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Config::General is widely used all over the world. Here are some examples:

• gmmusic is a music collection management system written in perl which uses Config::General to store its configuration.

• the module is recommended on various mailinglists.

• Symposium, a talk tool uses Config::General for storing its config too.

• photopub, a image publication software written in perl.

• Config::General is listed on the P5EE (Perl 5 Enterprise Environment) Component List.

• The FAQ for the polish perl newsgroup pl.comp.lang.perl recommends Config::General for config file parsing: FAQ (13.15.).

• The latest version (CVS version) of the W3C Markup Validator uses Config::General for parsing its config files.

• Limacute is a web interface for mailserver configuration and uses Config::General as config file parsing backend (via Limacute::Config::File).

• The LVS kiss project uses Config::General for config file parsing.

• psmon is a security tool which monitors processes similar to the build-in process monitor module in nabou.

• The penguin greetings(ecard engine) is using Config::General.

• And a funny mention on the mailing list of MDLUG(Metro Detroit Linux Users Group): perl rocks :-)

• nabou, a host intrusion detection system written in perl uses Config::General for its complicated configuration. nabou is the "parent" project of Config::General, which has been outsourced sometime ago of nabou.

Config::General is also in use by other perl modules:

• POEST perl SMTP server using Config::General in POEST::Config::General.

• Data::Serializer has several backends, one of them is Config::General, accessible via Data::Serializer::Config::General.

• The PerlMx::Samples::BlackList module implements a SPAM filter and requires Config::General.

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