As others have said, the version numbers or age of last release can be misleading. I'd suggest you look at the RT via search.cpan.com and see whether there are long unattended bug reports (bad) and whether there are any closed bug reports. If there are no, either it had always been so good that there was no need or no one uses the module. Hard to say which.

I would also place the "Look around" quite a bit higher in the list. The ratings are not used enough to actually be a good indicator of module quality.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re^2: How to choose the right module by Jenda
in thread How to choose the right module by sans2030

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