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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by ffffruit on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:13AM (#2230771)
I use Perl every day in product/home and have contributed numerous modules on CPAN. The "Ratings" argument is very very thin. Yes, CPAN does have a ratings system ; nobody uses it. Even very very popular and well-written modules, for example Data::Dumper, have below 10 ratings.
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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by jrockway on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:55AM (#2230880)
But Data::Dumper is a core module, so that's a bit of a special case as far as CPAN ratings goes.
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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by wazoox on Friday February 18, 2011 @07:56AM (#2235213)
Yes, the problem with the ratings is that it necessitates a bitcard account, alas. Would it be more open, there could be many more ratings.
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