nysus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I'm in the middle of writing a module to replace a CPAN module that I consider to be poorly written. But I've never written a module for CPAN before and I'm wondering if it's worth my time to submit this one if there is a similar module out there.
That's the gist of my question. If you want to hear the gory details...
I was on CPAN yesterday looking for a tool to download images from a website and came across HTTP-GetImages. It purportedly does what I want, except it doesn't. It appears to be broken. For instance, the author wrote his own malfunctioning hack to generate absolute file paths instead of using URI.pm. It doesn't handle search links contained in javascript pop-up boxes. And it seems to me to needlessly use anonymous arrays and hashes, adding to the comlexity of maintaing and debugging the code.
I spent about an hour looking through above module's code and finally decided that instead of trying to fix the module, it would be more fun and give me badly needed practice writing my own module from scratch. So far, so good, I'm about halfway done with my release.
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Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 07, 2003 at 21:00 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 07, 2003 at 22:39 UTC | |
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 07, 2003 at 22:49 UTC | |
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jul 08, 2003 at 16:52 UTC | |
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 08, 2003 at 19:13 UTC | |
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by belg4mit (Prior) on Jul 07, 2003 at 23:04 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2003 at 18:10 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 07, 2003 at 18:18 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by tadman (Prior) on Jul 07, 2003 at 18:09 UTC | |
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jul 08, 2003 at 16:37 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by flounder99 (Friar) on Jul 07, 2003 at 18:20 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 07, 2003 at 18:25 UTC | |
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2003 at 20:11 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by Albannach (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 21:17 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 07, 2003 at 22:39 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by kral (Monk) on Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by giulienk (Curate) on Jul 08, 2003 at 13:31 UTC | |
Re: Reinvent a broken wheel?
by David Caughell (Monk) on Jul 08, 2003 at 18:48 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 08, 2003 at 18:57 UTC | |
by William G. Davis (Friar) on Jul 08, 2003 at 21:31 UTC | |
by nysus (Parson) on Jul 08, 2003 at 22:02 UTC |
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