Well most of the <Module>::Simple are not industrial strength modules. They are the lite version that you can use... a lot of default assumptions are made to make your life easier.

On the other hand if you think you are going to be doing a lot of specific things or you need a high level of control then you want to look at the higher grade modules. Unfortunately when given a choice between two or more very similar looking modules it is hard to make a choice and there often isn't enough documentation provided to make a good decision.

Keeping that in mind I would suggest checking the news groups or see if the person who wrote the module has a website up so you can see what they have done, what state the code is in and such. Often looking at the logs of what has been fixed can give you a good idea if you want to use the module or not. If it looks like a lot of fixing is being done on fundamental routines you may want to stay away, if however fixes are being done that are mostly trivial then the code is probably about as ready as you need it.

Much beyond that yes it is very difficult to get up to speed on the different modules and really the only way to figure out what is best for you is to play aroud with them yourself, ask somebody you trust, or find a place where you can research it.

We've all got this problem, well except for maybe some of the Perl gurus, but even then there are just so many modules I'm not sure they know the state of "all" modules. Good luck in making an educated guess :)

In reply to RE: Perl Module evaluation mechanism by gaspodethewonderdog
in thread Perl Module evaluation mechanism by mirod

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