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The first step would be to make the problem visible - show the dependency summary at the cpan search page along side the stars from the reviews. This is a small technical change with the immediate effect of making the installation of modules much less a frustrating fight with an invisible enemy. But what would be more interesting, is the second order social consequences of it because CPAN authors would care more about the installability of their modules.
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Re^4: Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge
by tim.bunce (Scribe) on Feb 21, 2008 at 16:44 UTC
    "The first step would be to make the problem visible - show the dependency summary at the cpan search page"

    I suggested that and a few other changes to the maintainer a few weeks ago. 'Tis done now.

    For example, see http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/

    Note the new "Dependencies" and "Platform/Version Matrix" links. (Plus the new totals counts in grey at the very bottom of all the pages.)

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