There are a few module recommendations, one of the most prominent is the The Perl Advent Calendar. And it is really usefull from time to time to find out new interesting modules. But still for most of the tasks I can find what I need using CPAN Search. With only one caveat, sometimes the modules I find are not the best quality, sometimes they have better replacements, but I just happened to find the worse alternative first. I would spare lots of time if I was warned about them. So here is my proposal for listing the modules that dissapointed you with reasons why.
I start with:
- Class::DBI::Pager - that module does not use 'LIMIT' clauses in the database, there are better alternatives: Class::DBI::Sweet and Class::DBI::Plugin::Pager
- HTML::Diff - this module uses regular expressions for parsing HTML
- Data::Dumper::Simple - this is a nice module, but it uses source filters so it's correctness is much less sure than more traditional modules
2005-12-10 jdporter retitled
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