in reply to Why aren't you using Google::API::Client?

So why isn't it more popular?

How did you find out it is not popular? Did Google Discovery tell you through their services?

I don't (and hopefully don't have to) use Google Services programmatically, so that's why I haven't heard of that module until now.
So that's why it is unpopular with me.
But thanks for the hint; I might have to dig through that the day I have to interact with ol'DataLeviathan Google more than today.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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Re^2: Why aren't you using Google::API::Client?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 25, 2016 at 13:19 UTC
    How did you find out it is not popular?

    Popularity measures are universally flawed. However, I'd suggest that the rating and the lack of plussers are as good an indication as any. At least the repo has a few stars.

Re^2: Why aren't you using Google::API::Client?
by mla12 (Acolyte) on Oct 24, 2016 at 21:54 UTC
    How did you find out it is not popular? Did Google Discovery tell you through their services?

    Naw, I inferred it from the fact that the author's repo has a couple unreleased bug fixes from May of '15.

    I rediscovered one of the bugs over the weekend, so I was encouraging the author to make a new release, and I thought I'd post here to see if we can generate some more interest.

    Hope he's not going to abandon it because it's really nice to have the same interface across multiple G services.

      Naw, I inferred it from the fact that the author's repo has a couple unreleased bug fixes from May of '15.
      I've yet to find a need to use Google at an API level beyond their OAuth mess but unincorporated fixes just means Google::API::Client isn't popular with the author.
        ...unincorporated fixes just means Google::API::Client isn't popular with the author.

        My hope was simply to raise the profile of this great tool.

        I believe it isn't popular, based on my what I've seen. Perhaps my methodology there is flawed. I really don't care. My goal was not to prove that it's unpopular.

Re^2: Why aren't you using Google::API::Client?
by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 24, 2016 at 17:55 UTC

    AMEN! and + +.


    ++$anecdote ne $data