Perl Hacks: Just another Perl hacker’s blog
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Plug Plug Plug
I’ve got another set of public training courses coming up next month. They will be held at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square, London. There are three one-day courses – Introduction to Perl, Intermediate Perl and Advance Perl. They’re running on the 13th, 14th and 15th of April. More details on my training web site.…
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Marketing Perl at FOSDEM
It’s two weeks since I went to FOSDEM and I promised to write an article about what happened there. Better do that before I forget everything. Some time ago, Gabor applied for a Perl stand at this year’s FOSDEM. The idea was that we could go along and promote Perl to people who are part…
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META.yml and Building RPMs
An email has flooded in. It was in response to my piece about Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions and it was from Andreas Koenig. Andreas runs PAUSE, which is the service CPAN authors use to upload stuff to CPAN, so he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to CPAN (and many other matters).…
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Useful RPM Stuff
I forgot to mention this yesterday. I’ve set up a github project (see http://github.com/davorg/rpm_stuff) where I’ll dump bits and pieces that I’m writing to make my RPM-building life easier. The first utility I’ve uploaded there is called can_rpmbuild. You pass it an RPM spec file and it tells you which of the dependencies are available…
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Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions
Regular readers will know that in the past I’ve shown some interest in building RPMs from CPAN distributions. It’s been a while since I did much work in this area (although I do still release the occasional module to my RPM repository. Over the weekend I was at FOSDEM and I attended Gabor’s talk on…