Stories for 2008-03-09

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In this issue:
    * Vanilla Perl Build 15 - Loads of new toys
    * pmtools-1.10 Release
    * New CPAN Distributions for March  8, 2008

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| Vanilla Perl Build 15 - Loads of new toys                          |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday March 08, @14:56 (User Journal)|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/08/1937220              |
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[0]http://ali.as/download/vanilla-perl-5.10.0-build-15.exe (14.4 MB)

I'm happy to (FINALLY) release the new Vanilla Perl build 15.

Vanilla Perl is the experimental Win32 Perl distribution with the mandate
to do the absolute minimum amount of changes to the Perl core to get
various features working.

This latest experimental release contains most of the new tricks that
will be in the upcoming April Strawberry Perl, and probably the biggest
number of new features yet in a Vanilla release.

XML::Parser

This release comes with Expat and XML::Parser built in (since I still
can't make XML::Parser install from CPAN itself and you can't upgrade
it).

So it should be possible to build a range of other stuff on top of it now
(like PPM support, which is out of the scope of Vanilla).

Win32::API

Although it probably won't stay in Vanilla beyond this release, I've
bundled in Win32::API out of the box. With Win32::API also comes (be
necessity) with libwin32 bundled in as well (which is by far the biggest
install from cpan.strawberryperl.com).

With those two installed, most of the rest of the Win32:: family should
install relatively easily.

Relocation

This release contains experimental patches for all three configuration
files that contain hard-coded paths to make them capable or handling the
Perl installation being shoved around.

This should also be the first release usable for people interested in
creating Portable Perl type distributions for flash drives, etc. Of
course, this is still an .exe installer (which Portable Perl people don't
want, cause it dumps crap into the registry).

This particular feature WON'T be in Strawberry Perl, but it involved
adding some extra capabilities in regards to tweaking installs.

libwwwperl aka LWP

Because I refuse to use FTP CPAN mirrors any more (HTTP being infinitely
superior in every way) Vanilla now comes with LWP out of the box.

This also means that the built in CPAN mirrors can be used now, intead of
it falling back on the horrible FTP defaults.

Righto then...

So, with Vanilla 15 working, time to move on to getting a Strawberry
Beta.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/08/1937220

Links:
    0. http://ali.as/download/vanilla-perl-5.10.0-build-15.exe


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| pmtools-1.10 Release                                               |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday March 08, @14:56 (CPAN)        |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/08/1936257              |
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Now at a CPAN mirror site near you — [0]pmtools-1.10. Tom "spot" Callaway
of Fedora Core let me know that the Fedora folks were concerned about the
fact that pmtools was only licensed under the Perl 5 Artistic License
(they were concerned about how well the Artistic License 1.0 would stand
up in court). So, pmtools (starting with v1.10) is now dual-licensed like
Perl (Artistic and GPL). (My other public Perl stuff is also
dual-licensed.) I also added my copyright to pmtools, as I had not added
my name to the copyright when I took it over.

Off-hand, I don't recall why Tom Christiansen used only the Artistic
License for pmtools. Anyone with a clue, please drop me a line. (That of
course includes you, Tom.)

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/08/1936257

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/dist/pmtools-1.10/


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| New CPAN Distributions for March  8, 2008                          |
|   posted by pudge on Saturday March 08, @18:30 (Module Listings)   |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/08/1530208              |
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  * [0]Algorithm-Cluster-1.38 -- Perl interface to the C Clustering
    Library.
  * [1]App-Booklist-0.3_01 -- Track books you want to read, are reading,
    and have read
  * [2]AxKit-XSP-L10N-0.05000 -- String localization (L10N) taglib for
    AxKit
  * [3]Bundle-CMap-1.0.1 -- Bundle of CMap requirements
  * [4]CGI-Application-Dispatch-2.13_01 -- Dispatch requests to
    CGI::Application based objects
  * [5]Catalyst-Model-NetBlogger-0.04001 -- Catalyst Model to post and
    retrieve blog entries using Net::Blogger
  * [6]Catalyst-Plugin-RelativePaths-0.01 -- Make $c->uri_for and
    $c->req->uri_with return relative URIs
  * [7]Class-Data-Accessor-0.04002 -- Inheritable, overridable class and
    instance data accessor creation
  * [8]DBIx-Class-InflateColumn-Currency-0.02002 -- Auto-create
    Data::Currency objects from columns.
  * [9]DBIx-Class-UUIDColumns-0.02003 -- Implicit uuid columns
  * [10]DBIx-Class-Validation-0.02002 -- Validate all data before
    submitting to your database.
  * [11]DBIx-ORM-Declarative-0.22 -- Perl extension for object-oriented
    database access
  * [12]Data-FeatureFactory-0.04-r2 -- evaluate features normally or
    numerically
  * [13]Data-Throttler-0.02 -- Limit data throughput
  * [14]DateTime-TimeZone-0.73 -- Time zone object base class and factory
  * [15]EV-3.1 -- perl interface to libev, a high performance
    full-featured event loop
  * [16]ExtUtils-Install-1.50 -- install files from here to there
  * [17]File-Fu-v0.0.3 -- file and directory objects
  * [18]Flickr-Upload-1.30 -- Upload images to flickr.com
  * [19]Geo-GoogleEarth-Document-0.10 -- Generates GoogleEarth KML
    Documents
  * [20]HTML-Template-Compiled-0.91_002 -- Template System Compiles
    HTML::Template files to Perl code
  * [21]MIME-EncWords-1.000 -- deal with RFC 2047 encoded words
    (improved)
  * [22]Makefile-Parser-0.201 -- A simple parser for Makefiles
  * [23]Makefile-Parser-0.202 -- A simple parser for Makefiles
  * [24]Makefile-Parser-0.203 -- A simple parser for Makefiles
  * [25]Makefile-Parser-0.204 -- A simple parser for Makefiles
  * [26]MooseX-Params-Validate-0.05 -- an extension of Params::Validate
    for using Moose's types
  * [27]Net-OAuth-0.06
  * [28]PDF-Extract-3.02 -- Extracting sub PDF documents from a multi
    page PDF document
  * [29]POE-Component-Client-opentick-0.01 -- A POE component for working
    with opentick.com's market data feeds.
  * [30]POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-Google-Calculator-0.03 -- non-blocking
    access to Google's calculator via IRC
  * [31]POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001 -- read
    http://xkcd.com comics on IRC
  * [32]POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.002 -- read
    http://xkcd.com comics on IRC
  * [33]POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.002 -- non-blocking
    wrapper around WWW::PastebinCa::Retrieve
  * [34]POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.003 -- non-blocking
    wrapper around WWW::PastebinCa::Retrieve
  * [35]POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCom-Retrieve-0.002 -- non-blocking
    wrapper around WWW::PastebinCom::Retrieve
  * [36]POE-Component-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001 -- non-blocking wrapper
    around WWW::XKCD::AsText
  * [37]Perl-Critic-1.082 -- Critique Perl source code for
    best-practices.
  * [38]Perl-Dist-0.90_03 -- Perl Distribution Creation Toolkit
  * [39]Perl-Repository-APC-2.001 -- Class modelling "All Perl Changes"
    repository
  * [40]RDF-Query-2.000_03 -- An RDF query implementation of SPARQL/RDQL
    in Perl for use with RDF::Redland and RDF::Core.
  * [41]RDF-Trine-0.102 -- An RDF Framework for Perl.
  * [42]SVN-Notify-Config-0.0911 -- Config-driven Subversion notification
  * [43]Samba-LDAP-0.05 -- Manage a Samba PDC with an LDAP Backend
  * [44]Tie-Hash-Cannabinol-1.10 -- Perl extension for creating hashes
    that forget things
  * [45]Tie-Hash-Regex-1.01 -- Match hash keys using Regular Expressions
  * [46]Tk-ACH-0.04
  * [47]WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.002 -- retrieve pastes from
    http://pastebin.ca
  * [48]WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001 -- retrieve text versions of comics on
    www.xkcd.com
  * [49]classes-0.944 -- conventional Perl 5 classes
  * [50]kephra-0.3.6_10
  * [51]kephra-0.3.6_11
  * [52]kephra-0.3.6_12 -- crossplatform, CPAN-installable GUI-Texteditor
    along Perl's Paradigms

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/08/1530208

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~mdehoon/Algorithm-Cluster-1.38
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~genehack/App-Booklist-0.3_01
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/AxKit-XSP-L10N-0.05000
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~bfaga/Bundle-CMap-1.0.1
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~wonko/CGI-Application-Dispatch-2.13_01
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/Catalyst-Model-NetBlogger-0.04001
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~rkitover/Catalyst-Plugin-RelativePaths-0.01
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/Class-Data-Accessor-0.04002
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/DBIx-Class-InflateColumn-Currency-0.02002
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/DBIx-Class-UUIDColumns-0.02003
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~claco/DBIx-Class-Validation-0.02002
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~jschneid/DBIx-ORM-Declarative-0.22
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~sixtease/Data-FeatureFactory-0.04-r2
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Data-Throttler-0.02
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-TimeZone-0.73
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/EV-3.1
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~yves/ExtUtils-Install-1.50
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~ewilhelm/File-Fu-v0.0.3
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~cpb/Flickr-Upload-1.30
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~mrdvt/Geo-GoogleEarth-Document-0.10
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~tinita/HTML-Template-Compiled-0.91_002
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~nezumi/MIME-EncWords-1.000
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~agent/Makefile-Parser-0.201
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~agent/Makefile-Parser-0.202
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~agent/Makefile-Parser-0.203
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~agent/Makefile-Parser-0.204
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/MooseX-Params-Validate-0.05
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~kgrennan/Net-OAuth-0.06
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.02
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~infidel/POE-Component-Client-opentick-0.01
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-Google-Calculator-0.03
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.002
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.002
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.003
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-PastebinCom-Retrieve-0.002
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~elliotjs/Perl-Critic-1.082
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Perl-Dist-0.90_03
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~andk/Perl-Repository-APC-2.001
   40. http://search.cpan.org/~gwilliams/RDF-Query-2.000_03
   41. http://search.cpan.org/~gwilliams/RDF-Trine-0.102
   42. http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/SVN-Notify-Config-0.0911
   43. http://search.cpan.org/~ghenry/Samba-LDAP-0.05
   44. http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/Tie-Hash-Cannabinol-1.10
   45. http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/Tie-Hash-Regex-1.01
   46. http://search.cpan.org/~yewenbin/Tk-ACH-0.04
   47. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/WWW-PastebinCa-Retrieve-0.002
   48. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/WWW-XKCD-AsText-0.001
   49. http://search.cpan.org/~rmuhle/classes-0.944
   50. http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/kephra-0.3.6_10
   51. http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/kephra-0.3.6_11
   52. http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/kephra-0.3.6_12



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