Stories for 2005-05-21

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * Parrot 0.2.0 "NLnet" Released!
    * 5.8.7 RC1 is out
    * New CPAN Distributions for May 20, 2005

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| Parrot 0.2.0 "NLnet" Released!                                     |
|   posted by rafael on Friday May 20, @08:08 (Parrot)               |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1158217              |
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[0]leo writes "Parrot 0.2.0 "[1]NLnet" Released!

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of Parrot
0.2.0 and I'd like to thank all involved pepole as well as our sponsors
for supporting us.

It's a pleasure and honor for me to be able to advertise (after 0.1.0)
the next leap release 0.2.0 with almost complete MMD support."

Read details of the announcement below.

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1158217

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/05/20/1158217

Links:
    0. mailto:[email protected]
    1. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1533212&tid=37


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| 5.8.7 RC1 is out                                                   |
|   posted by rafael on Friday May 20, @08:20 (Releases)             |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/123238               |
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[0]nicholas writes "Perl 5.8.7 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded to
CPAN. This is a regular maintenance release for perl 5.8.x, providing bug
fixes and integrating module updates from CPAN. Download the source from
[1]ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.7-RC1.tar.bz2
(or as [2] .tar.gz ); read what's changed in [3]perldelta.pod.

Please report any problems you encounter, especially bugs introduced
since 5.8.6. Whenever possible, please report bugs using the perlbug
utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build
fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.

All being well this will be the only release candidate, and the release
will be in about 7 days."

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/05/20/123238

Links:
    0. http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/
    1. ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.7-RC1.tar.bz2
    2. ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.7-RC1.tar.gz
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7-RC1/pod/perl587delta.pod


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| New CPAN Distributions for May 20, 2005                            |
|   posted by pudge on Friday May 20, @18:30 (Module Listings)       |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1530209              |
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  * [0]Apache-Test-1.24 -- Test.pm wrapper with helpers for testing
    Apache
  * [1]App-Options-0.97 -- combine command line options, environment
    vars, and option file values
  * [2]Business-Travel-OTA-0.52 -- Tools for handling OTA-compliant (Open
    Travel Alliance) messages
  * [3]Catalyst-Plugin-Session-Flex-0.01 -- Apache::Flex sessions for
    Catalyst
  * [4]Chemistry-File-MDLMol-0.20 -- MDL molfile reader/writer
  * [5]Chemistry-Mol-0.35 -- Molecule object toolkit
  * [6]Config-YUM-1.7 -- Perl extension for parsing yum.conf
  * [7]Data-Dumper-Simple-0.07 -- Easily dump variables with names
  * [8]Data-FormValidator-4.00_01 -- Validates user input (usually from
    an HTML form) based on input profile.
  * [9]Data-RandomPerson-0.2 -- Create random people
  * [10]Devel-Arena-0.10 -- Perl extension for inspecting the core's
    arena structures
  * [11]ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.29 -- Create a module Makefile
  * [12]Games-Mastermind-0.01 -- A simple framework for MasterMind games
  * [13]Kwiki-PoweredBy-0.10 -- Kwiki Powered-By Plugin
  * [14]Kwiki-PoweredBy-0.11 -- Kwiki Powered-By Plugin
  * [15]Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.89 -- Convert singular to plural. Select "a"
    or "an".
  * [16]Lingua-EN-NameParse-1.21 -- routines for manipulating a person's
    name
  * [17]Lingua-PT-PLNbase-0.13 -- Perl extension for NLP of the
    Portuguese
  * [18]MHonArc-2.6.11
  * [19]MassSpec-CUtilities-0.02 -- Perl extension containing C utilities
    for use in mass spectrometry
  * [20]Module-Find-0.04 -- Find and use installed modules in a
    (sub)category
  * [21]Net-Netmask-1.9012 -- parse, manipulate and lookup IP network
    blocks
  * [22]Net-TL1-0.01 -- Perl extension for managing network devices using
    TL1
  * [23]OzDB-0.0.2 -- database interface module for OzBot
  * [24]OzDB-0.02 -- database interface module for OzBot
  * [25]POE-0.3101 -- portable multitasking and networking framework for
    Perl
  * [26]POE-Component-EasyDBI-0.14 -- Perl extension for asynchronous
    non-blocking DBI calls in POE
  * [27]POE-Component-Lightspeed-0.05 -- The romping grounds of IKC2
  * [28]POE-Component-Server-HTTPServer-0.9.2 -- serve HTTP requests
  * [29]POE-Component-SimpleDBI-1.12 -- Asynchronous non-blocking DBI
    calls in POE made simple
  * [30]POE-Component-Win32-Service-0.01 -- A POE component that provides
    non-blocking access to Win32::Service.
  * [31]Scalar-List-Utils-1.16
  * [32]Sort-Key-0.07 -- sorts objects by one or several keys really fast
  * [33]Test-Inline-2.00_07 -- Inlining your tests next to the code being
    tested
  * [34]Test-Inline-2.00_08 -- Inlining your tests next to the code being
    tested
  * [35]Tie-Watch-1.2 -- place watchpoints on Perl variables.
  * [36]WWW-Shorten-1.94 -- Interface to URL shortening sites.
  * [37]Xango-0.06 -- Event Based High Performance Web Crawler Framework
  * [38]mod_perl-2.0.0 -- 2.0 renaming

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=05/05/20/1530209

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~gozer/Apache-Test-1.24
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~spadkins/App-Options-0.97
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~spadkins/Business-Travel-OTA-0.52
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~rconover/Catalyst-Plugin-Session-Flex-0.01
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~itub/Chemistry-File-MDLMol-0.20
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~itub/Chemistry-Mol-0.35
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~opitz/Config-YUM-1.7
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Data-Dumper-Simple-0.07
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/Data-FormValidator-4.00_01
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~peterhi/Data-RandomPerson-0.2
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/Devel-Arena-0.10
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.29
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~book/Games-Mastermind-0.01
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Kwiki-PoweredBy-0.10
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Kwiki-PoweredBy-0.11
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-EN-Inflect-1.89
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~kimryan/Lingua-EN-NameParse-1.21
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/Lingua-PT-PLNbase-0.13
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~ehood/MHonArc-2.6.11
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~jaepstein/MassSpec-CUtilities-0.02
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~crenz/Module-Find-0.04
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~muir/Net-Netmask-1.9012
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~stevenh/Net-TL1-0.01
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~nexen/OzDB-0.0.2
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~nexen/OzDB-0.02
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE-0.3101
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~xantus/POE-Component-EasyDBI-0.14
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~apocal/POE-Component-Lightspeed-0.05
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~gregfast/POE-Component-Server-HTTPServer-0.9.2
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~apocal/POE-Component-SimpleDBI-1.12
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Component-Win32-Service-0.01
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/Scalar-List-Utils-1.16
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Sort-Key-0.07
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Test-Inline-2.00_07
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Test-Inline-2.00_08
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~lusol/Tie-Watch-1.2
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/WWW-Shorten-1.94
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Xango-0.06
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~gozer/mod_perl-2.0.0



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