One recurring problem in modules that use Scalar::Util's weaken function is
that it is not present in the pure-perl variant.
While this isn't necessarily always a problem in a straight CPAN-based Perl
environment, some operating system distributions only include the pure-Perl
versions, don't include the XS version, and so weaken is then "missing" from
the platform, despite passing a dependency on Scalar::Util successfully.
Most notably this is RedHat Linux at time of writing, but other come and go
and do the same thing, hence "recurring problem".
The normal solution is to manually write tests in each distribution to ensure
that weaken is available.
This restores the functionality testing to a dependency you do once in your
Makefile.PL, rather than something you have to write extra tests for each
time you write a module.
It should also help make the package auto-generators for the various
operating systems play more nicely, because it introduces a dependency that
they have to have a proper weaken in order to work.
mysqlbackup: create MySQL-database servers backup easy
Why mysqlbackup?
1. Requires minimum coding to create everyday MySQL-backups with some
additional functions.
2. Backups can be compressed on-the-fly and automatically rotated after
specified number of a days past.
3. "Slave mode" feature - stop slave, save it's status and then create backup.
Start slave afterwards.
4. Includes basic database maintenance: check, optimize tables before backup
creation.
5. It can be safely used on a large MySQL installations (1000+ databases).
6. It is written in sh - code interpreter available in a base system.
This is a line editing library. It can be linked into almost any program to
provide command-line editing and history. It is call-compatible with the FSF
readline library, but is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features).
The editline library was created by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz back in 1992.
At the time they chose to distribute the code under a "C News-like" copyright,
see the file LICENSE for details.
The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (no ncurses needed!) and the free
license should make this library interesting to many embedded developers
This module associates a PID file with your script for the purpose
of keeping more than one copy from running (concurrency prevention).
It creates the PID file, checks for its existence when the script
is run, terminates the script if there is already an instance running,
and removes the PID file when the script finishes.
This module's objective is to provide a completely simplified
interface that makes adding PID-file-based concurrency prevention
to your script as quick and simple as possible; hence File::Pid::Quick.
For a more nuanced implementation of PID files, please see File::Pid.
Tumble is a utility to construct PDF files from one or more image
files. Supported input image file formats are JPEG, and black and
white TIFF (single- or multi-page). Black and white images will be
encoded in the PDF output using lossless Group 4 fax compression
(ITU-T recommendation T.6). This provides a very good compression
ratio for text and line art. JPEG images will be preserved with the
original coding.
The current version of Tumble will only work on little-endian systems,
such as x86, VAX, and Alpha. The byte order dependencies will be fixed
in a later release.
Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Spread Concepts LLC. All rights reserved.
This product uses software developed by Spread Concepts LLC for use in the
Spread toolkit. For more information about Spread see http://www.spread.org/
Spread is a toolkit and daemon that provide multicast and group communications
support to applications across local and wide area networks. Spread is designed
to make it easy to write groupware, networked multimedia, reliable server, and
collaborative work applications.
Spread consists of a library that user applications are linked with, a binary
daemon which runs on each computer that is part of the processor group, and
various utility and demonstration programs.
SKS OpenPGP Key Server
SKS is a new OpenPGP keyserver whose goal is to provide easy to deploy,
decentralized, and highly reliable synchronization. That means that a
key submitted to one SKS server will quickly be distributed to all key
servers; and even wildly out-of-date servers, or servers that experience
spotty connectivity, can fully synchronize with rest of the system.
Refer to the online references for pointers on downloading a full copy of
the public PGP databse (about 2Gb) and on tweaking the your configuration.
http://www.keysigning.org/sks/ may help you getting started.
LinkCheck is a free software package that checks a web site for bad links.
Features
Understands HTML 3.0
Understands Frames
Understands JavaScript
Fast and lean, written in C. Source code is free
Can check a whole web site
Can be restricted to subdirectory checks
Estimates download times for each page and flags slow pages
Validates and reports temporarily moved pages and checks the new location
Reports server types
Reports html files last modification time
Validates mailto hrefs for valid DNS MX record on the internet
Validates ftp/file hrefs by getting actual file via ftp protocol
Reports news:, telnet:, wais:, gopher, powwow: urls
Automatically walks the entire web site tree
A packet sniffer designed to run as a daemon with automatic log rotation.
It will also act as a software tap injecting packets onto a second
interface if configured as such.
deb2targz is a very small shell script for converting Debian Linux .deb packages
to a .tar.gz.