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The idea's nice, but I don't see why I should have to install a slough of stuff to use it. Also, it seems as though it does not use SSL to authenticate, or offer the option, tsk tsk? Finally, reading the description (as opposed to the POD) I'd figured it was going to handle modules in site_perl.

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Re^2: submit-cpan-ratings - upload ratings to CPAN for stuff you've used
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 23, 2004 at 21:41 UTC

    http://ratings.cpan.org doesn't use SSL so neither do I.

    Most of the stuff in this module are already core in perl5. The additions are AppConfig::Std which makes being a perl-script with embedded documentation exceedingly nice (and configuration, etc). It also lets me piggy-back on cpan-upload's .pause file which makes the entire process even easier. I also avoided reams of plumbing work dealing with HTML parsing and the like by using WWW::Mechanize. I'm not sure what additional modules you thought were excessive but getting those two in makes it Just Right.

    I have no idea what in the POD would lead you to think I was going to examine site_perl.

      No, I said the description implies reading site_perl; which seems like a good feature to add since it's not there; the POD then clarifies that this not the case.

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        I'm confused. The POD is a copy of the description. I wrote it once, made a copy and altered the markup from POD to HTML. What part of the description implies it reads site_perl?

        I don't know of any good way to do this other than oh... parse all the perl in site_perl and use pause-like techniques to find the packages. Yeah, ok. Maybe I do know how to do this. Neat feature suggestion!