On 01/03/2014 12:48 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:22:48 -0500
Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:
i haven't seen that before but it was last touched in 2005.
That means it has no bugs. A better metric of a modules quality is how
many outstanding bugs are? See
https://rt.cpan.org//Dist/Display.html?Queue=File-Inplace
it also means it may be rotting on the vine. or no one uses it to report
bugs. or it is an orphan module. or no requests for new features
(popular modules always get that). stable doesn't always mean it is
good. considering i wrote edit_file_lines and never heard of that until
now. it says the module isn't known or used. in fact metacpan says it
has no reverse dependencies (not one module or distribution uses it).
not bragging but file::slurp has over 600 reverse dependencies. that
means i get feature requests, more bug reports, etc.
you may need to look at the whole picture before you decide to use a
module. if this module was so useful, why isn't it being used by anyone
since 2005? i think a major negative is the very odd api which i already
mentioned. you have to do a lot of work to use it and it doesn't gain
much because of that. it does have a commit/rollback thing but again,
that is easy to code up yourself. just write to a temp file and either
rename it or delete it. not much of a win there.
uri
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