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February 13, 2013 18:00
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Re: Keeping track of used modules (Was: Perl 7 or Perl 2013?)
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Johan Vromans wrote:
> Greg Lindahl <greg@blekko.com> writes:
> 
>> I would love to have something that I could wire into my build system
>> that would report, every few weeks, all the CPAN modules that I use,
> 
> The best tool for this is perl itself. We would need a very light-weight
> way to store some usage data upon termination. A shared memory file,
> maybe?
> 
> -- Johan

FWIW AS's PPM site http://code.activestate.com/ppm/search:/ has download 
counts. They mean something. I dont know how "real world" they are 
though (did someone push a AS PPM module to 200 desktops with Active 
Directory? so thats 200 downloads, but only 1 user).
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