> I've been wondering about this for a while. There
> are lots and lots of modules available in many
> different categories. How do you go about finding
> just the right module for what you need - other than
> just asking the list? Looking for pointers on how to
> sift through all the wonderful gems in CPAN to find
> the one wonderful gem I'll need a week or a year
> from now.
It's pretty pricy ($495/year--so you might want to charge it to the
company budget), but we provide a weekly email newsletter called PerlAlert
that contains fairly detailed descriptions of any new or updated CPAN
modules from the past 7 days. It also is a compilation of the best of
comp.lang.perl.misc, the p5p mailing list, Perl-Win32-Users and other
sources of Perl news and discussion. You can get 3 sample issues here:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlAlert/index.html
There were roughly 50 new or updated CPAN extensions discussed in last
week's issue. Here is an example of what the entries look like:
DBD-XBase-0.161
A database driver module for Tim Bunce's DataBase Interface (DBI)
extension. This driver allows you to query any database that uses
the old dBase IV file format (this includes FoxPro), which is still
in heavy use for relatively flat databases where speed of access
is a priority over resource protection. This release fixes a bug in
the option handling code of indexdump, makes a number of important
changes and fixes to Xbase::Index, and fixes a truncation error
handling of long integer values. This is an important upgrade to
a module that changes very gradually, so we recommend it to anyone
that uses this in production.
Sorry for the blatant ActiveState product promotion, but then again, PPM
isn't paying the bills and the "PPM gods" have families to feed. :-) :-)
Murray
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