Cpanratings etc - Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

[Andy Armstrong]

On 22 Oct 2007, at 17:45, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
>> More specifically why does search.cpan.org have such a hard time  
>> with one word module names? Try finding CGI.pm - or as I did this  
>> week in response to Lyle's module - FCGI.pm. You'd think that  
>> typing FCGI into the search box would do the trick, right? Nope.  
>> FCGI.pm? Nope. FastCGI? Nope. It's effectively completely broken  
>> for that case.
>
> Since I can't snoop the code that search.cpan.org uses

You know, that bugs me. Obviously nobody is obliged to release the  
source to any particular thing - but it seems anomalous that the  
source for search.cpan.org isn't available for the community to  
peruse and, possibly, improve. It's such a key piece in the Perl jigsaw.

> , I can't go and fix this as I would like to.   However, in  
> principle, biasing towards short module names certainly ought to be  
> possible, and I agree that it's desirable.  I experienced the same  
> frustration a while back searching for the exact same module.

I'm not sure that's the nature of the problem. I've just looked  
through the first fifteen pages of results and I can't see CGI.pm  
there - but there are other short matches - including a match for  
'cgi' which probably isn't the one you want.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten