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Issue #491 - 2020-12-21 - Both CPAN RT and the CPAN mirrors are shutting down
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Hi there, Two weeks ago it was announced that rt.cpan.org will sunset on March 1st, 2021. I recorded a video about it. There was a Reddit discussion about it with a few inappropriate comments. Then Dave Cross wrote an Action Plan for CPAN Authors and got some useful comments. I am personally disappointed that no discussion, or public call for help preceded this decision, but I think moving to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket issues can benefit the projects. Later Dave Cross came up with an interesting solution. Using gitpan to replace CPAN RT. In another news the CPAN mirror network is shutting down.
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Statistics
In this section we show some collected stats. Let's figure out which numbers could be interesting. The scripts are in the bin directory of the Perl Weekly Git repository.
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Last week there were a total of 232 uploads to CPAN of 133 distinct distributions by 70 different authors. Number of distributions with link to VCS: 110. Number of distros with CI: 58. Number of distros with bugtracker: 88. |
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Number of posts last week: BPO: 3; DevTo: 2; Perl.com: 0; PerlAcademy: 1; PerlHacks: 1; PerlMaven: 1; Reddit: 20; TPF: 0; |
Community
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by Dmitry Karasik It saddens me to see Dmitry Karasik getting so frustrated. He is such a nice and well-meaning person and a very professional programmer. |
Articles
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave had a very nice idea to replace the default CPAN RT with the GitHub issues of Gitpan. At least for the modules that don't set their bug-tracking system explicitly. A few interesting comments on Reddit. | 
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) See also the discussion on Reddit including a short explanation on how a CDN works. | 
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by Ben Bullock (BKB) As Toby Inkster commented: "Python: Let's make whitespace characters syntactically signicifant. Perl: Hold my beer and watch this!" |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Addressing Conway's Game of Life with a different approach for a multidimensional infinite space. |
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Perl 7
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) A poll I am running on my LinkedIn page. There are already over 40 votes. I would like to know how you plan to extend your knowledge. Interesting there were some people who commented Perl 5 which is interesting, it seems to indicate some people are not interested in enhancing their toolset. Maybe they think if they learn another language that will take away from their capability to write Perl. (ps. and you are also invited to follow the Perl Maven page.) |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Isomorphic Strings" and "Insert Interval". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by the Team PWC dealing with the "Count Number" and "Jump Game" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Abigail You don't want to miss Abigail's one liner. Pretty slick. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne continued sharing Perl and Raku gems in this blog post. Must Read. |
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by Colin Crain You can never get bored of reading Colin's blog. Amazing blogging skill. Must Read. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio showing the power of Perl regexes. If that's not enough, then you also get non-regex solution as well. |
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by Kang-min Liu Great example of showing the magic of Raku. Must Read. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Enjoy the flavour of Scala along with Perl and Raku. 3-in-1 blog post, great. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis shared something new to me in his blog post i.e RLE. Thank You. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger presenting bonus solutions in Python, Ruby and Rust. Don't forget to check out Perl and Raku as well. |
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by Simon Green Simon keeping it brief, short and precise. You won't miss the beauty of regex. |
Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) One of my Patreon supporters asked and so here is the explanation on what to do if you have a bunch of CGI scripts and would like to start modernizing them. |
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