Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / January 2008

I have some changes I'd like to make to IO::Epoll.
I'm trying to get hold of BRUCEK, its author:
 http://search.cpan.org/~brucek/
I tried mailing the address given, just got a bounce:

I'm finding it difficult to come up with a good testing strategy for an
XS module that's just a thin wrapper around an OS call, without
effectively also testing that function itself. Since its behaviour has
minor variations from system to system, writing a test script that can

I think that something like this can be useful when packing distros. I
end-up with mixed eol (not in the same file) most of the time:
use Test::EOL;
eol('lib/Foo/Bar.pm', 'LF');

I'm trying to parse up a feed but XML::Atom::Feed doesn't seem to
recognize that anything at all is in the XML string I'm feeding to
it.  Here's a complete example of how it is not working:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

Another "Perl Culture" kind of question:
For CPAN packages, is it normal/acceptable/OK to have the POD for a
module in a separate .pod file, instead of inside the .pm?
    MyModule.pm

I have BDB with about 10 million records and every day add ~100K.
Now my perl-script that use it DB work very slow: program spend 4-5
minutes to find 40K records.
Script start every 10 minute, get client identification from some logs

I'm trying to create a Perl script which converts all files within a
directory into JPEG format. First, I read them using two lines
detecting extension (.jpg, .png, ...) but sometimes these files are
wrong and get this error message:

Howdy -
Is this something worth posting to CPAN?  See the POD about two dozen
lines down.  It's like a simpler, faster but dumber flavor of NEXT.
Thanx,

Is it considered bad form to have a module named X::Y, that is not an X?
In otherwords, should Y have a 'use base qw/X/' or an @ISA for X?
I know the language doesn't enforce it, but what's the general concensus
on this?

i'm looking for a vector module to be used in Language::Befunge.
currently, i provide Language::Befunge::Vector which is a pure perl
version of what i'm looking for.
my requirements:

Does it makes sense to include a shebang line at the top of a .pm file?
 For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

What better way to celebrate an arbitrary calendar event than with a new
API for date calculations?
Coming soon to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Piece/
Date::Piece is currently just a Date::Simple object with more operator

I was poking around at scripts to locate all installed modules and I'm a
little confused [or else I'm missing something].  *every* script I found
after a quick Google uses File::Find on @INC, but that seems wrong: my
guess [verified by a quick test pgm] is that 'use' does *NOT* ...

Getting odd messages in the Apache error_log:
[Sun Jan 06 08:46:50 2008] [error] Apache2::RequestIO::read: (70014)
End of file found at (eval 21) line 5
[Sun Jan 06 08:47:27 2008] [error] Apache2::RequestIO::read: (70014)

I have been trying to enable PerlResponseHandler in the <Location /
start > directive of my VirtualHost ...but for some reason it doesn't
work ...
I really cant understand why it does i if  I put it directly to the