-old node from a monk who has been absent for 6 years. I'm just jumping on the bandwagon after some other anon resurrected the node. As for the whereabouts of OP, who really knows? I've had accounts on this site that make it look like I've been absent for well over a decade. But the OP is irrelevant now that LanX has been inspired to consult an ontology expert on the feasability of fixing CPAN. I know it's feasable because I've implemented an automated ontology to browse thousands of installed modules, which I use daily, and would feel somewhat lost without. Module curation does sound like a really good idea. That's what I wanted to hear! Thank you for listening.	[reply]