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in thread The quantity vs. quality lesson

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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Re: Re^5: The quantity vs. quality lesson
by PetaMem (Priest) on Jun 01, 2004 at 14:10 UTC
    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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      True for the link you provided, not true for the general case

      Is so 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.

      Follow the link to the distribution page at the top of the documentation page (also on the search results page) and you'll see the links I talked about. They're there for every distribution on CPAN.

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        He's got a point though -- it would be nice, when you get 5-10 pages of results, to be able to see immediately which ones suck (or even to sort by inverse suckage!), without having to click through to each.
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