I think Gavin Estrey's site is a GREAT idea. I was just going to suggest if we could have a central place where we could dicuss specific CPAN modules. Many of the larger projects have mailing lists and/or sourceforge projects.

I author a smaller module (Finance::YahooProfile) that is used by at least 20 people that I know of. I feel too lazy to maintain a website, discussion board, and a mailing list for this. I would like it if there were an auto-generated sourceforge-like site for CPAN modules.

For now, I like the CPAN wiki and will start using it extensively. Especially given the open-source nature of CPAN people other than the author will discover bugs or new ways to use the module. A wiki allows everyone to add to the documentation.

$will->code for @food or $$;

In reply to Re: Re: Tried and True CPAN Modules by smalhotra
in thread Tried and True CPAN Modules by Rhandom

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