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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by viraptor on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:00AM (#2230734)
Still the same. Also, few people look at bugs reported via cpan. I never got a response to any of mine. At least you can see some packages going red on more and more systems, so it's quite easy to spot the useless/unmaintained ones.

True regarding duplication - if I had a penny for every new incomplete logging framework uploaded to CPAN, I'd be a rich man...

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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by jrockway on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:59AM (#2230888)
No, people stopped writing logging frameworks years ago. Even Log4Perl and Log::Dispatch interoperate now. The cool new thing is web frameworks. But of course, due to PSGI, those all work together too! "There's more than one way to do it", but at least you can deploy them all to production in the same way.

As for bugs; trust me, people reply to them. Take a look at how many Moose bugs are "resolved", for example: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Status=Resolved.... That's a lot more than "never".

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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by viraptor on Thursday February 17, 2011 @02:12PM (#2232346)
Stopped? Years ago? Log::Fine (2008), Amphibic::Log (2010), Su::Log (2011), Easy::Log (2007), Log::Smart (2007), Log::Deep (2009), Util::Thread::Logger (2011), ...

I won't even mention all the one-module-specific mini-logging scripts which do it yet another way.

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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by jrockway on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:12PM (#2233905)
Who cares? So one guy posts his code to the Internet for people to look at, and there are a lot of one guys. What's the solution to this "problem"?
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Re:What’s so great about CPAN anyway? by draegtun on Friday February 18, 2011 @06:26AM (#2235053)
I suppose its another rite of passage like making template modules/frameworks which you see in abundance in all language repos :)
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