My last post showed historical Perl 5 release cycles, but comments I got on and off the blog suggested that my vaguely positive sentiments about the official support policy were misunderstood. This post expands and clarifies my view. I have redone my Perl 5 release cycle graph again with a few changes. First, for the [...]
I've been using Test::More for so long that I sometimes forget about new features that have been added in the last couple years. If you're like me and would like a refresher, here's a list of five useful features that you might want to start using. Unless otherwise noted, you will need at least version [...]
If you work with git, eventually you will want to script something that git doesn't do already and can't be accomplished with an alias. If you use Perl, the Git::Wrapper module makes scripting git easy. The big advantage of Git::Wrapper is that it wraps the binary version of git, which keeps your perl and git [...]
Andy just asked "What are you working on in Perl?" but rather than reply in a comment, I thought it would be a good Ironman post of my own, so here we go: CPAN Meta Spec version 2 -- I released the final spec and will soon be looking to rally toolchain developers to implement [...]
The Perl community seems abuzz about the cool new cpanminus client by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa. After about two weeks of development, this is a reasonably functional CPAN client with just a fraction of the overhead, complexity and verbosity of the CPAN and CPANPLUS clients that come with the Perl core. It's a remarkable achievement, not only [...]
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