Stories for 2007-11-03

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In this issue:
    * Leopard's tar is broken
    * Windy City Hackathon Accomodations
    * Open Source Symposium
    * CPAN Testers Stats - October Update - Testers New & Old
    * New CPAN Distributions for November  2, 2007

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| Leopard's tar is broken                                            |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday November 02, @02:16 (Tools)      |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/0558250              |
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I've just upgraded my MBP to Leopard. Apple's version of tar has the
annoying habit of generating extra files to represent Mac specific
attributes. That's particularly annoying for CPAN authors because they
tend to break your test suite and you can't easily see them without
unpacking the archive on a non-Mac system. Grrr.

It used to be possible to disable this behaviour by setting the env var
COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE to some true value - but this seems to
have stopped working in Leopard. As a result I've just released a broken
version of [0]Captcha::reCAPTCHA. Double Grrr.

strings /usr/bin/tar fails to reveal anything promising, /usr/bin/gnutar
is just a hard link to /usr/bin/tar and I can't get the MacPorts gnutar
to build so for now I've restored a copy of Tiger's tar from a backup and
dumped it in ~/bin (which I have on my path). Phew.

Watch out Mac-based module authors - it's hard to detect that you have a
broken archive without testing it on a non-Mac machine.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/02/0558250

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~andya/Captcha-reCAPTCHA


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| Windy City Hackathon Accomodations                                 |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday November 02, @05:30 (User Journal|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/0911236              |
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The [0]Windy City Hackathon is Dec. 14-16 in downtown Chicago.

I've reserved and paid for 12 beds at the [1]J.Ira & Nicki Harris Family
Hostel, the Windy City Hackathon location. The hackation is free, but you
if you want to stay onsite, you need to pay for your room soon to get one
of the slots. It's a total of $115 for Thursday night through Sunday
morning in hostel-style rooms. If you wait and have to get a hotel room,
you'll pay more for that for just one night and still spend most of your
time at the hostel. [2]Pay for your room with a credit card through The
Perl Review, or ask me about other ways to pay.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/02/0911236

Links:
    0. http://windycity.pm.org/details/december_perl_hackathon.shtml
    1. http://www.hichicago.org/
    2. https://www.theperlreview.com/cgi-bin/events.cgi?action=show_form;event_id=hackathon2007


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| Open Source Symposium                                              |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday November 02, @15:32 (Events)     |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1914241              |
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I've finally opened the [0]Call For Participation for the [1]Open Source
Symposium taking place April 25-26, 2008. If anyone would like to submit
a talk, please do so. I really hope to have Perl properly represented.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/02/1914241

Links:
    0. http://www.texasoss.org/cfp
    1. http://www.texasoss.org/


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| CPAN Testers Stats - October Update - Testers New & Old            |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Friday November 02, @15:34 (User Journal|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1926240              |
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[0]CPAN Testers Statistics

After successfully mapping 54 addresses from September up to mid-October,
I sent out the six-month request to all outstanding addresses used so far
this year. After only a short time I'd already received several emails
from testers updating their details for me, mapping a further 14
addresses. It is notable that several new and current testers are now
putting their names, or a least some form of reference in their
addresses, that makes it very easy for my scripts to reference them, so
thanks very much for that.

This story continues at:
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1926240

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/02/1926240

Links:
    0. http://perl.grango.org/


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| New CPAN Distributions for November  2, 2007                       |
|   posted by pudge on Friday November 02, @19:30 (Module Listings)  |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1630210              |
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  * [0]Archive-Zip-1.22 -- Provide an interface to ZIP archive files.
  * [1]Business-TW-TSIB-CStorePayment-0.01 -- Module for Taishin Bank
    Convenient Store Payment Management
  * [2]CSS-Tiny-1.15 -- Read/Write .css files with as little code as
    possible
  * [3]CatalystX-CRUD-0.05 -- CRUD framework for Catalyst applications
  * [4]CatalystX-CRUD-Controller-RHTMLO-0.05 -- Rose::HTML::Objects CRUD
    controller
  * [5]CatalystX-CRUD-Model-RDBO-0.04 -- Rose::DB::Object CRUD
  * [6]Class-Accessor-Complex-0.11 -- arrays, hashes, booleans, integers,
    sets and more
  * [7]Compress-LZF-1.9 -- extremely light-weight Lempel-Ziv-Free
    compression
  * [8]Config-INI-0.009 -- simple .ini-file format, along with
    reader/writer
  * [9]Config-Tiny-2.12 -- Read/Write .ini style files with as little
    code as possible
  * [10]DBD-MVS_FTPSQL-0.38.13 -- DBI driver to query IBM DB2 mainframe
    databases through an IBM FTP server.
  * [11]DBD-MVS_FTPSQL-0.38.14 -- DBI driver to query IBM DB2 mainframe
    databases through an IBM FTP server.
  * [12]Data-FormValidator-4.57 -- Validates user input (usually from an
    HTML form) based on input profile.
  * [13]Data-OptList-0.103 -- parse and validate simple name/value option
    pairs
  * [14]Date-Tiny-1.03 -- A date object with as little code as possible
  * [15]DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.06001 -- DateTime Extension for
    Traditional Japanese Calendars
  * [16]Email-Send-2.192 -- Simply Sending Email
  * [17]Email-Simple-Creator-1.423 -- build an Email::Simple object from
    scratch
  * [18]Eval-Context-0.02 -- Evalute perl code in context wrapper
  * [19]GD-Chart-Radial-0.07 -- plot and output Radial or Radar charts
    using the GD library.
  * [20]Gungho-0.09001 -- Yet Another High Performance Web Crawler
    Framework
  * [21]IPC-Run3-0.039 -- run a subprocess in batch mode (a la system) on
    Unix, Win32, etc.
  * [22]Log-Dispatch-2.19 -- Dispatches messages to one or more outputs
  * [23]Log-Dispatch-2.20 -- Dispatches messages to one or more outputs
  * [24]Log-Report-0.14 -- report a problem, pluggable handlers and
    language support
  * [25]Logfile-EPrints-1.17 -- Process Web log files for institutional
    repositories
  * [26]Mail-Audit-2.222 -- Library for creating easy mail filters
  * [27]Mail-Audit-List-1.852 -- Mail::Audit plugin for automatic list
    delivery
  * [28]MooseX-Iterator-0.07 -- Iterate over collections
  * [29]Net-Libnet-0.01_04 -- Perl interface to libnet
  * [30]PPI-PowerToys-0.09 -- A handy collection of small PPI-based
    utilities
  * [31]Parse-Marpa-0.001_028 -- Jay Earley's general parsing algorithm
    with LR(0) precomputation
  * [32]Parse-Marpa-0.001_029 -- Jay Earley's general parsing algorithm
    with LR(0) precomputation
  * [33]Perl6-Say-0.11 -- print -- but no newline needed
  * [34]PerlSpeak-1.50 -- Perl Module for text to speech with festival,
    cepstral and others.
  * [35]Pugs-Compiler-Rule-0.28 -- Compiler for Perl 6 regexes
  * [36]SMS-Send-US-SprintPCS-0.03 -- An SMS::Send driver for the
    messaging.sprintpcs.com website
  * [37]SQL-Bibliosoph-1.3 -- A SQL Statements Library
  * [38]SWISH-API-Object-0.11 -- return SWISH::API results as objects
  * [39]Sub-Exporter-0.977_02 -- a sophisticated exporter for
    custom-built routines
  * [40]TeX-Encode-1.1 -- Encode/decode Perl utf-8 strings into TeX
  * [41]Template-Declare-0.27 -- Perlish declarative templates
  * [42]Test-WWW-Declare-0.01 -- declarative testing for your web app
  * [43]Test-YAML-Meta-0.05 -- Validation of the META.yml file in a
    distribution.
  * [44]Text-CSV_PP-1.06 -- comma-separated values manipulation routines
    (PP version)
  * [45]Text-UpsideDown-0.01 -- flip text upside-down using Unicode
  * [46]self-0.11 -- Provides "self" and "args" keywords in your OO
    program.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/11/02/1630210

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Archive-Zip-1.22
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~clkao/Business-TW-TSIB-CStorePayment-0.01
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/CSS-Tiny-1.15
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/CatalystX-CRUD-0.05
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/CatalystX-CRUD-Controller-RHTMLO-0.05
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/CatalystX-CRUD-Model-RDBO-0.04
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Class-Accessor-Complex-0.11
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/Compress-LZF-1.9
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Config-INI-0.009
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Config-Tiny-2.12
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~cbiondo/DBD-MVS_FTPSQL-0.38.13
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~cbiondo/DBD-MVS_FTPSQL-0.38.14
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/Data-FormValidator-4.57
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Data-OptList-0.103
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Date-Tiny-1.03
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/DateTime-Calendar-Japanese-0.06001
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Send-2.192
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Simple-Creator-1.423
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/Eval-Context-0.02
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~barbie/GD-Chart-Radial-0.07
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Gungho-0.09001
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/IPC-Run3-0.039
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Log-Dispatch-2.19
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Log-Dispatch-2.20
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~markov/Log-Report-0.14
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~timbrody/Logfile-EPrints-1.17
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Mail-Audit-2.222
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Mail-Audit-List-1.852
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~rlb/MooseX-Iterator-0.07
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~smpeters/Net-Libnet-0.01_04
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/PPI-PowerToys-0.09
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Parse-Marpa-0.001_028
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~jkegl/Parse-Marpa-0.001_029
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/Perl6-Say-0.11
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~jkamphaus/PerlSpeak-1.50
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~agent/Pugs-Compiler-Rule-0.28
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~jjore/SMS-Send-US-SprintPCS-0.03
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~matiu/SQL-Bibliosoph-1.3
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~karman/SWISH-API-Object-0.11
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Sub-Exporter-0.977_02
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~timbrody/TeX-Encode-1.1
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/Template-Declare-0.27
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Test-WWW-Declare-0.01
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~barbie/Test-YAML-Meta-0.05
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/Text-CSV_PP-1.06
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~marcel/Text-UpsideDown-0.01
   46. http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/self-0.11



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