Stories for 2008-01-13

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Test::Builder statistics
    * New CPAN Distributions for January 12, 2008

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| Test::Builder statistics                                           |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday January 12, @15:53 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/2037201              |
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In trying to give more control over how Perl programmers test their
programs, I've had a couple of people tell me that I can't do that
completely since so many people don't use the Test::Builder modules. I
don't understand this objection. Why should I worry that someone who
chooses to use X doesn't get the features that Y provides?

That being said, I decided to figure out some real numbers. I used
CPAN::Mini::Extracted to extract the CPAN libraries and their tests to my
hard drive. I then examined the test programs and tried to figure out
which test modules programs were using. This is all done heuristically,
but from my hand examination of results, it looks pretty close. I
accidentally skipped Test.pm my first time through, but here are the top
ten testing modules (out of 287 used in almost 60,000 test programs) and
the number of times each was used:

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/2037201

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/12/2037201


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| New CPAN Distributions for January 12, 2008                        |
|   posted by pudge on Saturday January 12, @18:30 (Module Listings) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/12/1530241              |
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  * [0]BSD-Getfsent-0.15 -- Get file system descriptor file entry
  * [1]Cache-Memcached-LibMemcached-0.00001 -- Perl Interface to
    libmemcached
  * [2]Carp-Clan-5.10 -- Report errors from perspective of caller of a
    "clan" of modules
  * [3]Catalyst-Plugin-Scheduler-0.08 -- Schedule events to run in a
    cron-like fashion
  * [4]Catalyst-View-TT-0.26 -- Template View Class
  * [5]CatalystX-Foorum-0.1.2 -- Forum/BBS system based on Catalyst
  * [6]Config-Pit-0.03 -- Manage settings
  * [7]DBD-Oracle-1.20 -- Oracle database driver for the DBI module
  * [8]DBM-Deep-1.0007 -- A pure perl multi-level hash/array DBM that
    supports transactions
  * [9]Data-FeatureFactory-0.01 -- evaluate features normally or
    numerically
  * [10]Data-FeatureFactory-0.02 -- evaluate features normally or
    numerically
  * [11]Data-FeatureFactory-0.03 -- evaluate features normally or
    numerically
  * [12]Data-Libra-0.0.4 -- Generates unique and random values from a
    string.
  * [13]Date-Simple-3.03_03 -- a simple date object
  * [14]Devel-DTrace-0.07 -- Enable dtrace probes for subroutine entry,
    exit
  * [15]Device-USB-MissileLauncher-RocketBaby-1.01 -- interface to toy
    missile launchers from Dream Cheeky
  * [16]FCGI-Engine-0.01 -- A flexible engine for running FCGI-based
    applications
  * [17]FCGI-Engine-0.02 -- A flexible engine for running FCGI-based
    applications
  * [18]Games-BonDigi-0.01
  * [19]HTML-Template-Compiled-Filter-Whitespace-0.04 -- whitespace
    filter for HTML output
  * [20]IO-Socket-SSL-1.12_1 -- Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for
    IO::Socket::INET.
  * [21]LEOCHARRE-CLI-1.10 -- useful subs for coding cli scripts
  * [22]Locale-SubCountry-1.40 -- convert state, province, county etc.
    names to/from code
  * [23]Math-Complex-1.44 -- complex numbers and associated mathematical
    functions
  * [24]MooseX-Object-Pluggable-0.0006 -- Make your classes pluggable
  * [25]Net-Jabber-Bot-2.0.3 -- Automated Bot creation with safeties
  * [26]Net-MRIM-1.02 -- Perl implementation of mail.ru agent protocol
  * [27]P2P-Transmission-0.01 -- Interface to the Transmission BitTorrent
    client
  * [28]P2P-Transmission-0.02 -- Interface to the Transmission BitTorrent
    client
  * [29]POE-Component-Server-Echo-1.56 -- A POE component that implements
    an RFC 862 Echo server.
  * [30]POE-Component-WWW-Search-Mininova-0.01 -- non-blocking POE
    wrapper for WWW::Search::Mininova
  * [31]Parley-0.58_12 -- Message board / forum application
  * [32]Parse-Marpa-0.001_070 -- (pre-Alpha) Jay Earley's general parsing
    algorithm, with LR(0) precomputation
  * [33]Perl6-Doc-0.34_1 -- all useful Perl 6 Docs in your command line
  * [34]RT-Client-Console-0.0.5 -- Text based RT console
  * [35]Regexp-CharClasses-1.2 -- Provide character classes
  * [36]Sledge-Request-Apache-I18N-0.02
  * [37]Text-Markdown-1.0.4
  * [38]Text-Markdown-1.0.5
  * [39]Time-Duration-Parse-0.05 -- Parse string that represents time
    duration
  * [40]Tk-Bounded-1.0 -- Base class for widgets derived and bound binded
    from others
  * [41]Tk-DataTree-0.05 -- A tree widget for arbitrary data structures
  * [42]VCI-0.4.1 -- A generic interface for interacting with various
    version-control systems.
  * [43]Video-PlaybackMachine-0.06 -- Perl extension for creating a
    television station
  * [44]Video-Xine-0.12 -- Perl interface to libxine
  * [45]WWW-Myspace-Data-0.16 -- WWW::Myspace database interaction
  * [46]WWW-Myspace-FriendAdder-0.16 -- Interactively add friends to your
    Myspace account
  * [47]WWW-Search-Mininova-0.02 -- Interface to www.mininova.org Torrent
    site
  * [48]WWW-Search-Mininova-0.03 -- Interface to www.mininova.org Torrent
    site
  * [49]WWW-Zorpia-Upload-0.04 -- upload photos to www.zorpia.com
  * [50]WebService-LastFM-0.04 -- Simple interface to Last.FM Web service
    API
  * [51]YAML-Tiny-1.24_01 -- Read/Write YAML files with as little code as
    possible
  * [52]warnings-compat-0.06 -- warnings.pm emulation for pre-5.6 Perls

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/01/12/1530241

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/BSD-Getfsent-0.15
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Cache-Memcached-LibMemcached-0.00001
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~jjore/Carp-Clan-5.10
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~agrundma/Catalyst-Plugin-Scheduler-0.08
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-View-TT-0.26
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/CatalystX-Foorum-0.1.2
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~satoh/Config-Pit-0.03
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~pythian/DBD-Oracle-1.20
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~rkinyon/DBM-Deep-1.0007
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~sixtease/Data-FeatureFactory-0.01
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~sixtease/Data-FeatureFactory-0.02
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~sixtease/Data-FeatureFactory-0.03
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~hiratara/Data-Libra-0.0.4
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~izut/Date-Simple-3.03_03
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Devel-DTrace-0.07
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~pen/Device-USB-MissileLauncher-RocketBaby-1.01
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/FCGI-Engine-0.01
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/FCGI-Engine-0.02
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/Games-BonDigi-0.01
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~steffenw/HTML-Template-Compiled-Filter-Whitespace-0.04
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/IO-Socket-SSL-1.12_1
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/LEOCHARRE-CLI-1.10
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~kimryan/Locale-SubCountry-1.40
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/Math-Complex-1.44
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~groditi/MooseX-Object-Pluggable-0.0006
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/Net-Jabber-Bot-2.0.3
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~aau/Net-MRIM-1.02
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~bgilmore/P2P-Transmission-0.01
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~bgilmore/P2P-Transmission-0.02
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-Server-Echo-1.56
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-Search-Mininova-0.01
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~chisel/Parley-0.58_12
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Parse-Marpa-0.001_070
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/Perl6-Doc-0.34_1
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~dams/RT-Client-Console-0.0.5
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-CharClasses-1.2
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~horiuchi/Sledge-Request-Apache-I18N-0.02
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Text-Markdown-1.0.4
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Text-Markdown-1.0.5
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/Time-Duration-Parse-0.05
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~dmpetit/Tk-Bounded-1.0
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~mhx/Tk-DataTree-0.05
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~mkanat/VCI-0.4.1
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~stephen/Video-PlaybackMachine-0.06
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~stephen/Video-Xine-0.12
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~oalders/WWW-Myspace-Data-0.16
   46. http://search.cpan.org/~oalders/WWW-Myspace-FriendAdder-0.16
   47. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/WWW-Search-Mininova-0.02
   48. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/WWW-Search-Mininova-0.03
   49. http://search.cpan.org/~fayland/WWW-Zorpia-Upload-0.04
   50. http://search.cpan.org/~kentaro/WebService-LastFM-0.04
   51. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/YAML-Tiny-1.24_01
   52. http://search.cpan.org/~saper/warnings-compat-0.06



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