Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / July 2009

I'm preparing a module for CPAN and I used module-starter to set it up.
 I think I understand all the files it created except one:
t/boilerplate.t  What does it do?

I would like to print out the differences between the two variables
instead of just printing the varialbe again after it determines
someithing was added; I just want to print what was added. Any ideas?
#!/usr/bin/perl

I seek the wisdom of any other module authors that might have come
across this problem.
Recently, I uploaded a new version of Math::Random::ISAAC::XS and ran
into a *lot* of regressions. I've looked at the diff and I didn't

I am getting a string value from a function .A variable is exist by that
string value. Need to print the value using the second variable!
Example:
my $log_dir="hello";

I created a CPAN distribution with module-starter and I have developped a
perl module creating my *.pm file in the lib/ directory and it uses a
template file that is also in the lib/ directory. It works when I do the
tests with  "prove -l t/*.t".

I have a bunch of scraping scripts to do various things for me, and I
mostly use HTML::TreeBuilder and then HTML::Element features. ( use
WWW::Mechanize for retrieving pages)
While it works and I am grateful, I wonder if perhaps someone invented

Dear,
I need your help about procedure to create a patch for a CPAN module.
I want to propose a new method to a module on CPAN. I have created
this method and I have added it in the script .pm on my PC and it is

I have been embracing Moose and Catalyst and I have written a Moose Role
to provide BreadCrumb trail navigation for a web application written in
Catalyst.
Hopefully there are some Catalyst programmers on here?

I'd appreciate some advice here.
Getopt::Auto was conceived by Simon Cozens. I've recently adopted it.
The idea with Getopt::Auto is that it scans your POD looking for =heads
or =item that have the format: 'foo - what this does is bar', the

I need to write a filter (stdin->stdout) which can handle
MIME-formatted E-Mail messages of arbitrary size and will remove all
mime/multipart stuff, leaving only the first text/plain part intact
(including its encoding, my native language needs at least

I took over [this module][1] from Simon Cozens nearly 5 years ago
when [he gave away his modules][2], but never got around to any
of my ideas for it. What was I thinking? In hindsight, I don’t
get around to my own ideas for comparable lengths of time; I

I have a new module that provides a simple way to run functions when the
screen saver starts/stops (X11 or Gnome Screen saver only currently). I'm
not sure what to call it currently it is tentatively call
Event::ScreenSaver<http://github ...

I intend to upload to CPAN the WWW::Spider module whose header is
shown below.  I am looking for comments/complaints/ideas about the
namespace and/or usefulness of this module (e.g., any functionality
missing or not necessary).

Last year I started seeing change logs in perl modules that looked
more YAMLish. Is there any spec out there on this? I'm currently just
copying input from `git log --pretty=oneline' into my Changes file and
as of this moment, including the git repo URL.

At various places around our system we want to clean up files older  
than x, and sometimes prune empty directories. Naturally we have to be  
careful doing this lest we accidentally blow away far too many of the  
wrong files.