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in thread Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge

"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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