Stories for 2007-10-26

use Perl Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
    * The future of Test::Distribution
    * New CPAN Distributions for October 25, 2007

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| The future of Test::Distribution                                   |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Thursday October 25, @14:00 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1740242              |
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[0]Test::Distribution is probably the most widely used of all the Perl
modules that I've developed. It's certainly the only one that I know of
that has been mentioned in an O'Reilly book.

Over the last couple of years (mainly ever since my wife and I moved out
of the parents and gained the responsibility of maintaining our own
household) I haven't been able to give it the attention it needed. I'm
hoping that will change over the next few years, but I've hoped that
several times in the past too...

I'm interested in people's views on what I should do with T::D. Some
ideas:

  * Just pick off where I left off. Start going through the rt bugs and
    look to adding support for Module::Build in particular

  * Deprecate the module in favour of _____

  * Try and merge with the Kwailitie/CPANTS etc. tools out there which
    attack a similar domain but from a different angle

  * Spend my time on a different project

    It'd be really good to hear from people that still use
    Test::Distribution and would appreciate me coming out from
    hibernation.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/25/1740242

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Distribution


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| New CPAN Distributions for October 25, 2007                        |
|   posted by pudge on Thursday October 25, @18:30 (Module Listings) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/25/1530208              |
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  * [0]Acme-Tiroler-0.02 -- write code like a tyrolean says it
  * [1]Astro-SpaceTrack-0.030 -- Retrieve orbital data from
    www.space-track.org.
  * [2]BSD-Process-0.05 -- Information about running processes on BSD
    platforms
  * [3]Business-TW-TSIB-VirtualAccount-0.01 -- Module for Taishin Bank
    Virtual Account Management
  * [4]CPAN-Reporter-1.03 -- Adds CPAN Testers reporting to CPAN.pm
  * [5]CatalystX-CRUD-0.04 -- CRUD framework for Catalyst applications
  * [6]CatalystX-CRUD-Controller-RHTMLO-0.04 -- Rose::HTML::Objects CRUD
    controller
  * [7]Clone-Closure-0.02 -- A clone that knows how to clone closures
  * [8]DateTime-Format-Natural-0.57 -- Create machine readable date/time
    with natural parsing logic
  * [9]Devel-Declare-0.001003
  * [10]Devel-Declare-0.001004
  * [11]Exception-ThrowUnless-1.11
  * [12]Geo-Ov2-0.90_04 -- Library for reading and writing TomTom
    Navigator .ov2 POI files.
  * [13]Geo-Ov2-0.90_05 -- Library for reading and writing TomTom
    Navigator .ov2 POI files.
  * [14]Geo-Ov2-0.90_06 -- Library for reading and writing TomTom
    Navigator .ov2 POI files.
  * [15]Gungho-0.09000_01 -- Yet Another High Performance Web Crawler
    Framework
  * [16]HTML-Feature-2.0.2 -- Extract Feature Sentences From HTML
    Documents
  * [17]InSilicoSpectro-Databanks-0.0.22 -- parsing protein/nucleotides
    sequence databanks (fasta, uniprot...)
  * [18]Lingua-EN-Conjugate-0.303 -- Conjugation of English verbs
  * [19]Lingua-ES-Numeros-0.05 -- Translates numbers to spanish text
  * [20]Locale-Object-0.78 -- An object-oriented representation of locale
    information.
  * [21]Parse-Yapp-KeyValue-0.02 -- parser for simple key/value pairs
  * [22]Rose-DBx-Garden-0.01 -- bootstrap Rose::DB::Object and
    Rose::HTML::Form classes
  * [23]Swarmage-0.00007 -- A Distributed Job Queue
  * [24]TRL-Microarray-0.061 -- A Perl module for creating and
    manipulating microarray objects
  * [25]TRL-Microarray-0.062 -- A Perl module for creating and
    manipulating microarray objects
  * [26]Term-Cap-1.11 -- Perl termcap interface
  * [27]Test-CompanionClasses-0.01 -- basic invocation of
    Test::CompanionClasses::Engine
  * [28]Test-CompanionClasses-0.02 -- basic invocation of
    Test::CompanionClasses::Engine
  * [29]Test-Weaken-0.002001 -- Test for leaks after weakening of
    circular references
  * [30]WWW-Mechanize-1.31_02 -- Handy web browsing in a Perl object
  * [31]Win32-IEHistory-0.03 -- parse Internet Explorer's history
    index.dat
  * [32]Win32-UrlCache-0.04 -- parse Internet Explorer's
    history/cache/cookies
  * [33]XML-Tiny-1.08 -- simple lightweight parser for a subset of XML
  * [34]version-0.74 -- Perl extension for Version Objects

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/25/1530208

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Acme-Tiroler-0.02
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~wyant/Astro-SpaceTrack-0.030
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~dland/BSD-Process-0.05
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~cornelius/Business-TW-TSIB-VirtualAccount-0.01
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-1.03
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/CatalystX-CRUD-0.04
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/CatalystX-CRUD-Controller-RHTMLO-0.04
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~bmorrow/Clone-Closure-0.02
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/DateTime-Format-Natural-0.57
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Devel-Declare-0.001003
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Devel-Declare-0.001004
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~rpaul/Exception-ThrowUnless-1.11
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~hpa/Geo-Ov2-0.90_04
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~hpa/Geo-Ov2-0.90_05
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~hpa/Geo-Ov2-0.90_06
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Gungho-0.09000_01
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~miki/HTML-Feature-2.0.2
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~alexmass/InSilicoSpectro-Databanks-0.0.22
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~rwg/Lingua-EN-Conjugate-0.303
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~jrey/Lingua-ES-Numeros-0.05
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~jrobinson/Locale-Object-0.78
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~diz/Parse-Yapp-KeyValue-0.02
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/Rose-DBx-Garden-0.01
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Swarmage-0.00007
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~cjones/TRL-Microarray-0.061
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~cjones/TRL-Microarray-0.062
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~jstowe/Term-Cap-1.11
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Test-CompanionClasses-0.01
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Test-CompanionClasses-0.02
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Test-Weaken-0.002001
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.31_02
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~ishigaki/Win32-IEHistory-0.03
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~ishigaki/Win32-UrlCache-0.04
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/XML-Tiny-1.08
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.74



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