Issues like this are why I have tried to stay away from CPAN. It seems like the Perl community needs a better system. While CPAN serves as a good Perl code dump, it would be nice to also have a system for serious projects that has more in the way of services and accountability. Is there anything out there that is like a SourceForge for Perl? Does the Perl community leverage sites like SourceForge at all? It would be nice if module owners were forced to document more system requirements and module attributes like "Is it cross-platform?", "Does it wrap shell commands?", "What libraries are required?". These kinds of things sometimes get documented in the POD, but that does not allow for good searching/browsing of available modules. I hope this does not sound like a flame, I just felt this would be a good thread to air my frustrations. I am still a bit of a Perl novice, so take this as an outside perspective on CPAN and the Perl community.

In reply to Re: Is it worth tracking down absent cpan owners? by cerelib
in thread Is it worth tracking down absent cpan owners? by jfroebe

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