chorny

• Website: chorny.net
• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Announcing App::Midgen v0.24
  Having two modes, fast using Perl::MinimumVersion::Fast and thorough using Perl::MinimumVersion, may be useful....
• Commented on Response to Ejecting CGI.pm From the Perl Core
  Plack requires perl 5.8.1 which soon will be 10 years old. perl 5.8.0 is usually not recommended as it had some problems, which were fixed in 5.8.1 and 5.8.2. You should upgrade to at least perl 5.8.9, ActiveState improved ppm...
• Commented on How to find CPAN modules that need help on Windows?
  Manually edited list exists here: http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules#Test_Failures , but it is not maintained regularly. Automatic tool, but without distinction by OS was written by Adam and is available here: http://ali.as/top100/index.html , but, AFAIK, also is not updated....
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  Forgot to mention that modules, that were killed by using command_timeout, will not be tested again unless they will be tested as a dependency for other module....
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  CPAN::Reporter::Smoker can use Win32::Job to kill hanging processes. Install it and add "command_timeout=2000" (or some other value in seconds) to .cpanreporter/config.ini. Any installations that takes more that this amount will be killed. distroprefs can be used to skip hanging modules...
• Commented on Facing the unlikely-but-perhaps-possible emotion
  Re "timeline of incidents". I especially like that a Debian leaders response that joining to Debian developers group is based only on meritocracy was considered an incident. I'd say that the original question (by female) that included statement that Debian...
• Commented on How to install into 5.6.2
  Latest EU::MM should work on perl 5.6. If we look at cpantesters results for Linux, there is one PASS for 5.6.1 and no FAIL's and 4/1 for 5.6.2....
• Commented on DateTime is annoying
  Devel::REPL has readline/history (shared with debugger :) ) and prints results too....
• Commented on Cpan Module not installing properly
  Does http://cpan.strawberryperl.com load in browser?...
• Commented on My take on Modern Perl
  I like optional strong typing in subroutine parameters because it helps when you know to which class parameter belongs. Sometimes it is very hard to found it out if you are fixing a bug in someone's code. Of course, it...
• Commented on perlanalyst approaching ...
  Better sub declaration search in Padre would be useful. In general it would be good to have type guessing....
• Commented on perlanalyst approaching ...
  It would be useful to have in Padre IDE....
• Posted How to get rid of withoutworldwriteables? to chorny
  When you upload module to CPAN, PAUSE checks that archive does not contain world writable files, because if If files are found, PAUSE creates modified archive, with correct permissions and uploads it with the same name, only "…
• Commented on Rethinking smart matching
  My use of smart match is $str ~~ ['str1','str3',qr/str3/,...]. It is very useful for this. And it is hard to rewrite because it is not possible to easily check if string is regex or not....
• Commented on Perl code refactoring
  AFAIK, such feature is planned by Perl::Critic developers fro certain policies, but it is not yet implemented....
• Commented on Perl 5.14.0 benchmarks and RPMS
  Higher numbers are better, so 5.14 without DEBUGGING is 1.27 times better than 5.12 with DEBUGGING....
• Commented on Mojo ppl, what have you done?!
  RHEL 6 (Novemeber 2010) has 5.10.1. But most hosting providers have CentOS. Latest version of CentOS is still based on RHEL 5....
• Posted about compatibility to chorny

  From article Carmack: Direct3D is now better than OpenGL.

  John Carmack, co-founder of id Software: "I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today. ... Microsoft had the courage to con…

• Commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?
  local::lib DBD::sqlite - adding DBD::sqlite will allow moving to distributing sqlite-based CPAN index. And it would be at least one DB in core. Archive::Zip Mouse (it is already in core, but as submodule of Test::More) File::Which PAR (or at least...
• Commented on What should be core in Perl 5.16?
  JSON and HTTP::Tiny will be added in 5.14....
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  If I understand correctly, Chart::Clicker depends on Graphics::Primitive::Driver::Cairo (which depends on Cairo graphics library), but can work with any other Graphics::Primitive driver. P.S. GD::Graph is also easy to use....
• Posted mention of Perl in a fun story to chorny

  Especially I like last line. Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed.

  P.S. ="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/steveys-tech-…

• Posted Playing games and fixing bugs to chorny

  Playing games can be useful too. While playing "Lacuna Expanse" and using a bot to find a good asteroid to mine, I found a bug in YAML and fixed it. Later I found out that this bug was already reported 4…

• Posted blog moving to chorny

  Moving my blog here from blog on use.perl.org

• Commented on CPAN Testers Summary - July 2010 - Earth Inferno
  For me (at least part of me on Linux) old system was much simpler. All you need to enter is email. New system requires uploading file somewhere, and recalling 'transport' configuration string....
• Commented on Startup overhead still matters
  Perl compiler was deprecated only in core, because p5p group didn't wanted to maintain it. Now B::C is available on CPAN....
• Commented on SQL scripts? Just do it.
  Semicolon may also be in the string content (for ex. if you also fill database with data). I usually split on \n\n....
• Commented on To Depend Or Not To Depend
  How about use FindBin qw($Bin); use lib "$Bin/../lib"; ?...
• Commented on Thinking on a couple things
  Munin has some similarity with Nagios....

Comment Threads

• Aristotle commented on Response to Ejecting CGI.pm From the Perl Core

  Uhm, CGI and CGI.pm are not the same. Your whole argument is about CGI alone, and has nothing to do with whether you use CGI.pm for the job or not.

  You can write CGI scripts with no modules at all. CGI.pm is just a better way to write CGI scripts than nothing-at-all is. And Plack is an even better way yet.

  Both CGI.pm and Plack take care of things you’d have to do yourself if you used nothing-at-all, but Plack (with Plack::Request and some kind of templating or HTML generation module, if you don’t go for an actual web framework) is much better factored than CGI.pm and makes…

• Mike commented on Response to Ejecting CGI.pm From the Perl Core

  Thanks so much to you and Leon. I didn't know plack would not work with my version. I tried to upgrade all the way to 5.16.1 about 6 months ago, but it didn't work. These are notes from last Dec:

  I just tried to upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.16.1 (64bit) on one of my machines. Ran this:
  ActivePerl-5.16.1.1601-MSWin32-x64-296175.msi
  and it installed fine, but I can't find it.

  I normally keep Perl in C:/Perl, but when I
  go there it's still 5.8.0. I did a search for 'active' and '16.1' and 'Perl' and 'bin', but can't find it anywhere.

  The answer is that …

• confuseAcat commented on Response to Ejecting CGI.pm From the Perl Core

  @raudss.us: Most sysadmins have switched away from Apache a long time ago? You mean not counting the 50%+ that are still using it?

• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlcDTR-3XTXKJMjOd9EuTjv2gGqrZeSUEE commented on Rethinking smart matching

  You say "time to go the way of pseduohashes." Pseudohashes were removed because they slowed down Perl not because they made the spec too hard for a few simple minds to codify.

• bowtie commented on Announcing App::Midgen v0.24

  chorny hi,

  The main reason for supporting both is the lack of CPAN Reports for Perl::MinimumVersion::Fast at time of inclusion. Hence I wanted a way to enable any existing users to upgrade.

  But the concept of a Thorough v Fast Option needs looking at, do you have any coverage metrics of the two modules in question :)