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Hi,

I think it would be interesting to have a list like this, because:

  • People want to solve a problem, not to search for 2 hours / module.
  • People still use modules for which there're better replacements/alternatives, because they're used to them.
  • People in doubt want to find others opinion or the main stream.

People with no prior working experience in some fields, need a kind of guide, very often it's: use this module, and this.

I do a lot of search.cpan.org looking at modules and also to the source code, to decide which module i'll use, and sometimes it's a tedious task.

AnnotatedCPAN should be a kind of solution for that, but I would add also a rating system based on some criterias, to have something like the "hottest modules" which will vary depending on the module usage, develpment, etc

And I don't think that the best way to produce better things is forking, or reinventing, things could be refactored; there is also CPAN Forum, RT CPAN, to speak about the development of modules, there's also email and so on, there could be more "community contributed modules". People actually do this, but there're a lot of silent consumers were we don't get feedback...

Regards,

fmerges at irc.freenode.net

In reply to Re: Section proposal: Best CPAN Modules by fmerges
in thread Section proposal: Best CPAN Modules by ptum

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