Re^2: Help update the Phalanx 100

Wow, excluding the top 1% of downloaders. Brilliant.

Something else to think about: I'm not concerned about absolute rankings so much as developing strata, as in http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/distros.html. I see this sort of like those "Greatest Albums Of All Time" lists. Maybe you can argue about whether Let It Bleed should come before or after Abbey Road, but both belong in the top 10, well before Pleased To Meet Me or Sign O' The Times.

xoxo,
Andy

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Re^3: Help update the Phalanx 100 by xdg (Monsignor) on Dec 21, 2004 at 18:15 UTC
In my occasional noodlings on this topic, I've wondered what the dependency graph looks like. Which modules are most frequently used in other modules? (Including the recursion -- if A uses B and B uses C, D, and E, then the existence of A should increment the dependency count of C, D, and E, too.) Presumably, core modules would have the most links, but there are likely a second strata of heavily used utility modules, and so on out to narrow, single-purpose modules for particular applications. (Though those could also be very popular and worth of inclusion in a top 100 list.) -xdg Code posted by xdg on PerlMonks is public domain. It has no warranties, express or implied. Posted code may not have been tested. Use at your own risk.	[reply]

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Re^3: Help update the Phalanx 100
by xdg (Monsignor) on Dec 21, 2004 at 18:15 UTC

In my occasional noodlings on this topic, I've wondered what the dependency graph looks like. Which modules are most frequently used in other modules? (Including the recursion -- if A uses B and B uses C, D, and E, then the existence of A should increment the dependency count of C, D, and E, too.) Presumably, core modules would have the most links, but there are likely a second strata of heavily used utility modules, and so on out to narrow, single-purpose modules for particular applications. (Though those could also be very popular and worth of inclusion in a top 100 list.)

-xdg

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