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• CPANSTATS (Score:2, Interesting)

  by inkdroid (3294)

  This is a very cool idea, I'm running it from cron now. I've never really understood why CPAN didn't collect these sort of statistics. I particularly liked how you saved the UID in the source code :-)
• Ultra Cool (Score:2, Interesting)

  by malte (1708)

  This is ultra cool. Been waiting for this a very long time.

  I know it won't happen but couldn't we display the information inside search.cpan.org?
• Very interesting data (Score:4, Interesting)

  by mir (51) <xmltwig@gmail.com> on 2003.02.06 8:52 (#16768) Homepage Journal

  A few comments:

  • iIt is really interesting to see the version of each module that users have installed (man, XML::Parser 2.20! That's OLD!),
  • it looks like versions are not sorted quite properly though, if I judge by the data on CGI.pm,
  • It is also quite surprising that only 40 out of 43 users have CGI.pm installed... I thought it was part of the core
  • There sure are a lot of modules in the Canon:: name space ;--)
  • who is running 5.007003? ;--)

  --
  mirod

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  • Re:Very interesting data (Score:4, Interesting)

    by acme (189) on 2003.02.06 9:00 (#16769) Homepage Journal

    I'm using Sort::Versions and it looks like it sometimes go wrong. And now thanks to Mark Fowler, the client now has an --ignore flag, so local modules such as Canon:: don't necessarily get into the stats ;-)

    Interesting reading though.

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  • Re:Very interesting data (Score:2, Informative)

    by nicholas (3034)

    • who is running 5.007003? ;--)

    $ /usr/local/bin/perl5.7.3-64-ld -V:perladmin
perladmin='nick@ccl4.org';

    It generated a lot of warnings and a few failed regression tests while I installed the modules needed to run Léon's script. I see I'm not the only person with a 5.005_03 now, but I'm still the only 5.9.0. (Which is actually what I'm using day to day for development tasks. I don't have anything in production yet, but I suspect I'll use 5.8.0 (or 5.8.1 once it's done) for that)
• Report (Score:2)

  by belg4mit (967)

  If you're going to timestamp the report it would be nice to include the time zone. Also, stating somewhere on the site how often the reports are
  generated would be good. Finally, how are there
  58 users on the current report when I just signed up and have a UID less than 58?

  --
  Were that I say, pancakes?
  • Re:Report (Score:2)

    by acme (189)

    A timezone would be useful but I'm not too worried about it being up to a 24 hours off, to be honest. The report is generated every 10 minutes, I've added a note about that. Oh, and you noticed a bug about the number of users. I used a COUNT where I meant a DISTINCT, oops ;-)

    I think this is a sign that I should stop coding and instead head off to the London.pm social meeting...