NAME

Acme::CPANModules::PERLANCAR::Avoided - Modules I'm currently avoiding

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of Acme::CPANModules::PERLANCAR::Avoided (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModulesBundle-PERLANCAR), released on 2018-01-09.

DESCRIPTION

Modules I'm currently avoiding.

This is a list of modules I'm currently avoiding to use in my code, for some reason. Most of the modules wered used in my code in the past.

Using a Dist::Zilla plugin Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Acme::CPANModules::Blacklist, you can make sure that during building, your distribution does not specify a prerequisite to any of the modules listed here. (You should make your own blacklist though).

INCLUDED MODULES

• Log::Any - Startup overhead

  After the 1.x version, I no longer prefer Log::Any and have developed an alternative called Log::ger.

  Alternate modules: Log::ger

• List::MoreUtils - License confusion and

  For more information, see https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/6ymdez/what_are_the_background_details_pertaining_to_the/.

  Recent versions of List::Util have implemented many functions from List::MoreUtils.

  Alternate modules: List::Util, List::SomeUtils, List::AllUtils

• Log::Any::IfLOG - Retired workaround

  Alternate modules: Log::ger

• File::Flock - Too many deps

  I used to use File::Flock due to its simple interface. However, this module depends on things like AnyEvent, Data::Structure::Util, File::Slurp, et al, all of which seem unnecessary. Nowadays I'm opting to use File::Flock::Retry, or just plain flock().

  Alternate modules: File::Flock::Retry

• File::Slurp - Buggy

  Alternate modules: File::Slurper

• File::Slurp::Tiny - Use the newer File::Slurper instead

  Alternate modules: File::Slurper

• Exporter::Lite - Unnecessary, use Exporter instead

  I used to use this module because I didn't know that Exporter (since perl 5.8.3, 2004) can also be used without subclassing, i.e. instead of:

   use Exporter;
   our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
   our @EXPORT = (...);

  you can also use it like this:

   use Exporter qw(import);
   our @EXPORT = (...);

  Hence, this module (first released in 2001) is no longer necessary. Besides, this module has a worse startup overhead than Exporter and has less features. So there is absolutely no reason to use it.

  Alternate modules: Exporter

• JSON - Somewhat broken

  JSON.pm is a discouraged module now, due to its somewhat broken backend handling and lack of support for Cpanel::JSON::XS. consider switching to JSON::MaybeXS or perhaps just JSON::PP.

  Alternate modules: JSON::MaybeXS, JSON::PP, Cpanel::JSON::XS

• JSON::XS

  Cpanel::JSON::XS is the fork of JSON::XS that fixes some bugs and adds some features, mainly so it's more compatible with JSON::PP. See the documentation of Cpanel::JSON::XS for more details on those.

  Alternate modules: Cpanel::JSON::XS

• Module::Path

  It's a nice little concept and module, and often useful. But the decision like defaulting to doing abs_path() (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=100979), which complicates the module, makes its behavior different than Perl's require(), as well as opens the can of worms of ugly filesytem details, has prompted me to release an alternative. Module::Path::More also has the options to find .pod and/or .pmc file, and find all matches instead of the first.

  Alternate modules: Module::Path::More

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Acme-CPANModulesBundle-PERLANCAR.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Acme-CPANModulesBundle-PERLANCAR.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Acme-CPANModulesBundle-PERLANCAR

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Acme::CPANModules - about the Acme::CPANModules namespace

cpanmodules - CLI tool to let you browse/view the lists

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.