Frankly, I like the idea.

The Wiki concept simply will not work from my point of view however. Too much mediation required.

Having very briefly perused the AnnoCPAN mods, there does seem to be a pretty good start in place.

I am asking myself how I would use this...

Apparently the original author intended for there to be a centralized location for a large public db as well as a 'personal' one for ones own use and reference. I would be very interested in the second, and somewhat less interested in the first. I am certain one could find a large volume of pretty good knowledge from that public repository, but I am guessing the queries would be templated, dictated, or minimally flexible.

The local one however could be much more open, perhaps allowing one to simply write SQL directly against the DB.

I wonder if one could grab from the public server only those comments/notes for those modules which are installed locally?

What does one do if one is using 2 or 3 versions of Perl locally? A db for each lib of mods? There are a lot of ways one could go with this!

I can think of a lot of ways that this could be very useful to me, but it would depend on whether I have a clear understanding of the way a local comment/note repository did or did not interact with the larger/public/central one.

Fun stuff!

...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it...
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

In reply to Re: Why not a "living" PerlDoc? Others have it, why not Perl? by wjw
in thread Why not a "living" PerlDoc? Others have it, why not Perl? by taint

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