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Issue #589 - 2022-11-07 - GitHub Actions for Perl modules
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Hi there! Winter has arrived to us as well. After many months, yesterday was the first day I had to put on long trousers and socks. Tomorrow we might even get some rain. Anyway... It is still a bit surprising to me that only about 50% of the distributions recently uploaded to CPAN have any CI configured. Look at the stats and look at the detailed report. Clearly we, in the Perl community, have been spoiled by the excellent work of the CPAN Testers and thus people feel less need to enable GitHub Actions. On the other hand by enabling GitHub Actions they could reduce the load from the (very few) CPAN testers. They could get feedback much faster. In some ways they could do even do more diverse testing. I just saw the Tips for testing Perl modules via GitHub of Felipe Gaspar. There are some excellent suggestions on how to test your module on some special versions of perl and on other platforms such as Cygwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. Just to name a few. I'd like to also reiterate my offer. If you'd like to get help adding GitHub Actions to your project, open an issue on your GitHub project and tag me (@szabgab) so I'll be notified. I'll be happy to help and maybe even create a blog post and record a video about your module. I keep a journal of the recent PRs I sent with some comments and links. The Perl community embraced automated tests. Every Perl module comes with lots of tests. Let's now embrace Continuous Integration that runs on every push and executes these test to get very quick feedback! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Felipe Gasper Including the use of various special versions of perl, Cygwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD... |
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH) The original announcement was indeed quite confusing. I am glad Liz managed to get a clear explanation. | 
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by Saif Uddin Ahmed (SAIFTYNET) How to create sound using Perl? Why reinvent the wheel? What sounds the wheels make? | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) It is always interesting to see what is the development and release process of other people. e.g. the git branching and merging policies people have. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Greater Character" and "Array Degree" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Great show of verbose solutions. It makes the difficult algorithm easy to follow. Keep it great work. |
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by Colin Crain Colin is back with his unique style of blogging. You don't want to miss it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by E. Choroba (CHOROBA) Welcome back to blogging after a long break. You will love the choice of Naive and Opitimised solutions. Highly Recommended. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Near identical solutions in Perl and Raku, anyone can easily follow it. Thanks for sharing, |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Interesting points raised and discussed, you don't want to miss it. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by James Smith Being a fan of James, I always look forward to his contributions every week. Keep it up great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Nice use of histogram to solve the Array Degree task. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Luca Ferrari Nice use of Bag to solve Array Degree task. Raku powerful feature is on fire. Well done. |
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by W Luis Mochan Master of Perl one-liner is at his best. Highly Recommended. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Simplified task analysis which is easy to follow. Pure blogging, well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) I enjoy the varieties of solutions every week by Roger. For blog, he picked up PostScript, interesting choice. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Simon Green Nice comparison between Perl and Python. Thanks for spreading the word. |
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