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 [...]
Beginning with Perl 5, version 12, the Perl 5 language began an annual release cycle, with a new stable release around May of each year. Beginning with version 14, the Perl 5 maintainers also announced a formal support policy and ended support for version 10. This is a significant change from the history of Perl, [...]
Schwern just posted "How (not) To Load a Module..." that goes into great depth about the security risk in loading modules. The (not) funny thing is that none of what he's saying is a risk would be one when running in taint mode. Consider "/tmp/foo.pm" with this: Then consider this example of how Module::Load does [...]
Path::Class::Rule is what you get when you imagine the love-child of Path::Class and File::Find::Rule. Here is part of the SYNOPSIS: As you can see, it has the same method-chaining of rule helpers that File::Find::Rule does. However, it's not built on top of File::Find, so you get a real, lazy iterator instead of the File::Find::Rule iterator [...]
Ricardo wrote an article "promoting little gifts", which @perlbuzz tweeted as "giving little gifts as thanks". I like that idea, and it inspired me to remind people to please also consider just giving "thanks", too. Sure, I'd love a song or a small ebook (and maybe I should set up a wishlist), but I also [...]
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