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Mac-Spotlight (0.01)

This module would be a great asset to people on OSX, except it doesn't compile. I think I found a workaround for that though (see bug #35603). Unfortunately I doubt that the issue will be addressed as the second-to-last bug is two years old. YMMV.

rvosa - 2008-05-02 14:16:59
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PathTools (3.25)

One of the standard libraries in the perl tool belt, File::Spec is what you will want to use to chop up and concatenate paths portably. Don't assume forward slashes will just work everywhere and paste stuff together by hand, use File::Spec. Very useful module.

rvosa - 2007-12-05 04:33:50
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XUL-Node (0.05)

XUL::Node sounds like a wonderful idea for building server side xul applications. Xul is the xml application that is used throughout most mozilla-related projects such as firefox and thunderbird. The fact that users of the application only need to have firefox to access xul applications is very appealing.

I have some issues with XUL::Node, however. An api that is more explicitly tree-like (e.g. $parent->add_child( $widget )) would seem more consistent than the current, somewhat cluttered, interface. More serious for what I would like to use XUL::Node for is that it doesn't yet implement the xul tree widget. Finally, the install is fairly heavy, (including POE).

All in all, though, a great package. I would love to see this developed further.

rvosa - 2006-09-21 02:12:08
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Bio-NEXUS (0.67)

Bio::NEXUS is currently the most advanced parser of (phylogenetic) nexus files on cpan.

rvosa - 2006-09-20 16:47:13
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Bio-Phylo (0.14)

I am the author of Bio::Phylo. Thank you for your interest! Bio::Phylo is under active development. I hope you will find it useful for parsing, visualizing and transforming phylogenetic data. In the near future, this module will be part of the perl bindings for the CIPRES project (http://www.phylo.org), will integrate (more) tightly with bioperl (http://www.bioperl.org) and will become fully compatible with Bio::NEXUS, also here on CPAN. The upshot is that the module's API and class architecture is likely to undergo backward compatibility-breaking change in the coming releases. My apologies, but this is necessary.

rvosa - 2006-09-16 00:32:39
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Wx-Perl-Packager (0.03)

This is a useful module that aids in bundling dlls/dylibs for distributing. It does this by calling 'pp', the PAR packer utility with modified arguments to link in the shared wx libraries. One complaint I have is that its dependence on PAR is not picked up by the cpan installer, and because it calls pp using exec you get silent failures.

rvosa - 2006-08-31 13:51:41
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Bundle-Tk (1.00)

Bundles are useful. A bundle is particular type of cpan distribution that doesn't, itself, contain any library code. Rather, it specifies what modules to install (and in what order). You want this in order to resolve dependency issues in modules with complicated prerequisites, such as, in this case, Tk.

(I have no experience with this particular bundle, I just vote here to average out the earlier downvote based on ignorance.)

rvosa - 2006-08-26 01:36:01
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Module-Dependency (1.86)

This is a very handy module. Stable, easy to use. I use it to generate bundles from a source tree (with PAR). My only gripe would be the long namespaces, e.g. Module::Dependency::Indexer::makeIndex. Not sure if I can import makeIndex, so maybe the documentation is a bit ambiguous too. Overall a great module, though.

rvosa - 2006-08-26 01:30:37
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