Ready made scripts hardly ever fit in real situations
Scripts are applications. Are you saying there's no market for applications? Modules only appeal to developers, which are just a tiny minority of the computer users.

Anyway, I guess whenever you want to fetch a document using HTTP or FTP (for instance, because you want to read Perlmonks, or you want to download a module), you write a script using LWP::UserAgent. I prefer firefox, wget or GET, ready made applications (and in the case of GET, a perl script) most of the time. I only need LWP::UserAgent if I need to do something special.

I firmly believe the Matt's (insert useful thingy here) script days are over.
I really don't see your point here. Are you saying the "modules on CPAN are wonderful pieces of code - scripts on CPAN are filled with security holes"? Or what? Matt may have written lousy software, but it filled a need. Matt scripts would never had become a problem if there was an alternative. Ready made applications will always be in demand.
Ready made scripts hardly ever fit in real situations and thus usually need tweaking anyway.
Yeah, they are called command line options.
Sourceforge and the before mentioned Hotscripts are better suited places, in my opinion.
Huh? I fail to understand. You make several posts argueing against the idea of having ready made scripts at all, and then at the end, you come two sites that are "better suited places". I don't follow you at all anymore.

In reply to Re^2: Distribution of Program and/or Module by Anonymous Monk
in thread Distribution of Program and/or Module by pboin

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