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I've been using brian d foy / Andy Lester's rather useful Module::Release to automate releasing new modules to CPAN and uploading code drops to Sourceforge for a while now.

But as part of a general organisational cleanup, I moved my code repositories away from CVS to Subversion, and while I was doing that I chugged down the Module::Build koolade too.

Disaster. Module::Release doesn't grok Module::Build, nor does it know how to "tag" files in a Subversion repository. Module::Release is very much CVS + Makefile.PL only.

Hence Module::Release::Extras, at a CPAN mirror near you. Right now, this provides two subclasses that you can use with release(1) and an appropriate subclass line in your .releaserc. M::R::Subversion lets you use M::R with files in a Subversion repository, and M::R::ModuleBuild lets M::R work with modules that build using Module::Build.

And if you need to use both of these together, see M::R::NIKC for an example of how to do it.

So a couple of days ago richardc and myself were complaining about the state of Perl modules for parsing vFile type data (vCards and vCalendars chiefly). There's a mix of different modules out there, with the most obvious being Text::vFile and its subclasses.

But Text::vFile is big, and doesn't support nested vFile objects, which rules out supporting vCalendar.

With the "simplest thing that will possibly work" mantra in mind, we've put together Text::vFile::asData. Some examples of how to use it are available in a directory that should really be renamed...

Get your XML enabled photo gallery supporting goodness from AxKit::App::Gallery.

The uploaded file

    AxKit-App-Gallery-0.4.tar.gz

has entered CPAN as

  file: $CPAN/authors/id/N/NI/NIKC/AxKit-App-Gallery-0.4.tar.gz
  size: 18326 bytes
   md5: e3dc96138357d8b86817480606af1384

The audio, and slides, from a presentation I gave about this (and alluded to by acme in his journal) can be downloaded, AxKit-App-Gallery.mov. I've tested that, and it works OK in mplayer, so should be viewable on most platforms.