Actually XML::Simple is pretty good, and powerful enough for a wide category of problems.

Which shows that you would probably have been wrong here.

This is why I really think a place where users can report on modules, link to similar modules, write why they choose the module and so on would help tremendously.

Even indicating why you DIDN'T choose a module, or why, after evaluating it you rejected it would help authors to improve them.

Plus maintaining a module is quite a burden and if nobody uses it or if there is a better one out there the author can decide to give up on the module and notify users. I know of more than a couple of modules on CPAN that are not maintained and that will never be of much use for anybody. The problem is that they take up 2 lines in the directory listing, just like CGI.pm

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

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