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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)
<br><br>(warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
<br><br>jpath: 0 wallclock secs ( 0.27 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.27 CPU) @ 11711.11/s (n=3162)
<br><br>(warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
<br>
=head2 #
<br><br>Also: 1) the syntax is rather inconsistent: ':n' for array index access, but '.@' (instead of ':@') for grabbing all elements. 2) currently cannot select subtree (must always select leaf node).
<br><br>As alternatives, I recommend the much simpler JSON::Path, or the more powerful Data::DPath.
<br>
=item L<Games::2048>
Author: L<BLAIZER|https://metacpan.org/author/BLAIZER>
My favorite 2048 implementation (it's text-mode, written in Perl, uses my module Color::ANSI::Util, and what else... oh yeah, it's the only implementation where I've reached 2048 :-) ).
<br><br>One tip: enlarge the fonts of your terminal emulator (e.g. Ctrl-+ on Konsole) until it's big and convenient enough.
=item L<App::D>
Author: L<BESSARABV|https://metacpan.org/author/BESSARABV>
As an alternative, one can also do:
<br><br>alias d='
<br><br>TZ=UTC date; # show date in UTC
<br><br>date ; # show date in local timezone
<br><br>cal -3 ; # show monthly calendar for curmon-1, curmon, curmon+1
<br>
'
<br><br>
=item L<Getopt::Long>
Author: L<JV|https://metacpan.org/author/JV>
Having worked for quite some time with option processing and several other similar modules, I have to say that most of the time you probably want to use Getopt::Long instead of the other alternatives. Or at least pick the alternatives which are based...
<br><br>Most other modules that reinvent option parsing either don't bother to do short option bundling (-abc instead of -a -b -c), or abbreviation (--long-o instead --long-option-name), or the choice to (dis)allow mix-mashing options and arguments, ...
<br>
=item L<Text::Table::Tiny>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
Very fast, several times faster than Text::TabularDisplay or Text::Table (and many times faster than the other slower table-generator modules). It uses sprintf() to format a whole row instead of formatting each cell separately using sprintf() and joi...
<br><br>I did a comparison in: <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2014/07/benchmarking-several-ascii-table-generator-modules.html" rel="nofollow">blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/...</a>
=item L<Mo>
Author: L<TINITA|https://metacpan.org/author/TINITA>
A great alternative when Moo is a bit too much for you. Useful for scripts that must start really fast. Mind you, Moo loads about 5K lines of code and more than a dozen files, all of which takes +- 10ms on my computer. Mo on the other hand is only a ...
<br><br>I use this for a very lightweight parent class. A richer subclass then uses Moo.
<br><br>Isn't it great that we have the choices and upgrade path from the very minimal Mo, to Moo for normal cases, to Moos and Moose for even richer (but heavier) alternatives. Truly TIMTOWTDI!
<br>
=item L<App::ChangeShebang>
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Rating: 2/10
=item L<Task::Mechanistic>
If you peek into its Makefile.PL, you'll see a seemingly random/heterogenous collection of modules to install (instead of just WWW::Mechanize). This is probably a Task::BeLike::$AUTHOR in disguise.
<br><br>
=item L<Sereal>
Author: L<YVES|https://metacpan.org/author/YVES>
So far the best of the bunch.
<br><br>FAST: much faster than Storable, roughly the same speed as (sometimes slightly faster than) Data::Clone for cloning.
<br><br>FEATUREFUL: Can handle circular references, Regexp objects (trips out-of-the-box Storable), JSON::{PP,XS}::Boolean objects (trips Data::Clone).
<br><br>COMPACT: definitely more compact (up to several times) than Storable.
<br><br>I'm sold. What more do you want? Le Storable est mort, vive le Sereal!
=item L<Test::Tester>
Author: L<EXODIST|https://metacpan.org/author/EXODIST>
If you write test functions, you need this. It's like the "Test::More" for "Test::More". However, it currently does not work out of the box with subtests (submitted as wishlist to RT).
<br><br>PS: Thanks to Toby Inkster for pointing this module out.
<br><br>
=item L<Text::CharWidth>
Author: L<KUBOTA|https://metacpan.org/author/KUBOTA>
It's faster than Unicode::GCString->new($str)->columns, but it gives wrong answers to lots of characters, e.g. control characters like "\n", "\t", etc are currently assumed to have width of -1 character. You're better off wi...
Rating: 2/10
=item L<App::Options>
Author: L<SPADKINS|https://metacpan.org/author/SPADKINS>
2010-10-13:
<br><br>I admit, this is not the most flexible configuration framework out there as it enforces some convention. And I don't/can't use it on every project. But it's certainly one of the easiest. You can slap a few lines of options declaration in your...
<br><br>There are still a few annoyances (I submitted them in the RT), but in general, this is a very handy module to use for lazy coders who just want to accept configuration/options from outside the code.
<br><br><shameless plug>I'm trying to do somewhat the same with Config::Tree, but as of now the module is not really done yet.</shameless plug>
<br><br>UPDATE 2013-08-15:
<br><br>I'm reducing the ratings from 5 to 2. I've now avoided using this module due to two lingering issue since 2010: 1) App::Options does not accept '--opt val', only '--opt=val' which is incompatible with how most command-line programs work, caus...
<br><br>I'm now using Perinci::CmdLine as replacement, but I cannot recommend it in general, as the two modules are not equivalent.
Rating: 4/10
=item L<Filesys::Notify::Simple>
Author: L<MIYAGAWA|https://metacpan.org/author/MIYAGAWA>
It's rather unfortunate that currently the choice for general purpose cross-platform filesystem notification modules on CPAN falls between this module (FNS) or File::ChangeNotify (F::CN). The other CPAN modules are either OS-/framework-specific.
<br><br>FNS has a simple API but is perhaps too simple for some uses, while F::CN uses Moose and has a big startup overhead.
<br><br>If you simply want to check from time to time whether a change has occured, you need to wrap the wait() method with alarm(). And I found on my Linux PC that I need a timeout of at least 3 seconds for this to work reliably.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<experimental>
Author: L<LEONT|https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT>
Vote +1 to add this to core. Please make coding in Perl 5 relatively painless.
=item L<MIME::Lite::HTML>
Author: L<ALIAN|https://metacpan.org/author/ALIAN>
Very straightforward to use (I needed to send a URL/webpage as HTML email with embedded images/objects). With this module I can finish my job with only a few lines of Perl in 3-5 minutes (searching for this module in CPAN takes more than that! search...
<br><br>Blackberry is having trouble displaying the resulting email though. No problem with Gmail or Thunderbird/Icedove.
=item L<Term::Size>
Author: L<FERREIRA|https://metacpan.org/author/FERREIRA>
5-year old bug like RT#38594 still present. Use one of the alternate implementations like Term::Size::{Unix,Win32,ReadKey}.
<br>
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>
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=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!
=item L<PerlX::Maybe>
Author: L<TOBYINK|https://metacpan.org/author/TOBYINK>
A nice syntax addition for avoiding passing or writing a bunch of undefs. More convenient to write than using ternary operator or grep. I'm beginning to adore syntax modules like this (as long as it adds negligible overhead).
<br><br>
=item L<File::Path::Tiny>
Author: L<DMUEY|https://metacpan.org/author/DMUEY>
I like the concept, but do not like the overly short names mk() and rm(). Instead of mk(), how about mkdir_p() or mkpath() like in File::Path. Instead of rm(), how about rm_r() or rmtree() like in File::Path.
<br>
Rating: 6/10
=item L<Exporter::Lite>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
2011-10-04: I am now using Exporter::Lite exclusively instead of Exporter. Got bit once by Exporter when using for an OO module due to clash of assigning to @ISA vs 'use base'. +1 for putting it into core.
<br><br>EDIT 2012-08-08: Nowadays I revert back to Exporter most of the time because Exporter is core. To avoid @ISA issue, one simply needs to import import() instead setting @ISA:
<br><br>use Exporter qw(import);
<br>
=item L<YAML::Syck>
Author: L<TODDR|https://metacpan.org/author/TODDR>
To be fair, in my experience YAML::Syck is not "much more buggy" than ::XS. It even sometimes works with my YAML data while ::XS crashes. Go figure.
=item L<Devel::FindPerl>
Author: L<LEONT|https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT>
IMO the module should explain in the POD, in what cases using $^X is not enough or how it is different from Probe::Perl.
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=item L<Any::Mo>
Why exclude Moo?
<br><br>Also the issue with any Any::* (or Any::*) modules is that there should be a mechanism (preferably a common one) to adjust the ordering. Sometimes I prefer Moose first, for full capability or compatibility or whatever. Sometimes I prefer Mous...
<br>
=item L<PerlX::Perform>
Author: L<TOBYINK|https://metacpan.org/author/TOBYINK>
I personally don't see much value of this syntactic sugar since Perl already allows us to express clearly. Pick one:
<br><br>for ($foo) { say $_ if defined }
<br><br>for (grep {defined} $foo) { say $_ }
<br><br>do { say $_ if defined } for $foo
<br><br>say $_ for grep {defined} $foo
<br><br>And save yourself from having to remember whether we should add a comma or not before "wherever".
<br>
=item L<TOBYINK::PerlX::A>
I have nothing against bundles like this, but beware that adding 'use TOBYINK::PerlX::A' will cause Perl to load 460 files and compile +- 160k lines (takes 1s on my Core i5 machine and 8s on my Atom netbook).
=item L<WWW::Google::Images>
Just adding a note that this module is unmaintained (as expressed by the author) and has stopped working for some time. If you are looking for alternatives, try REST::Google (which includes REST::Google::Search::Images). The latter has been working O...
=item L<Acme::Damn>
Author: L<IBB|https://metacpan.org/author/IBB>
5 stars for cute metaphor (there's also Acme::Holy by the same author, but that is just another implementation of Scalar::Util's blessed()) and for prompt support from the author.
<br><br>I'm sure there exists a real use case to move this out of Acme::, however obscure that might be. Can't come up with any right now, all I can think of is reblessing, which can be handled with bless() from the start.
<br><br>UPDATE 2013-09-11: I found a real use-case for it! Cleaning up data to be sent to JSON. BTW, Data::Structure::Util also has an unbless() function, but Acme::Damn is smaller and faster. Data::Structure::Util also currently doesn't build on Win...
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=item L<WWW::Parallels::Agent>
@Justin Case: The name is unfortunate, but it's already proper (WWW:: followed by website or company name). HTTP client libraries are in LWP::. But VM:: is also an apt choice.
<br>
=item L<Underscore>
I don't know why Sawyer X's review is marked as unhelpful (2 out of 8), but I agree with him. This is I<not> an Acme module, it's a port of a JavaScript library of the same name.
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=item L<Locale::Geocode>
Author: L<DIZ|https://metacpan.org/author/DIZ>
Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that YEARS-old bugs are not being fixed.
<br><br>At the time of this writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) + the newsletters (minor updates) up to 2006. When it should be updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the newsletters. For example, this module do...
<br><br>Sadly we live in a world where countries and subcountries change all the time.
Rating: 2/10
=item L<Locale::SubCountry>
Author: L<KIMRYAN|https://metacpan.org/author/KIMRYAN>
UPDATE 2012-08-30: I am not sure if the module is now fully compliant to the new ISO 2007, but bug reports are certainly being responded and resolved now. Updating rating from 1-star to 4-star. Thanks, Kim.
<br><br>2012-02-17: Review to version 1.47:
<br><br>Sorry to have to rate with 1 star. I don't have problem with the interface/documentation. The 1-star rating is just to warn people that the data used by this module is not up to date. And that months-old bugs are not being fixed.
<br><br>At the time of this writing, this module still uses ISO 3166-2:1998 (first edition) when it should be updated to ISO 3166-2:2007 (second edition) + all the newsletters (minor updates). For example, this module does not report 3 newer province...
<br><br>Sadly we live in a world where countries and subcountries change all the time.
<br><br>EDIT: Ok, so I was not being clear that I was not talking about my own bug report (posted at about the same time of this review). And bugs were certainly being resolved up to about 7 months ago.
<br>
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Data::Rmap>
Author: L<BOWMANBS|https://metacpan.org/author/BOWMANBS>
A very handy utility, sort of like s/// on your nested data structure instead of just strings. One nitpick: no coderef support. I needed to replace all coderefs inside a data structure into a string, since I want to pass it to JSON encoder. None of t...
<br><br>UPDATE 2011-12-30: The author (Brad) quickly responded to my RT ticket and added rmap_code. Upgrading from 4- to 5-star :) Regexp support is not there yet though, and I have suggested the ability to get all kinds of Perl-specific and weird ob...
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=item L<Data::Properties::JSON>
Author: L<JOHND|https://metacpan.org/author/JOHND>
The abstract for this module is a bit strange. What does this have to do with 'test fixtures'? Also the documentation doesn't say much, e.g. What will happen if a hash key contains funny characters (or arrays, etc)?
<br><br>A similar module in spirit is Data::Hive. I think "providing convenient chained method access to hierarchical data" should be refactored out. So perhaps Data::Properties::{JSON,YAML,...} should just be a convenient shortcut for {JSO...
=item L<Exporter::Auto>
Author: L<NEILB|https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB>
I discourage module authors from exporting like this because it's simply too impolite/intrusive for module users. If the module author is lazy, there is already Exporter::NoWork which offers a few options for module users. This module, on the other h...
<br><br>Let me remind all again by quoting from Exporter's POD: "Do I<not> export anything else by default without a good reason! Exports pollute the namespace of the module user."
=item L<Net::Douban>
Interface to web services should be put under WWW::I<, not Net::>
=item L<HTML::Form::XSS>
Author: L<DUMB|https://metacpan.org/author/DUMB>
Should probably be put under Test::*?
=item L<Thread::IID>
Author: L<WROG|https://metacpan.org/author/WROG>
When I saw the perlmonks thread yesterday, I thought "well, someone should package it and put it on CPAN". And then someone did :) Thanks.
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=item L<Test::Lite>
Author: L<BRADH|https://metacpan.org/author/BRADH>
This is just a reimplementation of Test::More. But I thank the author for writing a short description of why this module is written, how it is different from others, and suggestion of what modules users should use. There are a lot of wheels being rei...
=item L<Sub::Mage>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
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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=item L<Bash::Completion>
Author: L<MELO|https://metacpan.org/author/MELO>
Clean code, plugin interface simple to use, but implementation needs to be improved. For example, parsing $ENV{COMP_LINE} & $ENV{COMP_POINT} into @argv is done simplistically using split(/\h+/), without regard to shell's quotes/escapes. (Getopt::...
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Rating: 6/10
=item L<Bash::Completion::Plugins::cpanm>
Author: L<PERLER|https://metacpan.org/author/PERLER>
Cool, except that with cpanm I often install local distribution (cpanm Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz). Perhaps the completion can look in the filesystem first before firing API request. Also, might be nice if there is some caching because it seems to be slow (...
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Rating: 8/10
=item L<Switch>
Author: L<CHORNY|https://metacpan.org/author/CHORNY>
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>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/Import/CPANRatings/User/stevenharyanto.pm view on Meta::CPAN
=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>
Disclaimer: I maintain a "competitor" module, App::perlmv. Apparently a lot of people, like me, likes to rename files using Perl. And the examples in the documentation are about renaming movie files too, something which I do a lot :)
<br><br>I applaud Stirling Westrup for taking a legacy script and improving it. May we have a lot of ideas to borrow from each other.
<br><br>This is an early release, there are quite a few things I find lacking. Most importantly, I suggest adding a test suite as soon as possible. The filesystem differences can be tricky, and CPAN Testers can help providing feedback.
<br><br>Keep up the good work.
Rating: 8/10
=item L<Script::State>
Author: L<MOTEMEN|https://metacpan.org/author/MOTEMEN>
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>
Author: L<ROKR|https://metacpan.org/author/ROKR>
I guess this app is still useful, since "cp -sR" still doesn't work as many would expect, and there are Windows users out there (yes, newer NTFS does support symlinks; though I don't know whether this module supports creating symlinks on NT...
<br><br>A minor comment would be on the name, maybe lnstree can be considered instead (since "ln" indicates hardlink, at least for me). Btw, there's also a free software called "lns" to do the exact same thing.
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=item L<Data::Clone>
Author: L<GFUJI|https://metacpan.org/author/GFUJI>
I've never encountered difficulty in cloning data structures in Perl, usually I just use Clone or sometimes Storable's freeze + thaw (the later does not yet support cloning Regexp objects out of the box).
<br><br>However, I like Data::Clone for its speed! It's several times faster than Clone or freeze+thaw. So hats up. Planning to use Data::Clone in future projects.
<br><br>Now if we can convince Goro to write a fast serializer/deserializer with compact output (essentially, a faster version of Storable), that would be even nicer :-)
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=item L<Data::Pond>
Author: L<ZEFRAM|https://metacpan.org/author/ZEFRAM>
With due respect to the author, I fail to see the practical point of Pond. Pond (Perl-based open notation for data) is the Perl counterpart of JSON, except that implementation is currently only available in Perl (CMIIW), and "Pond represents few...
<br><br>Pond is pitched against Data::Dumper + eval, which is dangerous, but Data::Dumper + eval is by far not the only method available for serialization. Perl can do Storable, JSON, YAML, even PHP serialization format.
<br><br>The documentation does not show what Pond looks like.
<br><br>One cute thing about Pond is that you can check Pond syntax using a single regex. But apart from that, there's nothing compelling in using Pond to serialize data.
Rating: 4/10
=item L<File::Which>
Author: L<PLICEASE|https://metacpan.org/author/PLICEASE>
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