Perl Weekly
Issue #304 - 2017-05-22 - That was the toolchain summit that was!
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The Perl Toolchain Summit ended last Sunday, and through this week the
attendees have been blogging about what they did there.
There's a lot to read, but hopefully it will illustrate why this is
such a valued event.
There's also plenty of conference news; the season is almost upon us!
Neil
Neil Bowers
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CPAN News
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ActiveState announced that going forward they'll focus on supporting regular CPAN tools for installing modules, rather than focussing on their own Perl Package Manager.
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Perl 5
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by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)
The first release candidate for Perl 5.26 was released at the toolchain summit. Dot in @INC is still a topic.
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Perl 6
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)
Liz's weekly round-up of Perl 6 news, which includes the Perl 6 happenings at toolchain summit.
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Toolchain Summit
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)
Olaf's report on how he spent the toolchain, hacking on a range of things related to MetaCPAN. Be sure to read all the way to the end, including the slightly scary story of things leaking from his plane!
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by Todd Rinaldo
One of the discussions at the summit was on the change in 5.26 where '.' (the current directory) is being dropped from @INC . These are Todd's notes from that discussion.
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by Leo Lapworth (LLAP)
Leo is the sysadmin for the MetaCPAN project, so a lot of his todo list related to the infrastructure, and also helped a few people get setup with the developer VM for MetaCPAN.
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by Doug Bell (PREACTION)
Doug is the project lead for CPAN Testers, so unsurprisingly that was his focus during the summit. His main task a new API for uploading test reports.
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by Tina Müller (TINITA)
Two reports for the price of one! Before the toolchain summit, Tina and Ingy had a YAML summit in Berlin. At the toolchain summit Tina worked with Ingy on the YAML module, and other YAML tools.
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)
One of the problems with CPAN is releases that don't have a META.yml or META.json file. We want to try and fix these, particularly those that are used by other CPAN distributions.
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Conferences
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by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY)
Dave will be offering his Introduction to Moose class at the perl conference again this year.
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The Swiss Perl workshop is on the 25th and 25th of August, and Damian Conway will be attending this year (Damian blogged about this too!).
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The Perl Conference runs from the 19th June through the 21st, with a day of tutorials before, and two days of tutorials afterwards.
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The Madrid Perl workshop is on June 3rd.
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July 01, 2017, LINE Fukuoka株式会社, Hakata-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Crowd funding
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)
Crowd funding for a book about Web Application Development in Perl 6
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