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Issue #86 - 2013-03-18 - Tasty, not Testy, Testing
latest | archive | edited by Yanick Champoux
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This week it is Yanick again, I just added a few of the Perl Maven entries, but let's see what Yanick Champoux has to share: On the menu this week: minor releases of perl to address the rehashing flaw recently discovered. Plus a few articles dealing with tests; how to manage them efficiently, and how work around those that cause us grief. Yanick Champoux |
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Announcements
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New releases addressing the recently discovered rehashing flaw. |
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Strawberry Perl echoes the core mothership and releases two new versions addressing the rehashing flaw. |
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by Andy Lester (PETDANCE) Andy Lester doesn't have the time required to work on perl101.org, and need somebody to take on the torch. Could that be you? | 
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Oh dearie me, you wanted to submit a talk for YAPC::NA, but forgot about the deadline? You're in luck: the staff kinda did the same. Clear outcome: the deadline is extended till the end of the month. |
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PrePAN, a platform available to discuss new Perl module ideas, is now AWS hosted, and in a move that promise synergic goodness, their team has joined the MetaCPAN team. |
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The Perl News, Leo Lapworth let us know, is looking for stories, events, milestones pertaining to Perl. Have something to share, hop on IRC and tell them your stories. |
Articles
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The last release of cpanm added the version of the running perl to cpanm's user-agent signature. miyagawa compiled the results for our pie-viewing pleasure. |
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Did you know that you can upgrade your perl via perlbrew without having to reinstall all of your libraries? If not, chromatic will show you how. |
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Several activities streams converge in Oylenshpeegul's entry, in which the discussion about improving CPAN/Github interaction, the newest cpanm features, and a bug in Config::Simple all crash together. |
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Perl5i is an experimental fork of perl spearheaded by Schwern where features long-desired but problematic, usualy because of the need for backward-compatibility, are gleefully injected in the language. Intrigued? With this new quickstart guide, it is now much easier for you to experience this alternate-reality perl first-hand... |
Testing
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by Joel Berger (JBERGER) Joel Berger professes his love for the ever-vigilant CPANtesters, as well as for a (relative) newcomer in the Open Source testing scene, Travis-CI, and narrates how they both helping him troubleshoot his spiffy Galileo CMS project. | 
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) You have so many tests associated with your perl code that it's becoming a problem to wade through it in search of a specific testcase? Oh, how do I envy you. But still, Ovid proposes a standard (with heplful vim scripts) to make things as neat and as organized as possible. | 
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Some authors bundle POD tests in their distribution, which has little value to the end-user. David Golden got tired of those, and introduces a new test harness that transparently skip those pesky tests. | 
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Just like Moose can tremendously simplify your OO classes, Test:::Class::Moose can do wonders for your test suites. Ovid shows us how it can leverage inheritance and roles to great advantages. |
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Code
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) Never underestimate the power of a well-placed "thank you". David Golden shows how one can easily, and automatically, give credit to everyone who contribute to a distribution, with a little bit of Dist::Zilla help. |
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Toby Inkster proposes a new way to declare that a module would only run on certain platforms. |
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) How do you know when a CORE module is deprecated? brian d foy tells you where to look to figure it out. | 
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Ben Bullock announces a new version of Text::Fuzzy, a module that has nothing to do with ursine muppets, and eveverything with dealing with text written by humans, and thus subject to msitakes. |
Perl 6
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The monthly release of Rakudo Star - the Perl 6 distributions that includes the Perl 6 compiler, the Parrot VM and a bunch of Perl 6 modules, is also distributed in MSI formate. This is how you can try it. |
Weekly collections
Perl Tutorial
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Thanks to Felipe Leprevost there is the beginning of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Perl Maven site. |
Events
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