-- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:51:41 -0700 From: Perl Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Perl Newsletter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Perl.com Newsletter: Patch #10,000 www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ============================================================ The 3rd O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 23-27, 2001 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina Fueling the Open Source Alternative The Perl Conference 5, XTech2001 Conference on XML (in association with GCA), the 8th Tcl/Tk Conference, the 1st Conference on PHP - 14 tracks keep you informed on the latest innovations - Register by June 22 and Save http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ============================================================ Greetings, perl.com subscribers. This is Schuyler Erle, web hacker for the O'Reilly Network, and it is my honor and pleasure to bring you the latest www.perl.com newsletter. So, without dumping core, here's what's new in the world of Perl. * Perl at large. Fairly slow week, gang. Seems like everyone's still recovering from the shock of Larry's last Apocalypse, which, if you haven't read, you really should come over to www.perl.com and check out. Notably, Perl 5 had its 10,000th patch this week, for which development pumpking Jarkko Hietaniemi applied a contribution of Andreas Koenig's, in recognition of Andreas's tremendous accomplishments with CPAN.pm and the PAUSE (a.k.a. the Perl Authors Upload Server). On the perl5-porters mailing list, Jarkko writes: The PAUSE is the major part of CPAN and ... [it] wouldn't exist without Andreas. Also the wondrous CPAN.pm is his handiwork. Remember him everytime you are using CPAN.pm and a module, including all its prerequisites, installs like magic. I know Andreas wants you to remember him also when the installation doesn't work *quite* that magically :-), send him the bug report and you can be certain that Andreas will fix the problem amazingly fast. Bravo to Jarkko, Andreas, and all of the perl5 porters, past and present, who've helped the community towards this milestone. By the way, if you've never used CPAN.pm, you should definitely take a look at it, since it's way cool *and* it comes bundled with perl. CPAN.pm allows you to automatically download and install Perl modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network with a single command, and it also features an interactive shell. You can find out more about CPAN.pm by running 'perldoc CPAN', or visiting: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CPAN Also, Chris Nandor has been pretty busy of late. Last week, I mentioned his progress on MacPerl 5.6.1. Well, not only has there been another MacPerl development update since then, but on Wednesday he also announced the long-awaited release of Slash 2.0.0. You've probably seen Slash on the web before, even if you're not familiar with it -- the name stands for "Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage." Slash sits at the heart of slashdot.org, use.perl.org, and countless other weblog/news sites, it's Open Source to boot, and, last but not least, it's written entirely in perl! The latest version represents a significant leap forward from Slash's humble origins. If you run or are thinking of running a Slashdot-like site, have a look at: http://www.slashcode.com * What's new on www.perl.com? Simon Cozens weighs in once again with another power-packed perl5-porters digest. This week, the perl5 porters ponder the meaning of the term "thread-safe", how to relocate an existing Perl installation, and how to classify CPAN modules by license type. Also, in a strange turn of events, Ilya breaks perl by feeding it random crud. Larry's Apocalypse 2 is still the big news on www.perl.com, but I think I mentioned that earlier. Some time in the next week or so, we hope to bring you a really interesting set of ruminations from Mike Schwern, on how the cognitive lessons of the common traffic light can inform the design of a programming language, like, say, Perl 6. So stay tuned! Until next week, brave Perl hackers... We return you to your regularly scheduled E-mail. SDE ============================================================ ONLamp.com: O'Reilly Network's site for high-performance web serving. ONLamp.com helps you optimize your use of the open source web platform. 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