>deal with for Perl. In our meetings, we focus on the big, powerful
>applications of Perl. We tend to ignore the little, useful scripts.
I use Perl for both major applications and minor scripts. Although I tend to
use the good old command line (e.g. find, sed and grep) for most of what I
would consider minor.
But, I think the real power of Perl comes from packages and CPAN. However,
with the right packages major scripts turn into minor ones.
We have a bunch of in-house packages some of which have been open sourced at
http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/.
But, what I think would be the killer app of "Introductory Perl Help" would be
1) What are the best CPAN packages to start my foundation upon?
2) How can I start my foundation with my own packages? (e.g. the database
connect package)
3) How can I convert my Perl packages into OS packages so that they are always
available (RPM, PPM, etc.)?
4) What are the lessons learned from others so that I hopefully won't be in the
same boat.
I think the CPAN indexer should have a place where I can list my favorite CPAN
packages. I'd start with Path::Class and DateTime.
I hope to make the meeting in December.
Thanks,
Mike
mrdvt92
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