Hi fellow Monks, My question is not anything to do with Perl syntax, but rather on style...

In the course of my work, I've discovered a lot of new and cool uses for Perl. Its pretty fair to say its saved me a lot of grunt work.. some of the uses that I've had for Perl include
checking an Oracle database for schema changes, and mailing these schema changes to myself (a hacked up Oracle change manager)
A squid log file interface
lotsa mail interfaces, to check/send mail out etc?

Now, through no choice of my own, my primary work OS is Windows, and I don't have access to Visual C++ (required for XS modules from CPAN).. so, where the ActivePerl repository doesn't have it, I end up writing my own stuff..

Should I share the stuff I do with others, even when there is a module already, or should I not "taint" the official module out there... I'd love to share my work, not only to help someone else out, but also because I think I can learn a lot about Perl that way...

What do you think ? and how should I go about using my code to serve someone else? any ideas ?

point to note is that a lot of the module code out there seems to intimidate me ;o) my stuff gets the job done, but I don't really know how clever it is... or isn't..

In reply to to reuse or to write my own ? by tinman

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