Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / April 2008

I'm seeing a sudden rush of "this is a perl blog" posts on
use.perl.org in some attempt to SEO Perl.
It would seem to me that the ideal way to get an "important" site to
link to Perl blogs would be for search.cpan.org to have a "blog" link

    Ok, so here's what must be a question with a really simple answer:
how do I write a perl app?
    For example: I want to display a jpeg.
MyApp/script/display.pl:

i'm writing a tk app that i'm shipping as a cpan dist. this app needs
some extra resource files (icons, etc) i'd like to know what's the best
method to ship extra data files in a dist.
where to put them in the dist tar file:

Hi, I use Linux Debian Etch. Since Divert sockets is not available on
the
2.6.18-5-686 kernel, i compiled a 2.6.12.3 kernel and iptables 1.3.1,
with the required divert socket patches and installed it.

I've been pulling together a module that acts as a replacement for
Tk::Text but handles keyboard input similar to Vi (originally to stop
me from sticking "dd" all over my config files, but it seems like one
of those things silly enough that others might get some use out of

file: $CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Text-CSV_XS-0.42.tgz
  size: 86136 bytes
   md5: 1cf4491f48965793f1e31fc74159f20f
We can do MAGIC now!

I have a little complicated problem...
I have two arrays
@a = ( ['id', 'name', 'age'],
          ['1', 'Fred', '24'],

I've downloaded the Curses-1.23 module from CPAN and am attempting to
install it on my Solaris 8 system.  I've not installed Perl modules
before and I'm looking for some clarification on instructions in the
included INSTALL file that comes with the module.

   Hi.  I wonder to whom may I report the CPAN repository indexing
problems?  I found several strange result when I query the CPAN
repository.  For example, the most current version of Lingua::Features
is 0.3.1, but the 02packages.details.txt.gz says:

I'm writing an perl script which should communicate over a serial
port. The script should be able to run in Linux and Win32
environments. In both environments exist modules to access the serial
port:

I am trying to replace this
print "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"page\" value=$page>\n";
with this
print hidden(-name=>"page", -value=>$page);

Greets!
Is there a module for the A* algorithm? (Shortest path between 2
Vertices in a graph)
I tried Google and CPAN search, but apparently my search-foo is weak today.

I'm trying to figure out whether this has been done before and/or
looking for suggestions on the best way to implement it.
I would like the "publish" clients to connect to a server, then publish
their message and disconnect.  (Optionally, they can stay connected and

we have been discussing with Domm how CPANTS should check if a
distribution declares each of its prerequisites correctly which brought
us to the the point that we have a problem.
Let's focus for now only on dependencies on other CPAN modules and

http://xrl.us/bi6n9 (link to svn.berlios.de) is a functional spec for a way to
tag and classify CPAN modules. Those tags and catgories should end up in the
META.yml. However, inserting them by hand by editing the Build.PL will be:
1. Error-prone.