[Boston.pm] directed Graph modules in perl and CPAN

2013-06-25 Thread Steve Tolkin
Summary: I went looking for a CPAN graph module so I could merge multiple directed graphs. I found two that looked good, by famous Perl authors. Unfortunately both have issues. 1. Graph::Easy looks good, but it has not changed in years and has a bug list

Re: [Boston.pm] directed Graph modules in perl and CPAN

2013-06-25 Thread Ben Tilly
For a specific one-off specific task like this, I would assume that would take more work to find and evaluate a module that solves my problem than it would take to roll my own solution. Heck, in this case you can arrange it as a map-reduce. Your initial map takes each file, and spits out