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in thread The quantity vs. quality lesson

I will help an/several order(s) of magnitude less people, than if CPAN natively provided such a voting/commentary mechanism.

Which it does. We have:

All of which are integrated into http://search.cpan.org/.

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Re: Re^3: The quantity vs. quality lesson
by PetaMem (Priest) on Jun 01, 2004 at 10:09 UTC
    Good links, and I must admit (that's a big shame on me), that I didn't know them before. I looked at cpanratings, and am very glad, that they are honest. Unfortunatedly: Where are the consequences?

    That is: If a module gets beaten by the cpanratings nearly to death, where is the mark (yes - call it stigma if you like). Every potential CPAN user should see it on a prominent place prior to download.

    Bye
     PetaMem         All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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      That is: If a module gets beaten by the cpanratings nearly to death, where is the mark (yes - call it stigma if you like). Every potential CPAN user should see it on a prominent place prior to download.

      The rating is on prominent display on http://search.cpan.org. As is the pass/fail rate for the tests. Along with a link to the RT bug tracking system. For example see the page for my Test::Exception distribution.

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        The rating is on prominent

        True for the link you provided, not true for the general case. If I search for Text:: modules, I get a bunch of results, if I then inspect these, you see: nothing.

        Ok, probably I use CPAN the wrong way, but for the past few years this way is how I get an overview.

        Bye
         PetaMem             All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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