Some of these scripts drive the back ends for multi-million pound companies [...]

Right, but the guy who wrote the CPAN module probably did so to help him out with a 20 liner at home; conversely, if the module had been written for a multi-million pound company in the first place, chances are it would never have been okayed for release to CPAN.

Now I don't run a multi-million pound company, but I do see it as my responsibility to audit the CPAN code I employ, more or less carefully according to the criticality of the operations I'm using it for. If I'm not happy with the code I don't use it - either I roll my own, or I adapt it for my needs.

While it would be nice if all the code offered for free on CPAN were perfect, we're unlikely to reach that happy state any time soon.

One perfectly valid option is to offer the author some money to harden their code, either direct or through the convenience of a TPF grant.

Hugo

In reply to Re: Re: Re: <rant>CPAN modules failing to check for write errors</rant> by hv
in thread <rant>CPAN modules failing to check for write errors</rant> by Anonymous Monk

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