Tag Archives: perl

Paying respect to Module::Build

By dagolden | Published: May 28, 2013

Earlier this week, I proposed that Module::Build be deprecated from the Perl 5 core. After some discussion, this proposal has been accepted by the Pumpking. I want to take a moment to discuss what this means, why I suggested it, and what I think Module::Build trail blazed for Perl 5. Deprecation means a warning in [...]

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How I manage new perls with perlbrew

By dagolden | Published: May 20, 2013

Perl v5.19.0 was released this morning and I already have it installed as my default perl. This post explains how I do it. First, I manage my perls with perlbrew. I install that, then use it to install some tools I need globally available: You must install cpanm with perlbrew -- if you don't, weird [...]

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Anyone want vanillaperl.com?

By dagolden | Published: May 16, 2013

I'm tired of paying the domain bill for vanillaperl.com (which currently just redirects to strawberryperl.com). It will lapse at the beginning of July unless someone wants to take it. If you're interested, leave a comment below and explain what you want to do with it. I'll award it to the best proposal received by June [...]

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Why the latest File::Temp might surprise you

By dagolden | Published: April 23, 2013

There was a subtle API change in File::Temp 0.23 that improves consistency, but might break old, buggy code. Prior to 0.23, here was the calling signature for the functional and object oriented interfaces for File::Temp (with some creative spacing to show the problem): Notice how new() doesn't take a template argument. Instead, you're supposed to [...]

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The Annotated Lancaster Consensus

By dagolden | Published: April 19, 2013

The official Lancaster Consensus document is on Github. This blog post is an annotated review of it. The Lancaster Consensus At the first Perl QA Hackathon in 2008 in Oslo, a number of QA and toolchain authors, maintainers and experts came together to agree on some common standards and practices. This became known as "The [...]

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