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• Commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem
  In addition, marking a module as being followed would put all changes/releases to that module into a personalized RSS feed from search.cpan.org or metacpan....
• Commented on Subtle Template Toolkit bug / quiz
  Isn't this just a difference in operator precedence. foo = (1 IF 0); # foo set to nothing instead of (foo = 1) IF 0; # foo not touched since !0...
• Commented on Subroutine Signatures - my Plan (v.1)
  I think this is a great idea. This reminds me a lot of the argument list that JavaScript uses. Please keep up the work; between your hard effort and p5p's feedback something great will come out of it....
• Commented on Deep Cloning
  Here's a script which shows it explicitly: use strict; use warnings; use Clone qw(clone); #use Data::Printer; use 5.010; my $a = { blue => '#0000ff', one => 1 }; #p $a; my $b = clone($a); say "$a"; say "$b"; if...

Comment Threads

• Toby Inkster commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem

  Here's a Perl equivalent of Debian's "popcon":

  https://gist.github.com/tobyink/5161085

  Now we just need a web service to pump the data to and analyse it. :-)

  (I suppose we should also reduce that script's non-core deps to avoid skewing results towards the "aliased", "JSON", "Path-Tiny" and "Path-Iterator-Rule" distributions!)

• Neil Bowers commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem

  Poor man's version: script wraps it up and sends it via email.
  Use procmail or similar to run it through a script, which saves it then regenerates static pages with stats.
  Individuals would be given a "secret" token which would be included in the email, to stop people being able to spam it.
  

• Neil Bowers commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem

  Steven: installation stats should come from CPAN clients (or Toby's popcon) I agree, but not usage stats: just because a module's installed, doesn't mean you're using it.

• Neil Bowers commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem

  Olaf: I like the idea of being able to follow a CPAN author - added a section on that, with some mulling on what to do if an author you're following releases a dist they're co-maint on.

  Also like the notion of a personal MetaCPAN RSS feed, which would have all updates from things you're following / using.

  Oh, and I'd like a Pony too :-)

• Toby Inkster commented on The CPAN Unknown Usage problem

  I have a rudimentary web service now using Bitcard for login. I'll report back shortly.