Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / February 2008

I have some modules that depend on external tools, like ghostscript,
mplayer, and mencoder.
Alien seems to be developed to handle dependencies on external
libraries. Could Alien be used for depending on external tools as

I need a small help.
This module has been used by automation team at my company earlier but
i am unable to locate it on CPAN.
Can someone point me to the location? I need to use this module itself

Hello all.. I'm having trouble getting HTML::Template to output. Here
is a simple script and config snippet:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Script (index.pl):

Is there a generally approved way for an XS module to test for the  
existence of a C compiler before attempting to build?
I'd like to avoid test failures that result from the lack of a  
compiler without risking failing to build on a system that has an  

Typically I install modules using the ActiveState package manager, but
when installing the Curses modules I've been downloading them and
unzipping the files into the Perl lib dir (package manager doesn't have
this module).

I have built perl 5.10.0 on a SPARC Solaris 10 platform with the
Sun Studio 12 C compiler. I would like now to build the module
Encode::Detect which comes with C++ source files in the src/ sub-
directory. The usual

Looking for comments on the name, as well as the function of this
module proposal.  This will be my first public module submission, of a
module I have developed and used privately for a few months.  The
intention of the module is to provide a FIFO queue for execution of

I wish to capture data from a Web page e.g.
"http://www.eppraisal.com/PropertyInfo.aspx?a=1215%20Jefferson
%20Ave&z=46201"
I am using the LWP modules.

I recently had my hand slapped (in the nicest possible way!) for this
in the principal module of a CPAN submission.
use version; our $VERSION = qv("1.0.0"); # Also appears ...
our $VERSION = 1.0000;

I'm trying to write a DHCP stress tester to mimic thousands of
complete
DHCP transactions (discover, offer, request, ack) and record the
results.

I need to implement SQL database with tables storing simple objects
(by "simple objects" I mean objects consisting of simple values, not
containing other objects). However there are several classes and some
classes are derived from other classes. For every class I introduce a

I'm trying to install CGI::EncryptForm on a windows machine. However I
don't see this module availiable in the latest PPM repository.
Has this package been depricated in favor of something else? If so
what is that new package, or where can I find a PPM install for this

Here is a little program that compares
if m^n < n!
The problem is that it hangs out. No matter if I use bignum.
It appears related with the division of big numbers.

http://log.perl.org/2008/02/no-more-email-d.html
Well I guess that settles that. :)
xoxo,
Andy

I've tried to set up an output filter to make my life esier in
developing a site. Rather than explicitly output SSI directives inside
the response handlers or registry scripts, I've made an output filter
like so: