Re: More reasons why the module list is a bad thing

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:30:24PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> Here's another reason that we need a replacement for the modules list: 
> Even the book authors are fooled.  Here's a snippet from the next 
> edition of "Professional Perl Programming", which I'm tech editing 
> right now:
> 
> 	The modules list, which contains details of all the modules 
> 	currently held by CPAN and its many
> 	mirrors is at: http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html.

I am writing a modified version that has a clear announcement at the
top explaining the situation and directing people to other resources.

www.cpan.org no longer has links to it.

Tim.

> Of course, the modules list does NOT list everything on CPAN.  It only 
> listed 2998 of all 6800 distributions on the CPAN on August 18th.  It 
> gives the impression of inclusiveness, when it's only about 40%.