Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / February 2005

Gentlepeople,
i'm using net::telnet to connect to a remote script (rather than a
login).  the script internally uses "^]" to step back through itself,
conflicting with the default escape telnet character.  this wouldn't be

I just finished coding, testing, and documenting a module that I've
written for CPAN.  I wanted to get some feedback here on it before I
upload it.
This is my first CPAN module ever, so please feel free to tear it

I'm using the Time::HiRes module on a dual opteron running:
kernel 2.6.8.1-4-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 11:33:56 UTC 2005 x86_64
GNU/Linux (ubuntu in 64bit mode).
I've been using it as the basis for some timing tests that were written on

     I'm trying to install the Time-HiRes module on winXP, perl 5.6.1
(activestate).  Using ppm3.  Whether I try to install via the module
name or number (5186) I get the following error:
    error: no suitable installation target found for package Time-HiRes.

Can someone please suggest me a Perl module for comparing huge XML
Files.
I tried XML::SemanticDiff, but it is taking a lots and lots of time to
load the XML File nodes, elements and attributes to the Hash.

Greetings.  Our front-line web server mostly does Apache Rewrites,
but we also have a little cgi script running there which does some
authentication and then uses LWP::UserAgent to
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;

Here are what I have been trying to install DBI module on my Solaris 8
box:
1) I'd tried using different perl version.  i.e. 5.8.0, 5.8.3. (they
are all precompiled pkg from sunfreeware.com)

I'm working on my first couple of CPAN modules - they seem to be useful and
functional, good times.
I'm reporting errors to the users by, when a problem is found that would
impact execution of the module, setting $@ and returning undef.  The POD

Is there a Subversion module in the works?  I've seen ones for svnlook,
svnlog, ect... but not one just for Subversion.

 To start off with I need to explain that I am definately a novice at
using Perl.  I have inherited a couple of access databases that call on
perl scripts to scrape data from the internet.  They were working just
fine until the beginning of this week.  From reading posts on here ...

I wrote a Perl program wich uses PostgreSQL. This program was running well for
months until yesterday, when my SysAdmin upgraded the DBD::Pg module for the
current version (1.40).
Now, where I have

Aloha,
GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework.  GNOME
already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to.  It's based on
GLib and uses its object oriented C API style.  The objects have names

I was looking through my CPAN directory and noticed that I
have older versions for various CPAN functions going back
to 1999.
Is there any good reason why I would need to keep versions older

I have written a new module, WWW::Patent::Page, and
propose to submit it to CPAN.  Your comments would be
appreciated.
Does the name seem reasonable? I am happy to take

When cpan goes to do a "get", it first says LWP not available,
then tries NET::Ftp (which failes because it is behind
a FW and needs to use ftp_proxy) and finally lynx.  Lynx works
(fortunately).