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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:45:33 EDT, Michael G Schwern wrote: >The following modules are being distributed with 5.005_62 and are out >of date with respect to CPAN, some seriously so. > Module Distrib Latest > CGI 2.53 2.56 > Devel::Peek 0.95 0.96 > File::Spec::Mac undef 1.0 (None of File::Spec::* has a versi >on #) > Pod::Text 1.01 2.03 (This might be conflicting > with podlators) > Test 1.13 1.14 > Text::Soundex undef 2.20 (Holy crap, this is from 1994!) > Text::Tabs 96.12120 98.11280 (December 1996? >) > Tie::Handle undef 3.0 I'd appreciate a note from the respective authors whenever they think their module(s) should be upgraded to a newer version. I typically *don't* upgrade to a module as soon as I become aware of a newer version--past experience says waiting a while is a better heuristic for upgrading things in the core. >Others may be out of date due to a lack of $VERSION, (I suspect >File::Spec is) > >I'd say that Text::Soundex should -definately- be upgraded. The >version we're distributing is well over five years old and the new >version is written in C and should be significantly faster. Old is not necessarily bad. No XS is sometimes better (fewer bugs and build complications). In the case of Text::Soundex, has someone benchmarked the old vs new to see how much better the XSUB implementation is? Is it worth it? Sarathy gsar@activestate.comThread Previous | Thread Next