[sf-perl] the next generation cpan (research and discussion)

[David Fetter]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:30:43PM -0700, Joe Brenner wrote:
> Joe Brenner <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On the subject of "improvements to cpan", [...]
> 
> A lot of people like the idea of publishing cpan download stats to
> use popularity as a guide to quality.

Popular CPAN modules get packaged and shipped with OSs, which means
that to an excellent first approximation no one downloads them from
CPAN.

Cheers,
David.
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