in reply to Modest Proposal - A Field Guide to CPAN

Personally I see no reason why a Module Review function would be out of place here at the monastery. You could start your own by doing a post titled something like "CPAN REVIEW: DBI" (mostly harmless). But I would like to see it done right.

Having said that Im doubtful that those who really decide these things would be supportive of the idea. Unfortunately. All I can say is that if the gods are supportive then ill put some time in to make it work.


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Re: Re: Modest Proposal (for a CPAN review function)
by hsmyers (Canon) on Mar 04, 2004 at 20:06 UTC
    Judging by the response so far, it doesn't look good. It occurred to me last night that I should have added an example or two, but I thought most would understand what I was talking about. I certainly didn't mean that this should replace searching CPAN---rather that it would make it easier to find the module(s) a person was looking for when they don't know the title, only the function. Just as a for instance, see Appendix A in Perl Pocket Reference. I'd particularly like it if the document was 'live' (i.e. html) and linked to CPAN. I suppose the thing to do is to go ahead and create an initial version, post it and see what happens. Thanks, BTW for the offer.

    --hsm

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