Hi, Thanks for the review - feels almost as if I was there (couldn't make it due to an unhappy incident between my laptop and an evil cup-of-coffee).
Regarding Fatpacker and XS - I think it's possible to use fatpacker to create a 'lib' dir, and inside put all compiled XS to all platforms in addition to the perl modules. Haven't tried it though. Cheers, Ynon On 30 July 2012 21:06, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > here I'm sharing some of my impressions and memoirs from the previous Tel > Aviv > mongers meeting: > > 1. Most people arrived before the schedule, but we still started late due > to an > active discussion that took place. We also finished kinda late, so no one > went > to the restaurant. Maybe it's the summer. > > 2. Sawyer mentioned that they have some Systems' Adminstration and QA > openings > at his current workplace, and that people can contact him about it (I hope > it > is OK to mention here). Since I am looking for that now, I already sent > him my > résumé and he forwarded it to QA. > > 3. The earlier discussion involved a discussion on why Jave is sometimes > being > preferred to Perl. One issue is that Java is much more stricter than Perl > by > default, and that you need to always play by the rules. Then, people > mentioned > that if you hire 10 developers to work with Java or with PHP, then you > won't > lose much if two of them become unavailable, while if you hire only two > Perl > developers, then you will be in trouble. Or at least that is what managers > think. > > 4. Sawyer mentioned DDP there: > > https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Printer > > One can do perl -MDDP and then do "::p $myvar" anywhere in the program. > Later > on I tried playing with it, but noticed that: > > 1. DDP.pm did not have POD on CPAN (but it did on github). > > 2. it didn't work for plain values. > > 3. Some of the colours did not work properly on my screen. > > So it seems kinda quirky. > > I mentioned https://metacpan.org/module/App::p which I was reminded of. > > ---- > > 5. I enjoyed Sawyer's talk about the layout of a CPAN distribution (which > was > similar to what he presented in the last Israeli Perl workshop), > and his later talk about FatPacker. With regards to Gabor's talk, he > mentioned > that he did not have enough time to prepare for it and that he decided to > do a > discussion instead, so it was rather disappointing (sorry!). > > 6. The FatPacker procedure seems to involve several manual steps, which > I'm not > sure if can be automated. It still seems useful > > 7. There was some discussion about whether FatPacker can handle XS-based > modules and Sawyer said it could not. For that I guess, one will need to > use > PAR or a similar solution. > > ------------------- > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ > > Chuck Norris is the greatest man in history. He killed all the great men > who > could ever pose a competition. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl -- כותב הרצאות ? מדבר מול קהל ? הבלוג שלי לומד לדבר<http://publicspeakr.blogspot.com/>כתוב במיוחד בשבילך.
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