Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / May 2004

could someone, please, tell me how some modules get meta data like "module
is a devloper release" and the DLSIP definitions so I can get some of my
modules listed on search.cpan.org. All this information must be right in
front of me but it seems I have a temporary doc blindness.

I'm looking for program to generate documentation for perl modules like
"doxygen" for C.
does something like this exist? I need to make docomentation for one perl
library.

When I try the "make test" portion of the GD.pm install, I get the
following.  I've verified all my libraries are there.  Any ideas?
Thanks!
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I'm starting a project where a C++ library would have to
instatiate a pesistent Perl interpreter.
I found an error that's easily reproductible by trying the
example "Persistent Interpreter" from perldoc perlembed, but

I think I beefed up MP3::Tag to the state that it contains about 95%
of capabilities I would wish...  There are several more (more or less
trivial) features to add (like freedb connection instead of reading
the file from disk, or fetching the info from playlists), but the gist

I have released 3 modules to CPAN earlier, when I thought it is fun to
have some modules up there. Actually they don't do much there so I'd
like to get rid of them.
Two of them have never really worked so I can safely assume no one uses

I'm reading the modules documentation here:
    http://perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perlmod.html#Perl-Modules
Right below the example module code there, it says this:
    use Cwd;        # import names from Cwd::

I've put together something that I don't know what to call.  My working
name is "instance::vars", in lowercase because it's similar to the "use
vars" pragma.  However, instead of defining package variables, it works
on lexicals within a class.  It works with "use fields" to allow ...

I am trying to install the NET::POP3 module to an ActiveState Perl 5.6
installation (using PPM) and am getting an error.   The error states I
need to install the MIMEBASE64 module.  However, I am still getting
the error after installing that package.

I am trying to use sockets to have a server that takes a message then
returns down the socket that it was ok and give back an id.
I can get the server ok but i can't understand how to get the client to read
in from the socket after send its message.

             I was looking into CPAN for a module that will help me
create tables inside PDF document. I also need to create the PDF
document in A4-landscape size. I need to embed small .jpg logo also in
the PDF document.

Can you use the XML::RSS module with ActiveState perl?  
It doesn't seem to be in the ActiveState's package repository.
Downloading XML::RSS from cpan.org and looking at the install it says
to use "make"  which doesn't seem to come with ActiveState. (is this

I need to determine if a certain command is available in my Makefile.PL
script.  Is there a module or command that provides something similar to the
unix which utility?

I have a problem. I'm trying to write a perl script that would extract the
data from html table (the html table is a part of email) . So, I found a
perl module in cpan.org site ( html::tableextractor) can be help me, but the
module description is not very exhaustive. Where Can I ...

I just installed PAR 0.81 on my ActivePerl 5.6.1 for Win32 (build 629).  
When I use pp to create an executable, everything works fine if I don't
have perl5opt set to include any modules (I normally have it set to -MWild
in order to include automatic wildcard expansion; Wild.pm is ...