If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I have an interest in packaging CPAN modules as RPMs for Linux distributions based on Red Hat. For a few years, I’ve been (infrequently) building spreadsheets which list the various modules that are available as RPMs from the better know repositories (and my […]
Category: CPAN
Removing Modules from Core
I was on holiday last week and missed most of the discussions about removing Module::Build and CGI from the Perl core in the next few years. I hope you won’t mind if I chime in a little late with my thoughts. Module::Build I’m a little bemused by the Module::Build story. Well, perhaps “bemused” isn’t quite […]
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XML::Feed
XML::Feed is the module that does most of the heavy lifting for Perlanet and, as such, it powers some important parts of the Perl community’s infrastructure. Unfortunately, for a while now it’s had a rather long list of outstanding bugs that weren’t getting fixed. Sometime last year, Matt Trout got co-maintainership on the module and shortly afterwards […]
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Perl Versions
There has been a flurry of Perl 5 releases over the last few days and there’s some evidence that this has confused a few people. So let’s take a closer look at what is available. Perl 5.14.1 This is the most advanced stable version of Perl 5 currently available. It was released on 17th June. […]
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Fedora and Centos CPAN RPMs
Today I’ve updated my spreadsheets of the CPAN modules that are available as RPMs from various repositories for Fedora and Centos. I see that in many cases the “official” repos are now more up to date than my own repo (which I originally set up because the official repos are sometimes out of date). This […]