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Of course the time and work I have to spend to install modules stands in no relation to the time spent and effort put into writing, testing and maintaining just one of the modules I install along with the top-level target, and I am not wanting to be ungrateful; giving back is maybe the strongest reason for hanging out here on PerlMonks. I'd write useful modules myself if I were more brillant and faced problems for which there isn't a module yet on CPAN; or if I could significantly improve existing solutions.

If you want something to work on, I'd love to give you either PDF::Template and/or Excel::Template. Or, I could use help working on DBM::Deep on Win32. Or, any of the other 20 really cool module ideas I have rattling around that I simply don't have time to work on. Like Presto. Or PerlGems.

You did note the "small benefit" part? I am not arguing for dependency-free modules, but for as little dependencies as possible, which of course is no absolute, but something worth thinking of; and "as possible" has many constraints.

So, I go ahead and put in a dep on ABC because it saves me half the project. It has a dep on DEF cause that saves it half the project. DEF's author is stupid and has 30 deps. Should I avoid ABC because of that?

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Challenge: CPAN Golf by dragonchild
in thread Challenge: CPAN Golf by shmem

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