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Perl Cache 1.05
May 26th, 2006 by DeWitt Clinton

I pushed out a new version of the venerable Cache::Cache module to CPAN and SourceForge. It may take an hour or two for the files to propagate to the mirrors. Just a few minor bugfixes in version 1.05, nothing to worry about if it already works for you.

I wrote the original module some six years ago. And from what I can tell it still has a huge install base in the Perl web app community. If I had to guess, I’d say that 10’s or 100’s of millions of web requests go through that code each day.

People have suggested rewriting it from scratch to make improvements — occasionally I even try to help those efforts out. But in the end the original version just seems to live on and on and on…

Maybe I’ll do a total rewrite myself when Perl 6 comes out.

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2 Responses to “Perl Cache 1.05”

  1. Randal L. Schwartz Says:
    May 28th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Yes, thank you very much for your effort. I’ve used Cache::* in a number of places, and even written a few magazine articles that made use of it.

  2. DeWitt Clinton Says:
    May 28th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

    Thanks, Randal. Coming from you that’s no small compliment. I think I landed a bug fix for you in this release, too.