use Perl

Do I understand correctly, that Geeknet will not host it anymore? If yes and no one else wants, I may try to host it.

How hard would be to recreate use.perl.org on another server?

E-mail was too complex here - processing of e-mails requires much more resources than processing of CPAN reports. So requirement to drop e-mail was not invented by cpantesters - it came from cpantesters "hosting" - perl.org.

file IPType.pm

package IPType;
use Regexp::Common 2.105;
use MooseX::Types::Moose qw( Str );
use MooseX::Types -declare => [ qw(IP) ];

subtype IP, as Str, where {
       $_ =~ /\A $RE{net}{IPv4} \z/msx
}, message {
       "'$_' is not a valid IP";
};

file typed.pl

use IPType qw/IP/;
use MooseX::Lexical::Types qw/IP/;

Is it developed using some version control system?

TheSchwartz: CPAN Testers PASS (2) FAIL (136)

Patch was available in 2008: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38570

Continuing celebration of Perl birthday...

ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a well known and well problematic module for installing Perl modules.

eumm-migrate is a tool I wrote to migrate from ExtUtils::MakeMaker to Module::Build. It executes Makefile.PL with fake ExtUtils::MakeMaker and rewrites all parameters for WriteMakefile into corresponding params of Module::Build->new. Calls to 'prompt' are also intercepted and corresponding 'prompt' is written to Build.PL. All other info should be ported manually.

Install App::EUMM::Migrade from CPAN and just run eumm-migrate.pl (it will be in your PATH) in directory with Makefile.PL. If you use Github, Internet connection is recommended.

eumm-migrate tries to automatically detect some properties like license, minimum Perl version required and repository used.

If someone needs it, I can also add a Module::Install writer.

P.S. If you want to just use new features of EU::MM, see eumm-upgrade.

Continuing celebration of Perl birthday...

ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a well known and well problematic module for installing Perl modules.

You have two solutions for this:
1. (best) Add Task::Weaken to BUILD_REQUIRES (or to PREREQ_PM if you don't use eumm-upgrade)
2. (new solution, may be better with ppm4) Depend on List::Util::XS

I decided to celebrate Perl birthday with several new tools. First one is 'eumm-upgrade'.

It can be used to allow using new features of ExtUtils::MakeMaker without losing compatibility with older versions. BUILD_REQUIRES is the main new feature (I wrote it). It is important for ActivePerl ppm files, for META.yml and for OS packages.

It is simple to configure to run .pl as perl for Apache. But I prefer security of cgi-bin. It means that none will be able to download my non-executable files like templates or data files.

Recently I released a new version of perlver utility. perlver and corresponding module Perl::MinimumVersion is a tool to determine minimum Perl version to run your program. New version, 1.22, should support almost all features added in Perl 5.5. I skipped features that are too complex to parse and regexes - PPI does not parse them. Also I added some features of Perl 5.6 that previously were not detected.

I'm on the 9th place in Ohloh Top 25 Perl commits (see snapshot)! They are counted by 3 latest calendar month, currently from August.

To do this I added all repositories were I worked (more than 1 commit) to Ohloh. Github is a very convenient site to have commits with your name on it - I used it much.

If you know Russian, you should read this short story: О программистах.

Many CPAN module users think that feature(s)+auto_install in Module::AutoInstall/Module::Install ask too many questions. Most prominent user of Module::AutoInstall is Plagger - it may ask up to 96+1 questions, but luckily, many will not be asked because modules are already installed or feature is platform-specific.