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Re: module wish list for perl v5.6.1

by halley (Prior)
on Aug 03, 2003 at 23:04 UTC ( [id://280527]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to module wish list for perl v5.6.1

I guess my first reaction to a question like this one would be, what kinds of things do you need to do with Perl?

What's the company's mission? What's the organization's core competency? What's your group's primary function? What's the strategic direction for new development?

Alternatively, what can't you do today? What tools have been hamstrung by the currently deployed image? For what features have customers been begging in vain?

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Re: Re: module wish list for perl v5.6.1
by edan (Curate) on Aug 04, 2003 at 08:21 UTC
    ...what kinds of things do you need to do with Perl?

    I tried to address this with the following info from my post:

    Some of the things that we do are: text-processing/parsing, sockets, config-file-reading, db (mysql) stuff, http-request-parsing, process-management, ssl and ssh, ...

    I realize that's not a ton of info, but I'm trying not to reveal any sensitive company information here... basically I was just looking for generally useful modules, and I tried to give an idea of what we do, to help narrow down the criteria. I can't go describing exactly what we do and how we do it, but I'm looking for things that are handy for daemon processes, network communication, text-processing, some number handling (like 64-bit bitmap vectors), watching process status (number of threads, CPU usage), setting event timers, communicating with C-programs (are there any good alternatives to rolling-your-own message-handling routines with pack/unpack?), writing/reading to/from a DB, etc.

    It's not about customers wanting features - it's about me as the perl-programmer having the maximum set of tools at my disposal rather than frequently having to roll-my-own due to lack of module-installation capability...

    Is that enough info?

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