Leo Lapworth

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 2 now available for testing

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May 042011
 

The second release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 is available for download from CPAN.

Since RC1:

  • Fixed a regression related to Unicode and character classes reported by George Greer
  • Muzzled several tests that hang on a variety of platforms
  • Fixed a typo that caused build problems with the vendor compiler on Solaris x86_64
  • Documented several new features that had previously been undocumented

While Perl5-Porters go to great lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don’t break existing programs, it does happen. It’s really, really important that all unintentional breakages are caught before the final release of Perl 5.14.0.

As always, don’t get rid of your old perl before you know your stuff works with the new one.

If no “showstopper” class bugs are found in the next 7 days, Perl5-Porters will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Wednesday, May 11.

 Posted by at 19:57

Google accepts six summer Perl Projects

 Google Summer of Code  1 Response »
Apr 262011
 

The 2011 Google Summer of Code accepted six of the students from The Perl Foundation:

  1. André Walker – Rework Catalyst component setup code
    Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim
  2. Brian Neil Fraser – Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean
    Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram
  3. Carlos Ivan Sosa – Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script with a module
    Mentored by Sawyer X and Franck Cuny
  4. Marc Green – Standardization of core documentation parsing tools
    Mentored by Ricardo Signes and David E. Wheeler
  5. Moritz Onken – CPAN search for the modern web
    Mentored by Clinton Gormley and Olaf Alders
  6. Tadeusz Sośnierz – Pod parser for Rakudo
    Mentored by Moritz Lenz and Carl Mäsak

Each student is paired with at least one mentor in the Perl community who oversees and guides the project through the summer.

 Posted by at 08:12

2011 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Call for Presentations

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Apr 232011
 

Presenters are wanted for the 5th Annual Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, to be held at the Carnegie Mellon University on October 8 and 9, 2011. The call for presentations is now open (closes on Wednesday, May 18th).

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop was established in 2006 as a low-cost technical conference for users of the Perl Programming Language. The conference emphasizes real code and immediate, pratical solutions to common issues.

 Posted by at 07:25

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1 now available for testing

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Apr 212011
 

The first release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 is available for download from CPAN.

While Perl5-Porters go to great lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don’t break existing programs, it does happen. It’s really, really important that all unintentional breakages are caught before the final release of Perl 5.14.0.

It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software written in Perl which you use or maintain. As always, don’t get rid of your old perl before you know your stuff works with the new one.

If no “showstopper” class bugs are found in the next 7 days, Perl5-Porters will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Thursday, April 28, 2011.

 Posted by at 12:37

Mojolicious: Emergency release, please upgrade!

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Apr 152011
 

The Mojolicious team have released version 1.16 which fixes a serious security vulnerability.

You are advised to upgrade immediately.

 Posted by at 12:43

11 Million CPAN Test Reports

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Apr 112011
 

CPAN Testers have confirmed that over 11 million CPAN test reports have now been processed.

CPAN Testers has been running since 1998 – hundreds of testers automatically test every module uploaded to CPAN, across dozens of platforms and releases of Perl.

 Posted by at 20:01

2011 Google summer of code signup ends 8th April

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Apr 022011
 

This years Google Summer of Code deadline is this week, Friday 8th April to be precise. Become a Perl student or Perl mentor now.

 Posted by at 18:58

Syntax highlighting on search.cpan.org

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Mar 252011
 

Syntax highlighting is now available on search.cpan.org (choose your preferred style from the drop down at the bottom of the page, this is remembered for future visits).

Read more in Mark’s Post

 Posted by at 13:32

CPAN.org moves to Perl NOC, gets a facelift

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Mar 202011
 

CPAN.org, which ran faithfully on FUNET since 1993, has had a long-awaited redesign since it moved its main mirror and website to Perl NOC. This is the start of a big a cleanup for the website on the primary CPAN repository to not only make it more visually appealing, but more useful to the Perl community. This moves gives the community much more control over the workings and relieves the long time CPAN Master Librarian, Jarkko Hietaniemi, a much deserved and long-accrued vacation.

If you’d like to participate, you can fork the cpanorg Github repository then send pull requests.

 Posted by at 09:14

New Perl news site launches

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Mar 172011
 

http://perlnews.org/ has just launched and will be providing a source for major announcements related to The Perl Programming Language (http://www.perl.org/). Find out more at http://perlnews.org/about/ – or if you have a story submit it http://perlnews.org/submit/.

All stories are approved to ensure relevance.

Thanks

The Perl News Team.

 Posted by at 13:30
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