4 posts tagged “cpan”
As Nicholas pointed out on the front page of use.perl.org, Perl 5.8.9 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded to CPAN. It contains a whole bunch of changes since Perl 5.8.8. We have tested it on our machines. We have tested it on build farms. We have tested it with as much of CPAN as we could. What we haven't tested it with is the DARKPAN: your code, your computer and servers, your work code, or any of your modules. Blame Transfer Protocol initiated, as Nicholas points out slightly more informally on the London.pm mailing list: we would be very generous indeed if you could test the release candidate all code that you have to hand, and especially with work code. Think of it as your civic duty, if you lived in the city of Perl.
... is what I say in the new, unreleased version of Net::Amazon::S3. I've moved it to Moose and I've added the new Net::Amazon::S3::Client classes to make it really easy to do the things you most want to do with S3. I need input on the new classes - does it do what you need it to do? If you use the module already for a task, could you look at the new classes and give me feedback? The code is hosted by Google Code, so you can check it out and see all my recent hacking. Cheers!
I was going to write about how I have come to love Moose, but I can't really beat how John Napiorkowski explained it on the perl-appengine list: "Without Moose, I'd probably have lost the faith and left Perl for another language..."
search.cpan.org is a pretty useful website for searching CPAN. Unfortunately sometimes I am not online. Sometimes I am online but have very spotty access. You can't run search.cpan.org locally as it is closed-source. I've been annoyed about this in the past, errr, seven years now, but haven't quite figured out the proper solution. Now I have: let me announce to the world CPAN::Mini::Webserver.
You must create a minicpan with CPAN::Mini. Then install the module and simply run minicpan_webserver. This finds out where your minicpan lies, reads some indexes from it, and starts a web server. Through the web interface you can search for authors, distributions and packages, browse distributions by author, browse files in a distribution, see the documentation of any file and see syntax-highlighted Perl code. All while offline. Try it out now!
It works well enough, but I have some more plans. Let's have a BoF about it at YAPC::Europe in Copenhagen. Tell me what you think, Léon.
