Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / July 2007

I am new to perl programming.
I am trying to call one of my exe using Create function present in
Win32::Process.
Following is the code I have written,

I'm disappointed to see CPAN's total lack of a resolution policy if
authors of buggy (but otherwise useful) modules become unresponsive, so
I'm posting here as I have no idea what else I can do.  I've been unable
to contact the authors of the two modules listed in the subject by ...

Hi, I've got a cute little ASCII plotting module that I'd like to
release to CPAN, but I don't know how to create a Makefile.PL file.
I've looked at some examples but they are too complex and confusing.
Could someone point me to some documentation or post a barebones

I just did a quick google search of the perl groups and was not able to
locate any relevant information: I'm trying to find out if there is any
kind of informal method available to gain confidence that a particular
CPAN module is reliable.  I know there is no formal process, but it

I've got a CPAN module I've written that has Data::Dumper
listed in PREREQ_PM, because it has some tests that use it.
These tests are failing with this odd message:
t/relate...........Can't load '/home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so' for ...

when trying to install net::ssh::perl on fedora core 5, it hangs at this
step :
t/03-packet......ok 1/10
i don't know if it hangs ont other distributions... it's a known

I wrote script which work propertly on Linux Kubuntu but when I try run
it on Windows XP with Active Perl I've this warning:
POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecture at temp2.pl line 7.
Please help....

Heya!
I'm working on a Perlish web server.  Have a bit of history:  I once had
a job where we used PHP.  It was okay, but I felt it wasn't a real
programming language.  At my new job, we use Perl.  I like using Perl.

I am trying to use the nice Email::Send (and friends) module and have
a problem creating the 'envelope from' as documented at
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Send/lib/Email/Send/SMTP.pm#ENVELOPE_GENERATION
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Gang,
    I am working on a project and would like to incorporate an (auto)
update feature.  Does anyone know of an update framework that
currently exists for perl?  If not, would anyone have any suggestions

I'm seeking an alternativ to the win32::ODBC module.
Here's why: The same query running trought George Poulous Query Tool
take 2 minutes, but under perl trought a Win32::ODBC takes more than
30 minutes!

I'm looking to upload my first module to CPAN, so I've come looking for
some namespace advice.
SlimServer is the brains behind the Squeezebox hardware music player
(http://www.slimdevices.com/).  It happens to be written in Perl.

Sorry this message went to a wrong thread first ... and I'm also
struggling with PAUSE: I get an error
The PAUSE indexer was not able to read the file. It issued the following
error: C< Could not open

Dead link or just down?
7/15

I have got a very strange looking issue. I have a perl code which
reads the serial port.
I have the following  configuration for the port
   #!/usr/bin/perl