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- pmtools-1.10 Release
Now at a CPAN mirror site near you — pmtools-1.10. Tom "spot" Callaway of Fedora Core let me know that the Fedora folks were concerned about the fact that pmtools was only licensed under the Perl 5 Artistic License (they were concerned about how well the Artistic License 1.0 would stand up in court). So, pmtools (starting with v1.10) is now dual-licensed like Perl (Artistic and GPL). (My other public Perl stuff is also dual-licensed.) I also added my copyright to pmtools, as I had not added my name to the copyright when I took it over. Off-hand, I don't recall why Tom Christiansen used only the Artistic License for pmtools. Anyone with a clue, please drop me a line. (That of course includes you, Tom.)Read more of this story at use Perl.
- Vanilla Perl Build 15 - Loads of new toys
http://ali.as/download/vanilla-perl-5.10.0-build-15.exe (14.4 MB) I'm happy to (FINALLY) release the new Vanilla Perl build 15. Vanilla Perl is the experimental Win32 Perl distribution with the mandate to do the absolute minimum amount of changes to the Perl core to get various features working. This latest experimental release contains most of the new tricks that will be in the upcoming April Strawberry Perl, and probably the biggest number of new features yet in a Vanilla release. XML::Parser This release comes with Expat and XML::Parser built in (since I still can't make XML::Parser install from CPAN itself and you can't upgrade it). So it should be possible to build a range of other stuff on top of it now (like PPM support, which is out of the scope of Vanilla). Win32::API Although it probably won't stay in Vanilla beyond this release, I've bundled in Win32::API out of the box. With Win32::API also comes (be necessity) with libwin32 bundled in as well (which is by far the biggest install from cpan.strawberryperl.com). With those two installed, most of the rest of the Win32:: family should install relatively easily. Relocation This release contains experimental patches for all three configuration files that contain hard-coded paths to make them capable or handling the Perl installation being shoved around. This should also be the first release usable for people interested in creating Portable Perl type distributions for flash drives, etc. Of course, this is still an .exe installer (which Portable Perl people don't want, cause it dumps crap into the registry). This particular feature WON'T be in Strawberry Perl, but it involved adding some extra capabilities in regards to tweaking installs. libwwwperl aka LWP Because I refuse to use FTP CPAN mirrors any more (HTTP being infinitely superior in every way) Vanilla now comes with LWP out of the box. This also means that the built in CPAN mirrors can be used now, intead of it falling back on the horrible FTP defaults. Righto then... So, with Vanilla 15 working, time to move on to getting a Strawberry Beta.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- YAPC::NA 2008 CFP Deadline Quickly Approaching
The CFP for YAPC::NA 2008 officially ends on March 15th, so get your submissions in soon. Though we actually have had an amazing number of pre-deadline submissions (typically the last few days are when the floodgates open), we could still use some more. There are spots open for talks ranging from 20 minute overviews to longer 90 minute sessions. This year, we are also doing hands-on workshops in the conference center computer lab. Any projects that want to try to recruit some new hackers should sign up for hosting one of these informal learning sessions.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- Perl-IL Meeting on 16 March 2008
The Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their first meeting for this year on Sunday, 16 March, 2008at 18:30, in Screiber 008 in Tel Aviv University. The meeting agenda is not final, but includes a presentation by Ran Eilam on "Config::* - The Alenby St. of CPAN", and a fallback "There are too many ways to do it" presentation.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- LA.pm Meeting @ Pricegrabber, Tue March 18th 7PM
naterajj writes "A few months back, LA.pm conducted a survey amongst its members to collect a list topics to have at future meetings, this month's meeting covers one of them. Thomas MacNeil, Director of Technology Operations at Pricegrabber will be giving a presentation about Module Writing, including concepts and examples of: packages, namespaces, symbol tables, and conventions. Parking, pizza and beverages will be provided by Pricegrabber. Please visit LA.pm for details"Read more of this story at use Perl.
- Who will take over perl101.org?
Who out there has some free time and is interested in helping out beginners? My little project for Perl beginners, Perl101.org, has been largely ignored lately. My idea was to have a cookbooky style set of pages that beginners could read for things like the right way to get a count of elements in an array, or how to extract links from a web page without using a regular expression. It started out pretty nicely, but has lain fallow for months now. I'd like it if someone could take it over. I'll hand over the domain name and the Google Code project for the site, and you'll keep this going and make it something more useful. If you want to overhaul how it works, or keep the same system going, it doesn't matter to me. All I require is that you'll do something useful for the beginners. Any interest?Read more of this story at use Perl.
- This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008
This Week on perl5-porters - 24-29 February 2008 "Is this a bug? Or why is this the expected behaviour?" -- Steffen Ullrich, playing with signal handlers.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- Perl @ Flourish
The organizers of Flourish are of course looking for attendees for their conference, but they are also looking for something else... top-notch Perl web developers. They are having a web programming showdown using a variety of languages and frameworks. Perl is on the list, but is currently under-represented. They are looking to invite the best-of-the-best in each language, preferably people who are noted contributors to the particular language or platform that they'll be developing in. Because of this demanding criteria, they are willing to talk about helping out with travel, etc. Please contact me, Josh McAdams (joshua dot mcadams at gmail dot com) if you are interested.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- Patch for Dreamhost
As threatened earlier, I've written up a patch to fix Cwd.pm in perl so it will build in a Dreamhost account. Now you can upgrade to 5.8.8. The issue is that Perl's own version of abs_path() didn't know how to deal with a parent directory it didn't have read permissions on. On Dreamhost, you can't read /home. The patch will eventually go into PathTools.Read more of this story at use Perl.
- TPF Needs You: Nominations Open for Several TPF Roles
Have you ever wanted to get involved in The Perl Foundation, but didn't know how? Well, now's your chance. I'm pleased to announce open self-nominations for the following TPF roles: Steering Committee Chair Conferences Committee Chair Public Relations You can follow the links above to read descriptions of each of the positions. If you think you're a good fit for one or more of them, send me an email at cbrandt at perlfoundation dot org. I'll then invite you to a dedicated wiki we have set up just for the election. Once you join the wiki, you'll set up a page to post all of your experience and answer the questions provided in each section above. The wiki is private, but you'll be able to see the other candidate pages, and they'll see yours. The deadline to get all of your information in is midnight next Tuesday, March 11. Our committees elect their members, so the Conferences Committee will be voting on the CC chair and the Steering Committee will vote on the chair and PR positions. After we have a chance to look over everyone's information, we vote and select our newest members. You only have a week, so don't wait too long. I look forward to hearing from you. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/03/tpf_needs_you_nominations_open.htmlRead more of this story at use Perl.
