use Perl

• Acme-ESP-1.002002 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Algorithm-Dependency-Source-DBI-0.02 -- Database source for Algorithm::Dependency
• Alien-Selenium-0.06 -- installing and finding the Selenium Web test framework
• Archive-Tar-1.34 -- module for manipulations of tar archives
• Attribute-GlobalEnable-0.01 -- Enable Attrubutes and flags globally across all code.
• Bigtop-0.30 -- A web application data language processor
• Bio-Grep-v0.9.1 -- Perl extension for searching in Fasta files
• Bricklayer-Templater-0.9.2 -- yet another templating system. Pure perl, highly flexible with very few dependincies.
• Business-ISBN-2.02 -- work with International Standard Book Numbers
• Catalyst-Plugin-Session-0.18 -- Generic Session plugin - ties together server side storage and client side state required to maintain session data.
• Config-INI-0.006
• Crypt-AON-0.03 -- All-Or-Nothing Encryption
• Crypt-AON-0.04 -- All-Or-Nothing Encryption
• Crypt-AON-0.05 -- All-Or-Nothing Encryption
• Crypt-AON-Util-0.03 -- Util functions for Crypt::AON
• Crypt-AON-Util-0.04 -- Util functions for Crypt::AON
• Crypt-AoN-Util-0.02 -- Perl extension for Utility functions for Crypt::AoN
• Egg-Release-2.23 -- Version of Egg WEB Application Framework.
• File-Monitor-Simple-0.99_1 -- Watch for changed application files
• File-PerlMove-0.04 -- Rename files using Perl expressions
• Net-SMS-2Way-0.02 -- BulkSMS API
• Net-Telnet-Brcd-0.19 -- Perl libraries to contact Brocade switch
• Net-Z3950-SimpleServer-1.06 -- Simple Perl API for building Z39.50 servers.
• Number-Phone-NO-0.06 -- Norwegian subclass of Number::Phone
• Number-Phone-NO-0.07 -- Norwegian subclass of Number::Phone
• Number-Phone-NO-0.08 -- Norwegian subclass of Number::Phone
• POE-Component-CPAN-YACSmoke-1.01 -- Bringing the power of POE to CPAN smoke testing.
• POE-Component-CPAN-YACSmoke-1.02 -- Bringing the power of POE to CPAN smoke testing.
• POE-Component-Generic-0.1003 -- A POE component that provides non-blocking access to a blocking object.
• POE-Component-Generic-0.1004 -- A POE component that provides non-blocking access to a blocking object.
• POE-Component-Generic-0.1005 -- A POE component that provides non-blocking access to a blocking object.
• RT-Extension-AttributeWalker-0.01 -- Examining Attributes of a user
• RT-Extension-AttributeWalker-0.02 -- Examining Attributes of a user
• SVG-2.34 -- Perl extension for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents
• Web-Scraper-0.09 -- Web Scraping Toolkit inspired by Scrapi
• XML-Simple-2.18 -- Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files)
• YAML-Tiny-1.14 -- Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
• parent-0.217 -- Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
• pmv-0.02 -- rename files using Perl expressions
• pmv-0.03 -- rename files using Perl expressions

barbie writes "Over the years there have been several suggestions to create a mailing list to discuss the developments of the CPAN Testing tools. When it was first created, the original CPAN Testers mailing list didn't get too much traffic and it was fairly easy to follow a discussion. However, with thousands of reports now being produced daily, any discussion gets lost in the deluge without heavy filtering in place, and even there are false positives. Following a recent request, the perl.org crew have kindly set us up with a new mailing list for anyone who is interested in the toolsets, process and any such related discussions.

Please welcome the all new CPAN Testers Discuss mailing list. Sign up by sending an empty mail to cpan-testers-discuss @ perl.org. Archives are available on the web, with more info available on the CPAN Testers Wiki.

Thanks to Robert and Ask for setting this up."

geekphilosophy writes "There's a meeting of the Vancouver Perl Mongers this Saturday, August 18th, feature Jay Shirley talking about Catalyst. Check out the Van.pm website for more details."

jrockway writes "Looks like Andy Lester has started his own version of use.perl at http://perlbuzz.com/.
TMTOWTDI!"

Looks like Andy Lester has started his own version of use.perl at http://perlbuzz.com/.
TMTOWTDI!

• Acme-ESP-1.002001 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Bricklayer-Templater-0.9.1a -- yet another templating system. Pure perl, highly flexible with very few dependincies.
• Class-DBI-Audit-0.02 -- Audit changes to columns in CDBI objects.
• Class-Plugin-Util-0.005 -- Utility functions for supporting Plug-ins.
• Class-Plugin-Util-0.006 -- Utility functions for supporting Plug-ins.
• Class-ReturnValue-0.54 -- A return-value object that lets you treat it as as a boolean, array or object
• Config-INI-0.005
• DBIx-Perform-0.692 -- Informix Perform(tm) emulator
• DashProfiler-1.06 -- collect call count and timing data aggregated by context
• Data-Passphrase-0.0.7 -- rule-based passphrase strength checker
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.08 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Devel-PPPort-3.11_03 -- Perl/Pollution/Portability
• Dir-Self-0.02 -- a __DIR__ constant for the directory your source file is in
• File-BSED-0.67 -- Search/Replace in Binary Files.
• FreeMED-Relay-0.2
• Geo-ICAO-0.32 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.33 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Getopt-LL-0.0.5 -- Flexible argument processing.
• Google-Checkout-1.1.0
• IO-AIO-Util-0.04 -- useful functions missing from IO::AIO
• Lingua-Any-Numbers-0.11 -- Converts numbers into (any available language) string.
• Lingua-Any-Numbers-0.12 -- Converts numbers into (any available language) string.
• Linux-SysInfo-0.06 -- Perl interface to the sysinfo(2) Linux system call.
• Mail-Karmasphere-Client-2.12 -- Client for Karmasphere Reputation Server
• Math-Factor-XS-0.34 -- Factorise numbers and calculate matching multiplications
• MySQL-Easy-2.0.1 -- Perl extension to handle various mundane DBI session related things specific to mysql.
• Net-CIDR-Compare-0.03 -- Find intersections across multiple lists of CIDR ranges, fast.
• Net-LDAP-HTMLWidget-0.04 -- Like FromForm but with Net::LDAP and HTML::Widget
• Net-SMS-2Way-0.01 -- BulkSMS API
• Net-XMPP2-0.07 -- An implementation of the XMPP Protocol
• Number-Phone-NO-0.04 -- Norwegian subclass of Number::Phone
• Number-Phone-NO-0.05 -- Norwegian subclass of Number::Phone
• POE-Component-Client-SMTP-0.17 -- Asynchronous mail sending with POE
• POE-Component-Generic-0.1002 -- A POE component that provides non-blocking access to a blocking object.
• POE-Component-Server-NRPE-0.04 -- A POE Component implementation of NRPE Daemon.
• Plucene-Plugin-Analyzer-MetaphoneAnalyzer-1.02 -- Metaphone analyzer
• Pod-Coverage-Moose-0.01 -- Pod::Coverage extension for Moose
• RT-Extension-LDAPImport-0.03 -- Import Users from an LDAP store
• SMS-AQL-0.05 -- Perl extension to send SMS text messages via AQ's SMS service
• Statistics-Gtest-0.03 -- calculate G-statistic for tabular data
• String-REPartition-1.6 -- Generates a regex to partition a data set
• Test-StubGenerator-0.9.5 -- A simple module that analyzes a given source file and automatically generates t/*.t style tests for subroutines/methods it encounters.
• WWW-Myspace-0.69 -- Access MySpace.com profile information from Perl
• Web-Scraper-0.08 -- Web Scraping Toolkit inspired by Scrapi
• Win32-Process-CommandLine-0.03 -- Perl extension for getting win32 process command line parameters
• XML-Compile-0.52 -- Compilation based XML processing

ehdonhon writes "You! Submit a talk proposal by 20 August 2007 (Please!)

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 is your golden opportunity to share your Perl ideas, code, and projects with eager hordes of like-minded codefolk. Last year's speakers had so much fun that we were forced to add an extra day of speaking slots to this year's PPW. Shouldn't one of those slots be yours? Shouldn't you experience the full glory of the PPW fun-fest that only speakers can know?

Skud writes "Have you completed the Perl Survey yet?

We're trying to get the number of respondents up over 4,000 this week, and we'd be particularly thrilled if we could reach out to more Perl people from non-English-speaking countries.

We currently have translations of the publicity materials and survey questions in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. Check out the translations page and if you know anyone who speaks any of those languages, please pass on the translated publicity emails, and ask them to spread the word.

If you speak a language other than English (that's not on the list already) and could provide a translation, instructions and a "translation kit" are available at the page linked above."

• App-Info-0.52 -- Information about software packages on a system
• Atompub-0.0.2 -- Atom Publishing Protocol implementation
• BDB-1.0 -- Asynchronous Berkeley DB access
• Bricklayer-Templater-0.9 -- yet another templating system. Pure perl, highly flexible with very few dependincies.
• Bricklayer-Templater-0.9.1 -- yet another templating system. Pure perl, highly flexible with very few dependincies.
• Business-ISBN-2.01 -- work with International Standard Book Numbers
• CORBA-Python-0.40
• Catalyst-Devel-1.03 -- Catalyst Development Tools
• Catalyst-Runtime-5.7008 -- Catalyst Runtime version
• DTS-0.01-1 -- Perl classes to access Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Packages
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.05 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.06 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.07 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Debug-Smart-0.002 -- Debug messages for smart logging to the file
• Devel-PPPort-3.11_02 -- Perl/Pollution/Portability
• Egg-Release-2.22 -- Version of Egg WEB Application Framework.
• Expect-1.21
• File-ExtAttr-1.05 -- Perl extension for accessing extended attributes of files
• Games-NES-Emulator-0.03 -- An object-oriented NES (6502) emulator
• Geo-ICAO-0.30 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.31 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Gnome2-1.042 -- Perl interface to the 2.x series of the GNOME libraries
• Gnome2-PanelApplet-0.01 -- Perl interface to GNOME's applet library
• GnuPG-Interface-0.36 -- Perl interface to GnuPG
• Kx-0.03 -- Perl extension for Kdb+ http://kx.com
• Language-MuldisD-0.4.1 -- Formal spec of Muldis D relational DBMS lang
• Linux-SysInfo-0.05 -- Perl interface to the sysinfo(2) Linux system call.
• Lucene-0.17 -- API to the C++ port of the Lucene search engine
• Module-Release-1.17 -- Automate software releases
• Moose-0.25 -- A complete modern object system for Perl 5
• MooseX-AttributeHelpers-0.01 -- Extend your attribute interfaces
• MtCmd-0.1 -- Perl extension for Rational ClearCase Multisite
• Net-CIDR-Compare-0.02 -- Find intersections across multiple lists of CIDR ranges, fast.
• Net-CIDR-Compare-0.1 -- Find intersections across multiple lists of CIDR ranges, fast.
• Net-CIDR-Compare-0.1.0 -- Find intersections across multiple lists of CIDR ranges, fast.
• Net-SIP-0.32 -- Framework SIP (Voice Over IP, RFC3261)
• Number-Phone-NO-0.03 -- [One line description of module's purpose here]
• POE-Test-Loops-0.97
• Proc-BackOff-0.02
• SOAP-WSDL-2.00_10 -- SOAP with WSDL support
• String-REPartition-1.5 -- Generates a regex to partition a data set
• Test-Env-1.08 -- test the environment
• Test-Reporter-1.34 -- sends test results to cpan-testers@perl.org
• Test-StubGenerator-0.9.4 -- A simple module that analyzes a given source file and automatically generates t/*.t style tests for subroutines/methods it encounters.
• Test-URI-1.07 -- Check Uniform Resource Identifiers
• Tie-Trace-0.08 -- easy print debugging with tie, for watching variable
• Time-Fuzzy-0.34 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• WebService-Recruit-Dokoiku-0.07 -- A Interface for Dokoiku Web Service Beta
• pmv-0.01 -- rename files using Perl expressions

No one complained about Business::ISBN 2.00_01, so I've promoted it to version 2.01. This adds support for ISBN-13, although it does not have publisher data for the 979 numbers (which I don't think anyone is using yet, anyway).

Don't throw away your Business::ISBN 1.x stuff until you know your applications work with the new stuff. :)

• Acme-ESP-1.001004 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Acme-ESP-1.001005 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Acme-ESP-1.001006 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Atompub-0.0.1 -- Atom Publishing Protocol implementation
• CPAN-Testers-0.01 -- QA of CPAN distributions via cross-platform testing
• CPAN-Testers-0.02 -- QA of CPAN distributions via cross-platform testing
• Class-C3-Componentised-1.0001
• DBIx-Class-0.08006 -- Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
• Date-Holidays-AU-0.05 -- Determine Australian Public Holidays
• Devel-Size-0.69 -- Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables
• Devel-Timer-0.04 -- Track and report execution time for parts of code
• Egg-Release-2.21 -- Version of Egg WEB Application Framework.
• FabForce-DBDesigner4-DBIC-0.04 -- create DBIC scheme for DBDesigner4 xml file
• File-Fcntl_Lock-0.08 -- File locking with fcntl(2)
• Games-Bingo-0.15 -- a bingo game Perl implementation
• Graph-0.83 -- graph data structures and algorithms
• Graph-Convert-0.08 -- Convert between graph formats: Graph and Graph::Easy
• Graph-Easy-0.57 -- Render graphs as ASCII, HTML, SVG or via Graphviz
• Graph-Easy-Manual-0.39 -- HTML manual for Graph::Easy
• Kx-0.02 -- Perl extension for Kdb+ http://kx.com
• Lingua-Any-Numbers-0.10 -- Converts numbers into (any available language) string.
• Module-Runtime-0.004 -- runtime module handling
• Net-Bluetooth-0.40 -- Perl Bluetooth Interface
• Perl-Critic-More-0.16 -- Supplemental policies for Perl::Critic
• Perl-Repository-APC-1.259 -- Class modelling "All Perl Changes" repository
• Plucene-Plugin-Analyzer-MetaphoneAnalyzer-1.01 -- Metaphone analyzer
• SOAP-WSDL-2.00_09 -- SOAP with WSDL support
• Tie-Trace-0.06 -- easy print debugging with tie, for watching variable
• Tie-Trace-0.07 -- easy print debugging with tie, for watching variable
• Time-Fuzzy-0.31 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.32 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.33 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• WWW-Scraper-ISBN-AmazonDE_Driver-0.01 -- Search driver for the (DE) Amazon online catalog.
• WebService-Recruit-Jalan-0.07 -- A Interface for Jalan Web Service
• WebService-TimeLine-0.01 -- Perl interface to @nifty TimeLine API
• Weed-0.01_019 -- Don't use it. It's in development. For test purposes only!
• XML-Atom-Service-0.14.0 -- Atom Service Document object
• XML-OverHTTP-0.07 -- A base class for XML over HTTP-styled web service interface
• XML-Parser-YahooRESTGeocode-0.2 -- an XML::Parser subclass for parsing results returned from YAHOO REST geocode webservice
• XML-TreePP-0.27 -- Pure Perl implementation for parsing/writing xml files
• forks-0.25 -- drop-in replacement for Perl threads using fork()
• namespace-clean-0.05 -- Keep imports and functions out of your namespace

This year the Chicago Perl Mongers sponsored a camel at the Lincoln Park Zoo. On Saturday, a group got together for a behind-the-scenes tour of the camel exhibit, and posed for a picture near the camels (as close as we dare get, and with a fence inbetween)!

Read more about the trip in my post to the Windy City Perl Mongers mailing list.

If you're ever in the Chicago area, even just to visit, feel free to take part in any of the Windy City Perl Mongers events. If you like the White Sox, we'll still be friendly.

This year the Chicago Perl Mongers sponsored a camel at the Lincoln Park Zoo. On Saturday, a group got together for a behind-the-scenes tour of the camel exhibit, and posed for a picture near the camels (as close as we dare get, and with a fence inbetween)!

Read more about the trip in my post to the Windy City Perl Mongers mailing list.

If you're ever in the Chicago area, even just to visit, feel free to take part in any of the Windy City Perl Mongers events. If you like the White Sox, we'll still be friendly.

• Acme-Isnt-0.01
• Algorithm-Dependency-Source-DBI-0.01 -- Database source for Algorithm::Dependency
• Catalyst-Plugin-Cache-FastMmap-0.71 -- Mmap cache
• Catalyst-Plugin-Cache-Memcached-0.71 -- Distributed cache
• DashProfiler-1.05 -- collect call count and timing data aggregated by context
• Date-Holidays-UK-EnglandAndWales-0.02 -- Public Holidays in England and Wales
• Geo-ICAO-0.21 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.22 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.23 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Graph-0.82 -- graph data structures and algorithms
• IPC-Mmap-0.13 -- provides a minimal mmap() interface for both POSIX and Win32
• Javascript-MD5-1.06 -- Calculate the MD5 digest of a CGI form field
• Javascript-SHA1-1.03 -- Calculate the SHA1 digest of a CGI form field
• Locale-Object-0.76 -- An object-oriented representation of locale information.
• Math-BigApprox-0.001005 -- Fast and small way to closely approximate very large values.
• Math-LogRand-0.02 -- Perl extension to return a random number with log weighting.
• Perl-Critic-More-0.15 -- Supplemental policies for Perl::Critic
• Test-Smoke-1.20 -- The Perl core test smoke suite
• Time-Fuzzy-0.21 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.22 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.30 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• UWO-Student-0.01 -- Provides Perl object representation of a University of Western Ontario student.
• WWW-Mixi-Scraper-0.06 -- yet another mixi scraper
• WWW-Search-AltaVista-2.147 -- class for searching www.altavista.com
• WWW-Search-Jarit-1.003 -- class for searching www.search.com
• zxid-0.19

After a recent patch of mine to blead split // is around three times as faster than it was, it's even faster than unpack! I'll be giving a lightning talk on this (click the "slides/index.html" link) at YAPC::EU 2007 if the conference organizers will let me.

After a recent patch of mine to blead split // is around three times as faster than it was, it's even faster than unpack! I'll be giving a lightning talk on this (click the "slides/index.html" link) at YAPC::EU 2007 if the conference organizers will let me.

• ACME-ESP-1.001001 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• ACME-ESP-1.001002 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Acme-ESP-1.001003 -- The power to implant and extract strings' thoughts.
• Algorithm-Munkres-0.07 -- Perl extension for Munkres' solution to classical Assignment problem for square and rectangular matrices This module extends the solution of Assignment problem for square matrices to rectangular matri
• CPAN-Reporter-0.99_03 -- Provides Test::Reporter support for CPAN.pm
• Class-InsideOut-1.07 -- a safe, simple inside-out object construction kit
• Crypt-SSLeay-0.56_01 -- OpenSSL support for LWP
• DBIx-FileSystem-1.3 -- Manage tables like a filesystem
• Data-Tabulator-0.01 -- Create a table (two-dimensional array) from a list (one dimensional array)
• Date-Holidays-UK-EnglandAndWales-0.01 -- Public Holidays in England and Wales
• Eludia-07.08.10
• File-DirSync-1.21 -- Syncronize two directories rapidly
• Geo-ICAO-0.10 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.11 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.12 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-ICAO-0.20 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Getopt-Std-WithCheck-0.01 -- Perl extension for process command line arguments with custom check on them
• Getopt-Std-WithCheck-0.03 -- Perl extension for process command line arguments with custom check on them
• HTML-Copy-1.22 -- copy a HTML file without breaking links.
• HTML-Merge-3.53 -- Embedded HTML/SQL/Perl system.
• IO-Socket-SSL-1.08 -- Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
• Kx-0.01 -- Perl extension for Kdb+ http://kx.com
• Language-MuldisD-0.4.0 -- Formal spec of Muldis D relational DBMS lang
• Log-Report-0.09 -- report a problem, pluggable handlers and language support
• Mail-DKIM-0.28 -- Signs/verifies Internet mail with DKIM/DomainKey signatures
• Mail-Postini-0.08 -- Perl extension for talking to Postini
• Math-BigApprox-0.001001 -- Fast and small way to closely approximate very large values.
• Math-BigApprox-0.001002 -- Fast and small way to closely approximate very large values.
• Math-BigApprox-0.001003 -- Fast and small way to closely approximate very large values.
• Math-BigApprox-0.001004 -- Fast and small way to closely approximate very large values.
• Net-Amazon-MechanicalTurk-1.01 -- Amazon Mechanical Turk SDK for Perl
• Net-LDAPapi-3.0.1 -- Perl5 Module Supporting LDAP API
• POE-Component-Server-NRPE-0.01 -- A POE Component implementation of NRPE Daemon.
• POE-Component-Server-NRPE-0.02 -- A POE Component implementation of NRPE Daemon.
• POE-Component-Server-NRPE-0.03 -- A POE Component implementation of NRPE Daemon.
• Path-Resource-0.05 -- URI/Path::Class combination.
• REST-Application-0.992 -- A framework for building RESTful web-applications.
• SOAP-Amazon-S3-0.04 -- A module for interfacing with Amazon S3 through SOAP
• SOAP-Amazon-S3-0.0401 -- A module for interfacing with Amazon S3 through SOAP
• Slay-Makefile-Gress-0.02 -- Use Slay::Makefile for software regression testing
• Talk-NothingIsFaster510-0.01
• Time-Fuzzy-0.01 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.10 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.11 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• Time-Fuzzy-0.20 -- Time read like a human, with some fuzziness
• UWO-Student -- Provides Perl object representation of a University of Western Ontario student.
• XML-Compile-0.5 -- Compilation based XML processing
• XML-Compile-0.51 -- Compilation based XML processing
• XML-MyXML-0.09806 -- A simple-to-use XML module, for parsing and creating XML documents
• XML-MyXML-0.098061 -- A simple-to-use XML module, for parsing and creating XML documents
• ack-1.65_01 -- grep-like text finder
• dvdrip-0.98.8

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The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 08 August 2007. Larry, Damian, Allison, Patrick, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the minutes.

c:

• I think I found the Tcl/Parrot problem
• unfortunately, I need either Leo or Jonathan to help
• otherwise it'll probably take another couple of weeks to track down
• fixed a couple of bugs found through Coverity scans
• looking for help from a NetBSD hacker to write a good Parrot pkgsrc package to pull and build from Subversion
• that'll get more frequent scans

Damian:

• a week away from my northern hemisphere speaking tour
• fairly focused on getting ready for that
• preparing for the YAPC::EU keynote
• thinking heavily about Perl 6 documentation features
• awful lot of effort to prepare for an eight-week tour
• I'll have a lovely uninterrupted 24 hour block of time in the air in which I hope to make documentation progress

Larry:

• did a major upgrade to the standard grammar to remove all obsolete special variables
• decent failures about what people ought to use instead
• made a language restriction: placeholder names cannot be single uppercase letters
• mostly otherwise working with Patrick about either the semantics of autoincrement or the interplay of blocks and semicolons
• we've made progress on both
• if you have any construct in the middle of a line, a construct that could terminate there, you need a semicolon if it doesn't look like there's a terminator
• partly for consistency
• mostly for visual reasons
• simplifies the grammar slightly

Nicholas:

• the grammar inferred semicolons there?

Larry:

• yes
• if you have two statements on a line, you have to terminate the first one well
• right brackets can count as termination
• makes list comprehensions easier (blocks can contain statements)
• that's occupied most of my time

Patrick:

• things are going well
• NQP is coming along nicely
• have a new contributor working on it (Colin Kuskie)
• I'm trying to make sure he's not bottlenecked
• that's part of the reason for me working with Larry this week
• the grammar doesn't always make it obvious how to accomplish certain things

c:

• how much work does NQP need before we can translate other languages?

Patrick:

• two or three ideal days
• not sure how many real days that is
• certainly hope it's before the next Parrot release
• I know people are waiting for it
• Larry's response time has been incredibly helpful on that too

Larry:

• I'm trying to look omniscient

Allison:

• implemented vtable overrides for the new object metamodel
• should be the last big thing Patrick needed before switching over PGE
• that has PDD 15 passing most of the old test suite
• only have about 70 tests failing there
• have a couple of final bits
• the new metamodel still doesn't allow you to do a vtable override on find_method
• the bulk are working
• that's a three line change
• after Patrick shifts PGE, we can remove most of the old system
• or at least shunt it away somewhere

Larry:

• how's the garbage collector coming along?

Patrick:

• we have a lot of people looking into the problem, but no real fixes yet
• it's difficult to diagnose....

• Acme-MetaSyntactic-buzzwords-0.01 -- Pointy-haired boss lingo
• Acme-MetaSyntactic-buzzwords-0.02 -- Pointy-haired boss lingo
• Acme-MetaSyntactic-buzzwords-0.03 -- Pointy-haired boss lingo
• AppConfig-Exporter-1.5 -- Allow modules to import AppConfig sections from a shared configuration.
• Bio-Emboss-5.0.0 -- Write EMBOSS programs in Perl
• CGI-SSI-0.92 -- Use SSI from CGI scripts
• CPAN-1.91_53 -- query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
• Catalyst-Manual-5.700704 -- The Catalyst developer's manual
• Clutter-0.402 -- Simple GL-based canvas library
• Config-JSON-1.1.0 -- A JSON based config file system.
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.03 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Data-Queue-Persistent-0.04 -- Perisistent database-backed queue
• Data-Tabulate-0.01 -- Create a table (two-dimensional array) from a list (one dimensional array)
• File-DirSync-1.20 -- Syncronize two directories rapidly
• Geo-Geotude-1.0 -- OOP for performing geotude location conversions.
• Geo-ICAO-0.02 -- Airport and ICAO codes lookup
• Geo-Parse-PolishFormat-0.02 -- Perl extension for parsing maps in polish text format (*.mp).
• HTML-Copy-1.21 -- copy a HTML file without breaking links.
• HTML-SiteTear-1.42 -- Make a separated copy of a part of the site
• IPC-PerlSSH-0.07 -- a class for executing remote perl code over an SSH link
• MDV-Packdrakeng-1.13 -- Simple Archive Extractor/Builder
• Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.3 -- Spam detector and markup engine
• Math-Macopt-0.03 -- A wrapper for macopt++, which is a conjugate gradient library.
• MooseX-Types-0.03 -- Organise your Moose types in libraries
• MooseX-Types-0.04 -- Organise your Moose types in libraries
• NTLM-1.03 -- An NTLM authentication module
• Net-UCP-0.26 -- Perl extension for EMI - UCP Protocol.
• POE-Filter-SAXBuilder-0.01_01 -- A POE Filter for parsing XML with XML::LibXML
• Perl-Critic-More-0.14 -- Supplemental policies for Perl::Critic
• Slay-Makefile-Gress-0.01
• Socialtext-Resting-0.21 -- module for accessing Socialtext REST APIs
• Socialtext-Resting-Utils-0.16 -- Utilities for Socialtext REST APIs
• Stack-Persistent-0.03
• Template-Plugin-Number-Format-1.02 -- Plugin/filter interface to Number::Format
• Test-HTTP-0.10 -- Test HTTP interactions.
• Test-Mock-LWP-0.05 -- Easy mocking of LWP packages
• Test-StubGenerator-0.9.3 -- A simple module that analyzes a given source file and automatically generates t/*.t style tests for subroutines/methods it encounters.
• URI-ParseSearchString-More-0.04 -- Extract search strings from more referrers.
• WebService-NFSN-0.03 -- Client for the NearlyFreeSpeech.NET API

Randal Schwartz will be presenting an Introduction to Rose::DB::Object, the ORM Framework by John Siracusa that has gained a lot of popularity since its release to CPAN.

The meeting will be on Thursday the 16th of August at 7:00pm at the Rent.com office in Santa Monica. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

For details please visit:

http://la.pm.org/

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 08 August 2007. Larry, Damian, Allison, Patrick, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the minutes.

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 08 August 2007. Larry, Damian, Allison, Patrick, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the minutes.

slanning writes "After more than a year since the last release, Bricolage version 1.10.3 has been released.

The distribution tarball can be downloaded from sourceforge (or the Bricolage web site once it has been updated).

The list of changes is in `perldoc lib/Bric/Changes.pod` of the distribution, or at sourceforge.

"

After more than a year since the last release, Bricolage version 1.10.3 has been released.

The distribution tarball can be downloaded from sourceforge (or the Bricolage web site once it has been updated).

The list of changes is in `perldoc lib/Bric/Changes.pod` of the distribution, or at sourceforge.