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Issue #587 - 2022-10-24 - Continuous Integration for Perl modules
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Hi there! For years Perl was a long way ahead of the other languages in terms of testing the modules. The volunteers of the CPAN Testers provide an excellent service. Every time a new module or a new version of an older module is uploaded to CPAN (via PAUSE) within days and sometimes even within hours the CPAN Testers would download the new release, test it on their machines, and send a report to the author. Sometimes they would even open issues/tickets manually to report the problem and help the author(s) fix them. These days, however, Open Source developers can use a number of free Continuous Integration systems that would give them feedback much sooner: On every push to GitHub or GitLab. They can run the author or release tests on these systems. They can configure to test other modules that use their module (reverse dependencies) to make sure the new changes don't have a negative impact on these users. They can can even re-run all the tests every day making sure that changes in the dependencies of the module don't break it. (CPAN Testers usually run the tests of a module only if you release a new version or if your module is a dependency of something that was released.) By catching certain issues before they release a new version they provide a better experience to every user of CPAN and they also take some of the manual work off the shoulders of the CPAN Testers who are few. For many years Travis-CI was the de-facto standard to set up CI for GitHub-based project. These days it is primarily GitHub Actions. So, I have been on a quest to configure GitHub Actions to all the Perl projects where the author is interested. I have documented some of these and I have written on Why and how to CI. I use the CPAN Digger to locate candidates, but if you'd like to get help with setting up CI, open an issue on your project and tag me. If you like my quest, feel free to sponsor me so I'll be able to allocate more time to this. Oh, and if your company needs help with CI and test automation, I offer that as a service. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Divisible Pairs" and "Total Zero". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Days Together" and "Magical Triplets" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Just love the demo of REPL using the powerful built=in libraries of Raku. Thanks for sharing as always. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Great show of Perl and Raku solutions side by side. Much better to learn the new tricks. Keep it up great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Breaking down of the task into smaller actions makes it easy to follow. Excellent work, thanks for sharing. |
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by James Smith Are you looking for compact solution? Well you must checkout James work, you won't be disappointed. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Just one task and that too in Raku this week. The discussion around the task is worth checking out. |
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by Luca Ferrari Brute force method in show, not a bad choice. In the end you get a clean solution. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Another show of cool one-liner in Perl. Amazing solutions, keep it up great work. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith What a nice story around the date related task. Thanks for sharing the story. Well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) As always the case, we got yet another collection of solutions in different languages. Thanks for keeping us engaged. |
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by Simon Green Love the mix of Cricket and Coding. Good luck to my Kiwi support. Thanks for your contribution. |
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by Stephen G Lynn I love the commentary on fellow member's contribution in the blog post. Keep it up great work. |
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