I doubt those figures are (meant to be?) accurate. In the 90's CPAN would have only had a few thousand distributions and looking at some stats from circa 2002

I doubt those figures are (meant to be?) accurate. In the 90's CPAN would have only had a few thousand distributions and looking at some stats from circa 2002 there were 5000 distributions from 20,000 uploads so the 50% abandoned figure does not sound correct. ref: http://stats.cpantesters.org/statscpan.html http://stats.cpantesters.org/statscpan.html