Next round: elimination

[email protected] (Nathan Torkington) Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:19:37 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It looks like everyone wanted to say "yeah, I like all those modules"
and thought that not voting was good enough.  I guess it was, because
I'm now pushing all the candidate modules through to the next stage:
elimination.

In this round, contestants will parade in swimsuits will reciting
the Declaration of Independence and playing the theme from "Happy
Days" on a toe piano.

No.  This time I want to see which modules you think should be taken
out.  Reasons might include: I don't like the author, the module is
half-assed, nobody cares about the problem the module solves, there's
a better way, licensing issues with associated libraries, or general
whimsy.

You don't have to say why you want the module out, at this point.
Just send me mail saying which you want removed.  Next week we'll go
through and debate, module by module, whether to remove them.

As you can tell, I'm keen to avoid the go-nowhere p5p-ish "sucks!
does not!  does!  does not!  does! ..." class of debate. 

Nat

To jog your memory, here's the list:

Algorithm::Diff
Archive::Tar
BSD::Resource
Bit::Vector
Bundle::DBI
Business::CreditCard
CGI::Base and the other parts of the CGI-modules kit
Chart::Bars and the other parts of Chart-0.99b.tar.gz 
Chart::Graph
Class::Eroot
Class::MethodMaker
Class::Template
Compress::Zlib
Convert::BER
Crypt::CBC
Crypt::DES
Crypt::IDEA
Crypt::SSLeay
DB (need the C library)
DBD::Oracle
DBI
DProf-19990108
Date::Calc
Date::Format
Date::Language
Date::Manip
Date::Parse
Devel-SmallProf-0.5
Devel::CallerItem
Devel::DumpStack
Devel::Symdump
Digest::MD5
Event
File-CounterFile-0.12
File::Copy
File::CounterFile
File::Listing
File::Recurse
File::Spec
File::Tools
Font-AFM-1.18
FreezeThaw
GD (need the C library)
GDBM (need the C library)
GIFgraph
Graph
HTML-Parser-2.23
HTML-Tree-0.51
HTML::Parser
I18N::CharSet
I18N::LangTags
IO-Tty-0.02
IO-stringy-1.207
LWP
LWP-attic-1.00
Lingua::EN::inflect
Locale::Country
Locale::Language
MIME-Base64-2.11
MIME-tools
MLDBM
MailTools
MailFolder
Memoize
Net::Ping
Net::Telnet
Net::Whois
News::NNTPclient
PDL
PGPLOT
PNGgraph
Parse::Lex
Parse::RecDescent
Parse::Yapp
Scalar::ListUtils
Set::Scalar
Sort::ArbBiLex
Storable
String::Approx
Taint
Term::ANSIcolor
Term::ReadKey
Term::ReadLine
Term::ReadLine::GNU
Term::ReadLine::Perl
Text::Balanced
Text::Soundex
Text::Tabs
Text::Wrap
Tie::IxHash
Time-modules
Time::HiRes
TimeDate-1.08
Tk
Tk-Contrib-0.07
Tk-FileDialog-1.3
Tk-HTML-3.002
Tk-Pod-0.11
Tk-WaitBox-1.2
Tk800.014
URI parsing modules from LWP
XML::Parser
cgi-lib.pl
illguts
libnet
lwall-quotes
perl-ldap
perlindex-1.200
the HTML::* and HTTP::* modules that were part of LWP but are now separate (the parser and base and so on)