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How to script git with perl and Git::Wrapper

By dagolden | Published: August 30, 2010
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 [...]
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What I'm working on in Perl

By dagolden | Published: April 28, 2010
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 [...]
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The power of not being all things to all people

By dagolden | Published: March 2, 2010
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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Good, fast or cheap -- pick again

By dagolden | Published: December 28, 2009
I'm not sure when exactly I started thinking about new infrastructure for CPAN Testers, but it might have been a couple years ago around the time I released CPAN::Reporter 1.0. That was when I decided that Net::SMTP needed to be the default "transport" option, to avoid problems people were already having with local report submission [...]
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