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• I don't trust those numbers (Score:1)

  by Arador (8415)

  Msql-Mysql-modules for example has only 50 dependencies (http://cpants.perl.org/dist/used_by/Msql-Mysql-modules), none of them particularly common ones. HTTP-BrowserDetect has only 8. There's no way those could have ended up so highly.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671)

    My own results of this kind of analysis at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/88746/cpan-prereqs.json.txt [getdropbox.com] gave Msql-Mysql-modules a (very high) score of 21530, which backs up Alias's numbers. I can look at generating detailed dumps later today.

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    rjbs
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671)

    HTML-Widgets-Index requires DBD::mysql, which is part of Msql-Mysql-modules. CPANTS thinks that HTML-Widgets-Index is very well-used, because it thinks that it is the provider of the module "Test":

    http://cpants.perl.org/dist/used_by/HTML- [perl.org]
    Widgets-Index

    http://cpants.perl.org/dist/provides/HTML-Widgets-Index [perl.org]

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    rjbs
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Arador (8415)

      Likewise, HTTP::BrowserDetect depends on HTML-Widgets-Index and FreeWRL 'provides' Config.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Arador (8415)

        Oops, I meant of course HTML-Widgets-Index depends on HTTP::BrowserDetect.
• Requires vs Recommends (Score:2)

  by barbie (2653)

  Taking 'Tie-TinyURL' as an example, it requires 'Test', which is why it lists 'HTML-Widgets-Index' as being dependent. Except that Tie-TinyURL doesn't use 'Test' anywhere. I suspect this is a hangover for when it was ported to use Test::More, which it does use. This threw up a couple of ideas to help filter the results you're getting to something that is perhaps a little more relevent.

  1. Filter based on the 'requires' and/or 'recommends' entries in META.yml. If there is no META.yml, assume all pre-requisites
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    > 1. Filter based on the 'requires' and/or 'recommends' entries in META.yml. If there is no META.yml, assume all pre-requisites are required.

    I'm working on this one already, separating the weight and volatility graphs out into the different dependency layers (configure, build and runtime).

    > It would be helpful if authors noted the 'has_tests_in_t_dir' CPANTS indicator, but then CPANTS listing 'HTML-Widgets-Index' as the definitive source of 'Test' probably needs investigating. 02packages.details.txt.g