"why can't CPAN give such a helpful search results" ... because it can't.

  1. Relevance - looks to me like this is how it's sorted. The relevance according to your search against the module names and descriptions.
  2. Activity - activity may mean something useful for big projects, where there's (almost) always what to add, what to improve, what to fix. This is not the case with small libraries. There are often used, recommended modules, that had not been updated in months. Sometimes years. Because there's no need to add anything, nothing to fix and the author not the users feel the need to improve what works well and is tested and proven.
  3. Rank - please define.
  4. Registered - you mean the date? I don't see how would it help.
  5. Latest file - see above about Activity.
  6. Downloads - no we can't give that. Keep in mind that CPAN is not a centralized resource. It's comprised of many mirrors ... you can't get the download statistics for all. Plus you would have to add the stats from PPM repositories. Otherwise the numbers especially for Windows related modules would be almost zero.

With all this said ... what would you base your Rank on? There are some reviews and some ratings, but there are far too few to be dependable.

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In reply to Re: Too many alternatives in CPAN by Jenda
in thread Too many alternatives in CPAN by targetsmart

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