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The rockstar option (Score:1)
In the same frame of mind, there's an idea I've been toying with for some time... It's not rare to have the music instruments used by a band listed in a CD booklet. As programmers aren't that different from rock stars, it'd be nifty to be able to do the same thing. I mean, if Nick Krachmeister can say that he's playing exclusively Howling Kitty Stratocasters then, by Joves, I should be able to say that I use XML::LibXML to craft my masterpieces! :-)
The implementation could be as simple as putting a file called, say, 'module.recommendations' in your CPAN directory listing all the modules you use and recommend (also maybe modules you tried and will never touch again without a EVA-suit). Something like:
XML::LibXML
Catalyst
-Something::God::Awful # stay clear, it'll frob your noggle!
After that, you put a little spider to work and, hop!, you get an idea of what other peeps are using to get the job done. That could lead to educating results.
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That idea has been tossed around for years. The JFDI suggestion was for people to upload personal bundles (ie. you’d stick Bundle::YANICK in your CPAN directory). You don’t need a lot of new machinery to accommodate that. But we’d probably need a web interface or something to make managing that bundle very easy before people will do it in significant numbers – or at the very least it would need to be widely advertised as a social convention among module authors.
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Well, looks like there's one more cool project I have to throw at the top of the Holiday Hacking pile.:-)