Re^4: Perceptions of Perl - views from the edge

[tim.bunce]

"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.)