Related module links on search.cpan.org

Documentation pages on search.cpan.org now contain a list of related modules. For an example see LWP::UserAgent

This list is determined by data created by Perlmonks.org about which modules are discussed together.

Comments

[Tim Bunce]

Cool.

Curious that this should arrive at about the same time that Andy posted http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/rethinking-the-interface-to-cpan.html

Tim.

p.s. I think the boxes on the right need another pixel or two of internal padding. They look quite cramped at the moment.

[Tim Bunce]

The "more..." link doesn't seem to work.

On http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.604/DBI.pm there are several Related Modules shown,
but the "more..." link takes me to http://perlmonks.org/?node=cpan+module+search&pivot=1&module=DBI which shows no results.

[John McNamara]

There seems to be a mismatch between the "related modules" reported on the Speadsheet::WriteExcel on the search.cpan page: http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel/lib/Spreadsheet/WriteExcel.pm:

* Apache::DB
* HTML::Embperl
* Archive::Tar
* HTML::Mason
* ...

And the related modules reported on Perlmonks (via the more link): http://perlmonks.org/?node=cpan+module+search&pivot=1&module=Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

* Win32::OLE
* Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
* Excel::Template
* Parse::RecDescent
* ...

I would say that the latter modules are related whilst the former aren't.

John.
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[Graham Barr]

John,

There was a bug in the sorting which is now fixed.

[Graham Barr]

Tim,

The code perlmonks currently uses to detect module names requires a :: so modules like DBI and CGI will not get picked up.

They are working on fixing this, but in the meantime I manually added some into the database that search.cpan.org uses for the DBI module