On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:37:01PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Or make is_prereq SO easy to game that it's a nonissue? Why should a > module depended upon by another author be ranked any higher than one > that isn't.
For CPANTS I see no reason. For search results quite the opposite. I'd really like if if the default way people got search results back for CPAN modules at least attempted to order at some level based on citations. (ie number of pre-requisites) For example, I believe that that way the 4 or so decent template modules would fall out immediately from the 50 others on CPAN. And that this is worth doing because the commonly used templating modules are almost certainly what most people who need to search would find more than good enough. Rather than letting them fight through bogosorted results and getting swamped by choice. But it seems that there is something amiss with the roundness of my stock of tuits. (or in other words there are things I find I care more about and deal with first) Nicholas Clark
