Hi, All
Probably many of you don't know but there are many Apache::* modules out
there, that can save you a lot of development and debugging time. The
problem is that many modules were never discussed and therefore used.
I suggest to open a series of posts whose goal to make the introduction of
new and old modules, which by some reason didn't catch in. The modules
that fall into this category are Apache::Registry{BB|NG},
Apache::SubProcess, Apache::VMonitor, Apache::Scoreboard and many more
modules at http://perl.apache.org/src/apache-modlist.html . I have counted
164 modules in this list!
I suggest to use [RareModules] tag in the subject. So it'll be easy to
utilize the mail archives in the future.
I urge the authors of these rare modules and their users to present a
module per post, with a short description of the module and examples of
usage. The idea is to rise the interest. Once a user wants to learn more
about the module she can read the module's manpage.
What do you think?
P.S. On the same note I want to urge people to release their modules on
CPAN. While it's *preferable* to prepare a Makefile.PL, you can get away
without it. But it's an easy task, since you can "steal" it from many
packages available out there...
I'm sure that there are many modules kept in your stashes and aren't
getting shared with the rest of the mod_perl community. You might think
that the module isn't of a general interest, but you might be very wrong
about it, since someone else probably reinvents the wheel at this very
moment.
Free the hands of others! Let them create new things, it's a win-win
scenario!
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