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package Acme::CPANModules::Import::CPANRatings::User::stevenharyanto;
use strict;
our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:PERLANCAR'; # AUTHORITY
our $DATE = '2023-10-29'; # DATE
our $DIST = 'Acme-CPANModules-Import-CPANRatings-User-stevenharyanto'; # DIST
our $VERSION = '0.002'; # VERSION
our $LIST = {description=>"This list is generated by scraping CPANRatings (cpanratings.perl.org) user page.",entries=>[{description=>"\n(REMOVED)\n",module=>"Log::Any",rating=>undef},{description=>"\nProvides a thin/lightweight OO interface for \$?, ...
1;
# ABSTRACT: List of modules mentioned by CPANRatings user stevenharyanto
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
Acme::CPANModules::Import::CPANRatings::User::stevenharyanto - List of modules mentioned by CPANRatings user stevenharyanto
=head1 VERSION
This document describes version 0.002 of Acme::CPANModules::Import::CPANRatings::User::stevenharyanto (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-Import-CPANRatings-User-stevenharyanto), released on 2023-10-29.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This list is generated by scraping CPANRatings (cpanratings.perl.org) user page.
This list is generated by scraping CPANRatings (cpanratings.perl.org) user page.
=head1 ACME::CPANMODULES ENTRIES
=over
=item L<Log::Any>
Author: L<PREACTION|https://metacpan.org/author/PREACTION>
(REMOVED)
=item L<Process::Status>
Author: L<RJBS|https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS>
Provides a thin/lightweight OO interface for $?, much like what Time::Piece does for localtime()/gmtime() or File::Stat for stat(). Of course, Real(TM) programmers shift and fiddle bits by themselves, but for the rest of us this module is a nice conv...
=item L<Archive::Any>
Author: L<OALDERS|https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS>
Nice idea, but the API needs to richer to be more useful (otherwise one will still need to go to individual Archive::Tar, Archive::Zip, etc). Currently the API provided are: listing files and extracting all files. We can't: create archive, add more f...
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Devel::Confess>
Author: L<HAARG|https://metacpan.org/author/HAARG>
Very nifty, it's like Carp::Always but with much more options/features (so you don't need a separate Carp::Always::Color, Carp::Always::Dump, and so on).
=item L<SQL::Statement>
Author: L<REHSACK|https://metacpan.org/author/REHSACK>
The concept is truly cool, unfortunately the parser is currently flaky/buggy: one SQL query might work but another valid and seemingly simple SQL would fail with weird error message. See distribution's RT queue.
<br>
Rating: 6/10
=item L<PerlMongers::Hannover>
Author: L<PTC|https://metacpan.org/author/PTC>
Instead of just printing some info, why not make it an Acme::PM or Acme::PerlMongers like Acme::CPANAuthors? Various stats can then be produced about the various Perl Mongers.
<br>
=item L<App::multiwhich>
Note that File::Which can also search for all matches too if you use it in a list context, e.g. @paths = which('foo'). File::Which also comes with a pwhich CLI utility which also accepts multiple arguments and has the -a switch to print all matches. ...
<br><br>In fact, the Unix 'which' command (or at least its Debian variant) also sports the -a switch.
=item L<Object::Anon>
Author: L<ROBN|https://metacpan.org/author/ROBN>
Nice idea. Some notes: 1) to be widely used, it really needs to be very efficient; 2) if the goal is simply to objectify a hash, perhaps Hash::Objectify or Object::From::Hash or Hash::To::Object (or Data::Objectify and so on) is a more descriptive na...
<br>
=item L<Data::Seek>
The "extremely fast and efficient" claim currently doesn't hold, as this module creates a I<whole> flattened tree for I<every> search operation.
<br><br>A simple benchmark:
<br><br>###
<br>
use Benchmark qw(timethese);
<br>
use Data::Seek;
<br>
use Data::DPath qw(dpath);
<br>
use JSON::Path;
<br><br>my $data = { map { $_ => {map {$I<< =>[1..4]} 1..20} } "a".."z" };
<br><br>timethese(-0.25, {
<br><br>dseek => sub { $ds = Data::Seek->new(data=>$data); $ds->search("j.1.\@")->data },
<br><br>dseek >>cacheobj=>sub{ state $ds=Data::Seek->new(data=>$data); $ds->search("j.1.\@")->data },
<br><br>dpath=>sub{ dpath("/j/1/I<< ")->match($data) },
<br><br>jpath=>sub{ JSON::Path->new(q[$.j.1.[ >>]])->values($data) },
<br>
});
<br>
=head2 #
<br><br>###
<br>
Benchmark: running dpath, dseek, dseek_cacheobj, jpath for at least 0.25 CPU seconds...
<br><br>dpath: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.27 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.27 CPU) @ 8292.59/s (n=2239)
<br><br>(warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
<br><br>dseek: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.29 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.29 CPU) @ 37.93/s (n=11)
<br><br>(warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
<br>
dseek_cacheobj: 0 wallclock secs ( 0.33 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.33 CPU) @ 42.42/s (n=14)
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Author: L<CINDY|https://metacpan.org/author/CINDY>
Hash::Identity has a use case of convenience when embedding expression in double-quote strings. I fail to see the point of Tie::Hash::Identity though. Can't you just say:
<br><br>'abc' eq 'abc'; # true
<br><br>(1+2+3) eq '6'; # true
<br>
=item L<Hash::Identity>
Author: L<CINDY|https://metacpan.org/author/CINDY>
At first I thought, hey, cute trick. But then Perl already has:
<br><br>print "You could use expr like this: ${(2**3)}.\n";
<br><br>print "Or you could use ident ${( 'a' . 'b' )} as well.\n";
<br><br>So you're trading a backslash and a couple of parentheses against having to depend on a non-core module and making your code reader raise her eyebrow when she first sees your code. Pick your poison :-)
<br><br>I wonder if this belongs in Acme::
<br><br>On the other hand and slightly off-topic, a module that can do Perl6-style interpolation (lexically) would be cool, I think:
<br><br>$s = "perl${(6-1)}-style interpolation";
<br>
{
<br><br>use v6str;
<br><br>$s = "perl{ 5+1 }-style interpolation";
<br>
}
<br>
=item L<Data::Structure::Util>
Author: L<ANDYA|https://metacpan.org/author/ANDYA>
@Tom Browder: If you just need unblessing, there's also another module Acme::Damn which is more minimalist. You can also create a shallow copy to unbless a reference, if you want to do it without the help of any module (Both Acme::Damn and Data::Stru...
<br><br>Re Data::Structure::Util: nifty module that provides speedy alternative for several things like checking for circular references, weaken them, unblessing a reference, etc. You can do many of the routines in pure Perl. This module lets you do ...
<br>
=item L<Fsdb>
Author: L<JOHNH|https://metacpan.org/author/JOHNH>
An interesting tool that has been developed since 1991 (which is roughly around the time the WWW and Linux was born, whew). Kudos to the author for the dedication and consistency.
<br><br>Since nowadays SQL is pretty much ubiquitous, users might also want to check out an alternative tool, App::fsql. For example (taking a similar example from the module's doc), to select entries in /etc/passwd where UID is between 1000 and 2000...
<br><br>$ ( echo -e "login\tpassword\tuid\tgid\tgecos\thome\tshell"; sed 's/:/\t/g' /etc/passwd ) | fsql --add-tsv - 'SELECT * FROM stdin WHERE uid >= 1000 AND uid <= 2000' --format text --aoh
=item L<Date::Tie>
Author: L<FGLOCK|https://metacpan.org/author/FGLOCK>
Cool, but personally I'd rather have something like JavaScript's properties (since Perl does have lvalue subroutine support):
<br><br>$date->year = 2014;
<br>
=item L<File::Slurp::Tiny>
Author: L<LEONT|https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT>
More effort needs to be made with regards to documentation, especially for File::Slurp users looking for alternatives. Why is this module needed? What are the differences with File::Slurp? How do the functions behave on I/O errors (since err_mode opt...
<br>
=item L<Clone::PP>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
Thanks for providing a pure-Perl alternative for deep cloning. Otherwise we are stuck with core module Storable's dclone, which cannot handle Regexp objects out of the box, must use deparse to handle coderefs, and not to mention is not as fast as it ...
<br><br>Of course, there are faster XS-based cloning modules on CPAN (all currently non-core, believe it or not there are no core modules for cloning except Storable). I'd recommend Data::Clone. But it's nice to have a pure-Perl implementation, e.g. ...
=item L<IPC::System::Simple>
Author: L<JKEENAN|https://metacpan.org/author/JKEENAN>
This is a well-designed module with a good interface. The core system()'s behavior of whether to invoke shell or not depending on the number of arguments is ... unfortunate. This module fixes that.
<br><br>However, the previous review's comparing of IPC::System::Simple with IPC::Run or IPC::Simple is rather misguided. They focus on different things: IPC::System::Simple focuses on providing shell/no-shell versions of invoking commands and making...
=item L<IPC::Cmd>
Author: L<BINGOS|https://metacpan.org/author/BINGOS>
IPC::Cmd does its job, but the interface is inconsistent, probably because a different author wrote run_forked() (and didn't follow the same convention). run() accepts a hash of arguments, but run_forked() accepts a scalar + hashref. run() returns a ...
=item L<Umask::Local>
Author: L<ROUZIER|https://metacpan.org/author/ROUZIER>
Please consider a simpler non-OO interface instead, a la File::chdir:
<br><br>use File::Umask; # or whatever, the "Local" thing is redundant
<br>
{
<br><br>local $UMASK = 0077;
<br><br>open(...);
<br><br>copy(...);
<br>
}
<br>
=head1 previous umask is restored
<br><br>which is arguably better (to me at least) than the current:
<br><br>use Umask::Local;
<br>
{
<br><br>my $umask_local = Umask::Local->new(0077);
<br><br>open(...);
<br><br>copy(...);
<br>
}
<br>
=head1 previous umask is restored
<br>
=item L<Proc::PidUtil>
Author: L<MIKER|https://metacpan.org/author/MIKER>
No file locking is currently done to the PID file to avoid race condition. Look at Proc::PID::File for a more proper implementation.
<br><br>
=item L<Data::Dumper::Sorted>
Author: L<MIKER|https://metacpan.org/author/MIKER>
Unnecessary. Data::Dumper does have the option to sort hash keys ($Sortkeys, look for 'sort' in 'perldoc Data::Dumper').
<br><br>This module also does not handle circular refs yet (and probably lacks other features of Data::Dumper too).
<br><br>Also the choice of returning error ("$Var00 = not a reference" when given Dumper(1) for example) as result is arguably unwise.
<br>
=item L<Archive::Probe>
Author: L<FGZ|https://metacpan.org/author/FGZ>
I would personally pick a non-OO, no-nonsense interface based on File::Find, like:
<br><br>use File::Find::Archive qw(find); # or find_archive
<br>
find(sub { ... }, "some.tar.gz");
<br><br>instead of the multiline, tedious setup just to search a file.
<br>
=item L<App::DBBrowser>
Author: L<KUERBIS|https://metacpan.org/author/KUERBIS>
A nice, minimalistic, terminal-based user interface for browsing your database and tables. Might be useful for simple cases.
<br><br>It would be I<much> more useful if usernames/passwords, queries, and other settings can be saved in a config/session file.
<br>
=item L<Locale::Maketext>
Author: L<TODDR|https://metacpan.org/author/TODDR>
Users might want to check out this article on why one should perhaps use Locale::TextDomain instead of Locale::Maketext: <a href="http://www.perladvent.org/2013/2013-12-09.html" rel="nofollow">www.perladvent.org/2013/2013-12-09.html</a>
=item L<Curses::Toolkit>
Nice effort, but one might also want to look at Tickit, which is not curses-based and looks more promising. Being based on Curses, this module still suffers from the many bugs and limitations of curses. The lack of Shift-Tab support, for one.
<br><br>See also: <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1059926" rel="nofollow">www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1059926</a>
<br><br>As I explore doing TUI more, I will update the reviews.
<br>
=item L<Moo::Lax>
Author: L<DAMS|https://metacpan.org/author/DAMS>
Great idea! I've been bitten and annoyed by strictures on more than one occasion. It has its uses, but users should have a choice on how to react to warnings.
<br>
=item L<App::YTDL>
This module is based on WWW::YouTube::Download but its documentation does not yet explain how it differs from WWW::YouTube::Download. From what I see at a glance, App::YTDL supports downloading a video from a playlist and setting download speed limit...
<br>
=item L<Data::CompactDump>
Author: L<MILSO|https://metacpan.org/author/MILSO>
At the current form, simply too simplistic to be an alternative to Data::Dump or Data::Dumper. No support for blessed refs, filehandle/globs, circular references, and so on. Changes numbers to stringy numbers or vice versa.
<br><br>Currently also contains some bugs like for -1 (changes it to string), "\" (produces invalid dump, does not handle backslash yet currently),
<br><br>And Data::Dump's dump of {} and [] are currently more compact ;-)
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Rating: 2/10
=item L<DateTime::Format::Flexible>
Author: L<THINC|https://metacpan.org/author/THINC>
While it doesn't cover as much phrases as DateTime::Format::Natural, at least it's simpler to translate (and the dist already includes a couple of translations). BTW, I think like in the POD of DateTime::Format::Natural, it needs to list which phrase...
<br><br>
Rating: 8/10
=item L<DateTime::Format::Natural>
Author: L<SCHUBIGER|https://metacpan.org/author/SCHUBIGER>
I'm giving DateTime::Format::Natural 3 stars because while it's great for English (it covers more phrases than DateTime::Format::Flexible), it's also hard to translate. Look at the source code for DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN: lots of Englishi...
<br>
Rating: 6/10
=item L<App::sourcepan>
Author: L<PEVANS|https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS>
Thanks, just what I needed. (I was hoping cpanm would accept my --download patch, but this is just as well).
<br><br>It still uses CPAN.pm and thus downloads the relatively big 01mailrc.txt.gz and 02packages.details.txt.gz file, thus slowing the first use. If you use cpanm exclusively, this is rather annoying especially if you're on a slow link.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Text::ASCIITable::TW>
The method of determining visual width of Chinese characters is rather hackish. Text::ASCIITable should perhaps use Text::CharWidth (which can be used to determine visual width of text in other languages e.g. Japanese, etc) thus rendering this module...
<br>
=item L<Text::VisualWidth>
Author: L<NANZOU|https://metacpan.org/author/NANZOU>
Also look at Text::CharWidth for an alternative that can be used with text in other languages (Chinese, etc).
<br>
=item L<Text::VisualWidth::PP>
Author: L<TOKUHIROM|https://metacpan.org/author/TOKUHIROM>
Also look at Text::CharWidth for an alternative that can be used with text in other languages (Chinese, etc).
<br>
=item L<Taint::Runtime>
Author: L<RHANDOM|https://metacpan.org/author/RHANDOM>
Nice idea. Perl should really have included something like this (analogous to warnings.pm for -w).
<br><br>However, for something as security-related as tainting, I personally think the interface is a bit too complex and not robust enough. There are too many pitfalls where one can fail to turn on tainting properly.
<br><br>* First, user must remember to import $TAINT, or doing '$TAINT = 1' has no effect. There's no error/warning for this mistake.
<br><br>* Then, if one also forgets to import taint_start or taint_start, then doing 'taint_start' or 'taint_env' (without parentheses) will do nothing. Also does not produce an error/warning except under strict mode.
<br><br>* One must remember to 'taint_env' I<after> 'taint_start'. There's no warning/error if one does the opposite.
<br><br>I'd rather have something like this:
<br><br>{
<br><br>use tainting;
<br><br>... code is running in taint mode ...
<br>
}
<br><br>use tainting;
<br>
{
<br><br>no tainting;
<br><br>... code is running without taint mode ...
<br>
}
<br><br>No functions, no variables to set, no exports. Tainting of %ENV etc should be done automatically just like -T.
<br><br>EDIT: I wrote tainting and uploaded it to CPAN as proof of concept.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<L>
Author: L<SONGMU|https://metacpan.org/author/SONGMU>
Reinvents Class::Autouse (written 12 years ago). But at least L is much simpler and shorter to type (the equivalent of -ML is -MClass::Autouse=:superloader).
<br><br>BTW, there's also Module::AutoLoad, Module::AutoINC, and lib::xi which can automatically install modules from CPAN and load them upon first use.
=item L<UNIVERSAL::moniker>
Author: L<KASEI|https://metacpan.org/author/KASEI>
Perl is not Ruby != everything Ruby does is horrible. This module has its uses.
=item L<Time::Out>
Author: L<PATL|https://metacpan.org/author/PATL>
A wrapper around Perl's alarm()/$SIG{ALRM}, so it has the same limitations, e.g. you cannot use this to properly timeout external programs started by system()/backtick. For the latter, you might want to try IPC::Cmd (run() or run_forked()), or some s...
<br><br>
=item L<Util::Timeout>
Author: L<NOTBENH|https://metacpan.org/author/NOTBENH>
A wrapper around Perl's alarm()/$SIG{ALRM}, so it has the same limitations, e.g. you cannot use this to properly timeout external programs started by system()/backtick. For the latter, you might want to try IPC::Cmd (run() or run_forked()), or some s...
<br><br>
=item L<System::Timeout>
Author: L<CHENGANG|https://metacpan.org/author/CHENGANG>
This is a thin wrapper over IPC::Cmd's run(). I'd personally use run() directly, it's not much harder or longer to type. Plus, IPC::Cmd is a core module.
<br><br>
=item L<Module::Quote>
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Rating: 8/10
=item L<Data::Compare>
Author: L<DCANTRELL|https://metacpan.org/author/DCANTRELL>
Pros: handle hashes as well as arrays, handle nested and cyclic structure, plugins.
<br><br>Cons: No cmp-like functionality (returning -1, 0, 1), slow (even slower than Array::Compare).
<br><br>See also: Array::Compare, JSON/YAML/Storable.
<br>
Rating: 6/10
=item L<Array::Compare>
Author: L<DAVECROSS|https://metacpan.org/author/DAVECROSS>
Pros: has a perm() function to check whether the two arrays contain the same things but in different order (although you can simply just run sort() over the arrays first). Allow skipping some elements from comparison.
<br><br>Cons: no cmp-like functionality (returning -1, 0, 1), slow (for equality test, you might as well compare the json_encode() result of the arrays, which is way faster), no nested comparison. No procedural interface.
<br><br>See also: Data::Compare, JSON/YAML/Storable.
Rating: 4/10
=item L<Mozilla::Mechanize>
Author: L<SLANNING|https://metacpan.org/author/SLANNING>
No longer builds (tested on a current Debian). A pity, since drop-in replacements for WWW::Mechanize (using different backend like curl, IE, Mozilla, Chrome, etc) might be handy.
<br><br>
=item L<LWP::Curl>
Author: L<LORN|https://metacpan.org/author/LORN>
Those looking for LWP drop-in replacement might want to take a look at the recently released LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl instead, which supports WWW::Mechanize.
<br><br>
=item L<LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl>
Author: L<SYP|https://metacpan.org/author/SYP>
Shows great promise. I personally need this for HTTPS proxy support. After testing, the module still doesn't work to login to my internet banking sites. But I'll still check in from time to time.
<br>
=item L<Devel::SizeMe>
Author: L<TIMB|https://metacpan.org/author/TIMB>
Wow, just wow. Hopefully now that we can use this tool to know how big things are, we are encouraged to create leaner, faster, more efficient Perl modules.
=item L<Oktest>
Author: L<KWATCH|https://metacpan.org/author/KWATCH>
A reinvention of Perl testing modules (it even comes with an equivalent for 'prove' command), with probably no added features and some added quirks. (Nested) topic can already be done using Test::More's subtests. Filtering and setup/teardown can be d...
<br>
Rating: 4/10
=item L<HTML::Escape>
Author: L<TOKUHIROM|https://metacpan.org/author/TOKUHIROM>
Still a bit slower than PHP's htmlspecialchars(), but in the same ballpark. An order of magnitude faster than HTML::Entities. Does not provide unescaping, but it's okay since escaping is the majority of use cases.
=item L<Clone::Fast>
Casual benchmarking on my PC shows that Data::Clone is up to twice faster than this.
Rating: 6/10
=item L<Perl::Strip>
Author: L<MLEHMANN|https://metacpan.org/author/MLEHMANN>
Balancing previous unhelpful review. Slowish (can't complain, PPI-based) but works and comes with a command-line utility.
<br><br>Beware though that the command-line utility modifies file in place without backup, without warning, and without option to create backup.
<br>
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Perl::Squish>
Author: L<ADAMK|https://metacpan.org/author/ADAMK>
Have failed to build for 1.5 years (reported bug RT#66958 left untouched, users need to install Module::Install first). No usage documentation.
<br><br>
Rating: 2/10
=item L<perlsecret>
Author: L<BOOK|https://metacpan.org/author/BOOK>
Nice collection of perl shortcuts. Today I forgot about the name for "x!!" and nicely found it in this module.
=item L<PerlX::ArraySkip>
Author: L<TOBYINK|https://metacpan.org/author/TOBYINK>
Cute idea as always, though I'd rather use comments rather than taking multiple sub calls hit.
=item L<App::perlfind>
Author: L<MARCEL|https://metacpan.org/author/MARCEL>
A timesaver. Using it on a daily basis (aliased to "pod"). Thanks, Marcel!
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As another reviewer has said, this module tends to conclude "application/octet-stream" for many kinds of files, making it not very useful.
<br><br>The currently recommended module in this area seems to be File::LibMagic. Other alternatives include File::MMagic (slow, has quite a few bugs, no longer maintained), File::MMagic::XS (also not actively maintained? long standing bug like failu...
<br>
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Time::Mock>
Author: L<EWILHELM|https://metacpan.org/author/EWILHELM>
Balancing previous 1 rating by @Ingo.
<br><br>To Ingo: You said module's documentation is okay, one feature you use works okay, and other features you don't use. Why only 1 star then?
<br><br>This module is a worthy alternative to Test::MockTime. It offers extra features such as working across forks, mocking Time::HiRes (eventually), and speeding/slowing down time.
=item L<Sakai::Stats>
Release early, release often indeed. First you release nothing but boilerplate :)
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Spreadsheet::Perl>
Author: L<NKH|https://metacpan.org/author/NKH>
Good documentation. All modules' documentation should similarly strive to contain at least: rationale for existence, pointer to alternatives, and task-oriented organization.
=item L<Unix::PasswdFileOps>
Author: L<BMAYNARD|https://metacpan.org/author/BMAYNARD>
Less-than-descriptive name (module's main function seems to be sorting entries, can't be guessed from the name). No unit tests. Doesn't handle /etc/shadow. Also, it might be useful to explain why one needs to sort entries in passwd file.
<br>
Rating: 4/10
=item L<Array::Diff>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
Yes, simple and gets the job done. Though I'm a bit curious with the implementation. If the interface is only to get number of deleted and added items (instead of positions of deletion/insertion), why depend on Algorithm::Diff (or use the name 'diff'...
<br>
=item L<DZ1>
Why do we need this uploaded to CPAN?
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Passwd::Unix>
Author: L<STRZELEC|https://metacpan.org/author/STRZELEC>
No tests. No detailed error status, only true/false (yes, there is a 'warnings' parameter on constructor, but this doesn't give out warnings on all operations, only some). No locking (although there is backup, but still).
<br><br>Also, some weird choices, why use bzip2 when creating backup? Or, why still require running as root (checking $() if we are allowing custom database file location?
<br><br>Between this and Unix::ConfigFile, I'm seriously considering using Unix commands instead (useradd, userdel, gpasswd, et al).
<br><br>UPDATE 2011-04-21: I created a fork of Passwd::Unix 0.52 called Passwd::Unix::Alt instead, which add some tests and modifications. Try it out if your needs are also not met by Passwd::Unix.
<br><br>UPDATE 2012-08-30: I created a new module called Unix::Passwd::File. Try it out if your needs are also not met by Passwd::Unix.
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Unix::ConfigFile>
Author: L<SSNODGRA|https://metacpan.org/author/SSNODGRA>
Outdated module that doesn't handle /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow.
Rating: 2/10
=item L<lib::xi>
Author: L<GFUJI|https://metacpan.org/author/GFUJI>
Handy module for installing dependencies. There are previous efforts, but the arrival of cpanm makes autoinstall process less tedious, so hats off also to the creator of cpanm.
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=item L<Capture::Tiny::Extended>
Author: L<MITHALDU|https://metacpan.org/author/MITHALDU>
Indispensable. Provides nice enhancement to Capture::Tiny (particularly the real-time teeing).
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=item L<google_talk_bot>
Improperly packaged, improper POD formatting, bot messages hardcoded in script, and yes... idiotic license. Basically a "trial" script to bait users into consultation gig. CPAN is not a place for this kind of thing. Please try again.
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Rating: 2/10
=item L<Clone::Any>
Author: L<EVO|https://metacpan.org/author/EVO>
Using Clone::Any nowadays is more trouble than it's worth.
<br><br>First, there are annoying incompatibilities between cloning modules. Most notably Storable, which is the default cloning module if Clone is not available, I<still> doesn't support storing Regexp objects out-of-the-box after all these years.
<br><br>Second, this module has not been updated for a long time and newer alternatives like the fast Data::Clone is not recognized.
<br><br>Right now I'm replacing all code from using Clone::Any code to Data::Clone.
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Rating: 4/10
=item L<Array::OrdHash>
Author: L<WOWASURIN|https://metacpan.org/author/WOWASURIN>
Fun module to play with, especially for those among us infected with a bit of PHP envy (me, never!).
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lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
With all due respect to the author, Switch is no longer necessary in 5.10+ as 5.10+ already introduced smart matching and given(). given() is superior because it doesn't introduce compile-time overhead, doesn't mess line numbers, and should be faster...
<br><br>You have been using 5.10+, right? (Since 5.8 is no longer officially supported)
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=item L<Moo>
Author: L<HAARG|https://metacpan.org/author/HAARG>
Last week I ported an application from Mouse (Any::Moose) to Moo. Went without a hitch (well I did replace "with 'X', 'Y', 'Z';" to "with 'X'; with 'Y'; with 'Z';" as instructed in the Moo documentation). Startup time decreased si...
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=item L<Sub::StopCalls>
Author: L<RUZ|https://metacpan.org/author/RUZ>
Cool idea, if a bit extreme.
<br><br>If computing a value is expensive, there's Memoize for the caller. On the callee side, you can cache the result (there's state variable in 5.10+ so it's dead simple to use).
<br><br>So I believe Sub::StopCalls is only necessary if you find the overhead of the sub call itself to be a bottleneck. And if that is the case, perhaps you should refactor the calling code anyway.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Log::Log4perl::Tiny>
Author: L<POLETTIX|https://metacpan.org/author/POLETTIX>
5 stars solely for the idea (I'm beginning to love the ::Tiny movement more and more these days). Haven't actually tried it though, but I bet many Log4perl users, me included, mostly only use easy_init. As much as Log4perl is mature and fairly optimi...
=item L<SHARYANTO::YAML::Any>
Re: Blue. I guess I shouldn't release this. I need something quick to fix our application, so this is not really something meant for public use. Will be purging this from PAUSE.
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=item L<SQL::Easy>
Author: L<BESSARABV|https://metacpan.org/author/BESSARABV>
IIRC, there has also previous similar attempt like this. Modules like these are not necessary, as DBI already has something equivalent (and even better): selectrow_{array,hashref,arrayref} and selectall_{array,hash}ref.
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Rating: 2/10
=item L<CGI::Struct>
Author: L<FULLERMD|https://metacpan.org/author/FULLERMD>
Cool, will definitely try this out the next time I write another form processing CGI script. Although the module is named CGI::, there's nothing CGI-specific about it, and that's good. So this module is basically a "path-expander" for hash ...
<br><br>Btw, one thing I use rather often in PHP is naming parameter as "foo[]" which will automatically add elements to the $_REQUEST['foo'] array. Perhaps this feature can be considered too.
=item L<DateTime::BusinessHours>
Author: L<BRICAS|https://metacpan.org/author/BRICAS>
Just tried it. It works, but the module/dist is not in the best shape:
<br><br>* Test fails (pod-coverage, error in POD)
<br><br>* dependency on Class::MethodMaker not yet specified
<br><br>* Documentation: Synopsis contains mistake (class name is DateTime::BusinessHours not BusinessHours), the name '$testing' is not very suitable, there are typos.
<br><br>* Style-wise, method naming is "joinedwords", while in DateTime families it's "separated_words" (not a big deal though).
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Rating: 6/10
=item L<Bundle::Dpchrist>
Every once in a while everyone of us encounters a programmer that disregards existing reusable code and creates his/her own "standard library" for everything, from trimming string to creating random number to cleaning the kitchen sink. We a...
<br><br>A commendable effort, David. But there really are a lot of wheels being reinvented here.
=item L<Net::BitTorrent::File>
Author: L<ORCLEV|https://metacpan.org/author/ORCLEV>
I mass download stuffs by putting a bunch of torrent files in a directory on the server and let rtorrent takes care of them. With this module I can quickly whip up a short script to calculate the total size of the downloadable files so I can be prett...
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=item L<Module::CoreList>
Author: L<BINGOS|https://metacpan.org/author/BINGOS>
Wow, I was thinking the same exact "godsend" too and turns out some other reviewer already said so. Very very helpful to assist deployment and pick modules to use. I personally made a couple of command-line scripts like pm-in-core or core-s...
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=item L<WWW::Mechanize>
Author: L<SIMBABQUE|https://metacpan.org/author/SIMBABQUE>
WWW::Mechanize is of course one of the indispensable tools for any web programmer or admin. The current problem is the proliferation of 3rd party subclasses, the functionalities of which cannot be used together. So you want a polite Mechanize which d...
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=item L<Mail::Sendmail>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
I used Mail::Sendmail and a few others "older" modules back from the days when it didn't support setting envelope sender different from RFC From, and when the test hung on some dead host.
<br><br>If it's still working for you, great. I personally have moved on to other modules like Email::Sender::Simple, which abstracts sending mechanism (transport) and support SMTP auth, for two. Also, many of the guide/documentation for Mail::Sendma...
Rating: 6/10
=item L<autodie>
Author: L<TODDR|https://metacpan.org/author/TODDR>
I started using autodie in almost all of my applications a few months ago. It's somewhat of a mixed blessing. For existing applications, it can break things and making things less robust, solely because old code are not built with autodie in mind.
<br><br>But the best thing about it is that it's lexically scoped, so for sections of code that you're not sure about, just sprinkle 'no autodie' to get the old behaviour.
<br><br>It should be used on probably 95% of code out there. For the rest of the cases, where you need to report the status of each I/O operation, it's obviously more convenient to check $? instead of trapping exception everytime.
<br><br>+1 for getting it into core.
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=item L<App::FileTools::BulkRename>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
Nice idea, straight and simple interface. A better name could perhaps be chosen? Documentation should be expanded, e.g. to warn users about security, since Data::Dumper a.k.a. eval() is used to load variable content. Also, the implementation does not...
=item L<PathTools>
I guess File::Spec's API is sane enough, but I suspect not a lot of people are using it because there's not enough incentive for it. When 99% population of the world use Unix/Linux/Windows (even Macs been technically Unix for a number of years), &quo...
<br><br>That's why I think Path::Class might have a better chance of succeeding. It gives niceties like a few more convenience methods, a shortcut of getting dir & file object from each other, etc. It gives users more incentive of using a proper ...
Rating: 8/10
=item L<File::Slurp>
Author: L<CAPOEIRAB|https://metacpan.org/author/CAPOEIRAB>
I've been using File::Slurp for years and is generally satisfied with it. However reading the negative reviews today and looking at its RT queue, I realize that this module is broken for many and is effectively abandoned by the maintainer (no new rel...
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Log::Log4perl>
Author: L<ETJ|https://metacpan.org/author/ETJ>
It's a very mature and an excellent logging framework. However, some of the common minor complaints are: 1) It's too complex. I agree: it should not be this hard to get started. 2) Configuration is too verbose. Agreed: but well, what can you do, most...
<br><br>One of the main strengths of Log4perl is its sublogger/subcategory feature, which few other frameworks seem to have.
<br><br>For other alternatives, also take a look at: Log::Handler, Log::Any. And of course Log::Message too.
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=item L<Log::Handler>
Author: L<BLOONIX|https://metacpan.org/author/BLOONIX>
This review mostly compares Log::Handler with Log4perl, which is a mature and one of the most popular logging frameworks.
<br><br>I think Log::Handler's interface is much simpler, nicer, more Perlish than Log4perl. It's a bit similar to Log::Any::App, which I created just because I hate Log4perl configuration.
<br><br>There is a unique concept of maxlevel not normally found in other frameworks, though it can be emulated in other frameworks using filters.
<br><br>At a quick glance, the speed is around twice that of Log::Log4perl, so I'll say it's on the low-end side (there are other much faster logging modules, but anyway speed is not an issue to most people).
<br><br>It currently lacks sublogger (hierarchical categorization and adjustable/automatic appending of subcategory to its parent), so it cannot be used to replace Log4perl in most cases as that's one of the main feature of Log4perl. Which is a pity ...
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Log::Fast>
Author: L<POWERMAN|https://metacpan.org/author/POWERMAN>
This logging framework is also minimalistic: no categories/hierarchiecal loggers, no custom levels, no config file, or other whistles and bells. And the interface & default levels are rather syslog-oriented. But it's fast alright. The POD doesn't...
<br><br>So this module will certainly come handy if you have a performance critical application.
<br><br>Btw, note that the benchmarks are done for actual logging to output. For log statements that do not actually get logged (e.g. because the level is below the desired output level), I don't find that extreme differences in overhead between log...
=item L<Log::Minimal>
Author: L<KAZEBURO|https://metacpan.org/author/KAZEBURO>
Log::Minimal's slogan is "minimal but customizable". It's minimal alright, probably only suitable for simple scripts as the moment you organize your application/library into separate modules, you'll want/need categories instead of just leve...
<br><br>Also, only formats is customizable, there is currently no way to customize level. And the levels are "not standard" (not that there is an official authoritative standard, but the popular convention is TRACE/DEBUG/INFO/WARN/ERROR/FAT...
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DEBUG/INFO/WARN/CRITICAL and NONE). Surely most people would expect another level between WARN and CRITICAL, for non-critical errors? But that is actually just a matter of taste.
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Rating: 4/10
=item L<Log::Fine>
Author: L<CFUHRMAN|https://metacpan.org/author/CFUHRMAN>
Log::Fine is touted as a framework for those who "need a fine-grained logging mechanism in their program(s)". But apart from the emphasis on custom levels, to me there is nothing extra fine-grained about it. The other thing it provides is c...
<br><br>Btw regarding custom levels, this practice is long deprecated by log4j (and thus also by Log4perl, although Log4perl can do custom levels). I can understand this decision as I sometimes already have trouble managing the popular convention of ...
Rating: 6/10
=item L<Config::IniFiles>
Author: L<SHLOMIF|https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF>
This module has been developed for more than a decade and seen different maintainers over the years. The codebase is indeed showing these, with different capitalization and indentation styles, among other things.
<br><br>However, among more than a dozen or so of INI modules in CPAN, ironically there seems to be few other choices if you go beyond the most basic feature set. Some INI modules can only simplistically rewrite/dump the whole INI structure and thus ...
<br><br>Config::IniFiles by far offers the most options and features, like dealing with line continuation, case sensitivity, default section, multiline/array, deltas, etc. So for now, despite all of its quirks, this module is still hard to beat.
<br><br>There's another nice little INI module that can do read/set/delete/unset (instead of just read/dump): Prima::IniFile, but it is included in a totally unrelated distribution.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<DateTime>
Author: L<DROLSKY|https://metacpan.org/author/DROLSKY>
Amidst all the glowing reviews may I add a reminder that, as with everything, there's a catch: runtime performance. On my PC, the speed of creating a DateTime object is just around 6000/sec. If you use DateTime intensively, it can quickly add up.
<br><br>Imagine serving a web page that fetches 50 rows from database, where for convenience you convert each date column to a DateTime object, and you have 120 requests/sec coming in... That's already 6000 objects (an extra second!).
<br><br>Which is unfortunate because DateTime is so wonderful, convenient, correct, complete and all that. So one approach you can use might be to delay converting to DateTime object until necessary.
=item L<Date::Manip>
Author: L<SBECK|https://metacpan.org/author/SBECK>
Wow, there are surely a lot of negative reviews ...
<br><br>First of all, Date::Manip has a long history. I used this module back in 2001-2002, IIRC. Back then it was I<the> swiss army of date/time manipulation, something you use when you want the most flexible/complete thing in Perl. True, it's slow,...
<br><br>But then things change. DateTime project was started, and now it is somewhat the de facto standard. It's more modern and far more modular than the monolithic Date::Manip (every timezone and language support and parsing/formatting modules ship...
<br><br>And then there's the 5.x -> 6.x debacle. As someone who also sprinkle Perl 5.10 requirements to his CPAN modules, I can feel for the author. But the difference is, most of my modules are not that widely used/known, and also many start its ...
<br><br>All in all, you are free to use or not use Date::Manip. There are other alternatives. Pick wisely.
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Rating: 6/10
=item L<App::pmuninstall>
Author: L<XAICRON|https://metacpan.org/author/XAICRON>
One would wonder why CPAN clients still don't have this crucial feature Though you see Miyagawa listed in the Credits so maybe cpanminus or its sister will end up having this functionality? One can only hope. At 0.06, some things are not working flaw...
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=item L<App::lntree>
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