This is not a new idea by any means. It was the essence of one of the first threads on the module-authors mailing list I dove into; I made some suggestions there back then. Nothing came of it.

The problem is that the problem is not technical. It’s not for lack of a centralised repository that such discussions of modules in relation to each other are rare. It’s because it’s a whole heap of work to write surveys. Mine was shallow, and it still took a day’s worth of reading docs and comparing; and then another couple of hours to write up my impressions and edit the writeup. For an in-depth review of multiple modules that does them each justice, you’ll have to expend a great deal of effort if it’s going to be meaningful.

Going by how much effort it is to compose such a survey, I think you’d be best served not to try to pool them in one location. Not everyone will know that PerlMonks has such a section. Let whoever is willing to write one up post it wherever they prefer and know of. Look for such surveys and collect a maintained list of links in some prominent place (and that does not mean in a module on CPAN as with CGI::Prototype::Docs::Resources, it most likely means somewhere in a subdomain of perl.org). If this prominent place turns out a useful enough resource, it will naturally accrete reputation over time and with the number of links it accumulates. People will hear about it and refer to it, and authors of new surveys will eventually mention theirs to whoever runs the site as well.

You can’t make that happen by making people go to a central instance first – that will never get off the ground.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: A CPAN related modules section by Aristotle
in thread A CPAN related modules section by metaperl

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