Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / September 2008

I have a module, STAFService, that is not actually a module - it's an
embedding plugin of Perl inside other program. (STAF)
The output of the build process is a dll / so, that STAF loads and uses.
So, of course, the make script is not a standard EU::MM / M::B, but some

I uploaded a module to CPAN, and got a surprising email, saying that
PAUSE failed to index my module, because it had world writable directories.
Now, I understand the concern. My question is, considering that I work
on a Windows machine, and have all the normal Windows tools + ...

After much tireless work by Eric Wilhelm and lots of feedback from
patient & nonpatient users alike, I'm pleased to announce that version
0.30 of Module::Build is now on CPAN.  This is the first non-beta
release in a long time.

i have many modules which inturn use among themselvs.. some times i
get the following error..
Can't locate <>.pm in @INC though it is present in that location.. i
doubt this occurs because of multiple or cyclic inclusions of

I have a timing issue with the usage of "sleep" within my perl-expect
script.
This is an example script to describe my problem:
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This has me puzzled. This code worked on another server, but it's
failing on perl v5.8.8, with Date::Manip loaded from CPAN today.
Warning:
Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /home/downside/lib/Date/Manip.pm

I am running a mail server using Slackware on a 2.4.18 kernel i686.
A mailscanner/mailwatch upgrade required an upgrade to Perl and a number of
Perl modules. I upgraded Perl to 5.8.8 which broke some of the existing
modules. I have upgraded most of these except for Net::SSLeay ...

Howdy folks,
I have been lurking here for quite a while and I figured it was time
that I ask some questions that have been bouncing around
my head. This summer I had the pleasure of being part of the Google

I know how to read and "tail" the Utmp files on the systems I have
access to.  We now have OSX machines that are using the Utmpx system
and the records are not as straight forward to read.
I am looking at the User::Utmp modure since it will handle either type

I am looking for Graciliano Monteiro Passos (GMPASSOS) author of 25 or so
Perl Modules on CPAN.  I have tried to send him an email at his CPAN address
and even tried an email address that I found on google.  Does anyone know
how to get in touch with him.

I'm not sure if this is the place, so correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
just guessing this mailing list is more frequently read by those I
think are involved, so apologizes if this isn't the place..
I tried using Data::Validate::Domain (specifically exporting the

I have a dist with a plethora of modules (in directory lib) that are
specific to the application and therefore need not be indexed.
Actually, it is undesired to have them indexed.
I tried to put

   Hi.  This is imacat from Taiwan.  I found a strange recorded in
02packages.details.txt.gz:
imacat@rinse ~ % gunzip -c 02packages.details.txt.gz | grep
ModPerl::MethodLookup

I found myself wanting to check whether some code had a $SIG{__DIE__} in
it and realized I still had this silly module in my experiments
directory.
This throws an error whenever a $SIG{__DIE__} is assigned without a

I have a script which uses the text::diff module and I cant figure out
how to use the output
I can print the result, but I need to parse the results into a array
of strings and format it.