There's simply a lack of need for it. There are lots of modules that you might be the only person to ever want or need.

Take for example one of my modules - XML::LibRSVG, and interface to the gnome librsvg API. Now this would be a very cool replacement for something like GD for building charts and graphs, along with a zillion other uses, if I developed it more thoroughly, but nobody ever asks about it, or posts bugs for it, so I can only presume there is very little interest in it.

But then there's things like DBD::SQLite. SQLite had been around for ages before I wrote this, but I was the first to write an interface to it. And it's now my most popular module by a long shot.

So don't give up hope - write the code and stick it on CPAN. It'll either get used or it won't, but either way you'll feel better for publishing it.

In reply to Need by Matts
in thread Net::Bittorrent by jettero

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