Olivier Mengué (dolmen)

• Website: metacpan.org/author/dolmen
• About: French Perl monger in Paris.

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• Posted Hacking in progress in Lancaster to Olivier Mengué (dolmen)

  The Perl QA Hackathon 2013 started yesterday in Lancaster. About 30 people hacking to fix bugs in the Perl toolchain and all our tools we use daily to publish stuff on the CPAN. Thanks to all our sponsors that make this event possible and to all the…

• Commented on What's wrong with CPAN?
  Another metric of the "CPAN community engagement" would be some statistics on rt.cpan.org tickets. Check this gist for some tools to query RT....
• Commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules
  if.pm, a core module, is also missing from the list....
• Commented on Think Perl6-ish Variables, Expressions, and Statements
  The tale continue in Chapter 3....
• Commented on PAUSE permissions should be case-insensitive
  PAUSE patches are welcome. Here is the Git repo: https://github.com/andk/pause...
• Commented on Perl module for identifying Chinese IP addresses
  I've been told by David Landgren that he initially wrote Regexp::Assemble for about the same task: filtering on IP address blocks. Your implemetation is probably more effecient but of a tighter usage. An it would be better if the building...
• Commented on A very small script to check the masking information for each of the cloned devices.
  On this blog platform you can get syntax coloring for your Perl code by wrapping it with <pre><code>...</code></pre>...
• Commented on My First Post.
  Don't worry, writing a module is much easier than you think. And most modules on CPAN are written in pure Perl, not in C. To get you started, just look at how some modules you use are written. You use...
• Commented on Perl 7
  Renamming Perl 5.20 to Perl 7 would be a signal to the world outside the Perl community that Perl 6 is a failed project. A bit like PHP 6. But Perl 6 is not a failed project. Jonathan Worthington is...
• Commented on Speaking at QCon London next month
  Your web site is out of date: http://damian.conway.org/Events/...
• Commented on Pod::Perldoc at 3.19_01
  My name is "Olivier Mengué", not "Olivier Mengue". Will I at least see my name correctly spelled in the doc of my modules on Win32? The Win32 console is Unicode-aware, but so far perldoc seems to only feed it with...
• Commented on Profiling Dist::Zilla
  @brian See a partial answer to your question in my reply to a related question asked by David Golden. My profiling has been so far quite entry-level. Devel::TraceUse report is easy to read and cutting a big tree with a...
• Posted Profiling Dist::Zilla to Olivier Mengué (dolmen)

  Dist::Zilla is slooooowww!

  This is in part because it uses Moose. In part because it has many features. In part because it uses App::Cmd that has a major ="https…

• Commented on pmtool-1.30 (Perl Module Tools) Released
  This distribution has many things to fix. Follow the Kwalitee report here: http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/pmtools...
• Commented on Windows CPAN Testers, your help please...
  Why is the Wenity.exe not installed in bin/ ? Why is the source missing from the distribution? Do you have something to hide? Don't we have already enough malwares on Windows?...
• Commented on The JVM *could* host a Perl implementation - and do it well!
  Link to Moe: https://github.com/MoeOrganization/moe...
• Commented on How to write a test description
  Don't complain: your project at least has test descriptions! I'm dreaming of a Perl::Critic policy (or a super test) that would make test descriptions mandatory....
• Commented on 50% of the new CPAN uploads lack a repository link
  Your post lack information about how to set the kind of repository it is. This is an important information for tools that fetch the repository automatically from the distribution meta: should I use Git or Subversion to clone the repo?...
• Commented on Refactoring When Tests Are Failing
  Another solution I commonly use is TODO blocks (see Test::More for more info about TODO blocks). Before merging your own code, change the code in the common repository to add TODO blocks around the failing tests: +{ + local $TODO...
• Commented on New CPANTS Site
  The most important issue (at least for me) is that Module::CPANTS::Analyse has a bug (with a patch) that needs the maitainers attention. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80225...
• Commented on pmtools on GitHub
  Your "right to review all changes" is just your right to not pull a pull request. That's how Git/Github works: don't bring in your repo what you don't want....
• Commented on pmtools-1.20 (Perl Module Tools) Released
  An URL in a README is useless as it can not be seriously processed by programs. Please fix the metadata. For your MetaCPAN profile issue, can't you just modify temporarly the e-mail address of your PAUSE account just for the...
• Commented on Oh Carp!
  What about this: 4) Delete Carp from your application...
• Commented on pmtools-1.20 (Perl Module Tools) Released
  Great! It would be cool to also share the code on a public repository such as Github, and add metadata to the distribution to advertise it. I see that you have 2 Github accounts: https://github.com/pbmarklf https://github.com/markleightonfisher Which one do you...
• Commented on Identifying CPAN distributions you could help out with
  @Neil: I'm interested in the tool you probably wrote to build this list. Share it!...
• Commented on CGI is dead, long live CGI
  Steven, Aristotle suggestion is that you can write PSGI apps without using a framework. If I had to write a webapp that has to run on top of CGI, I would try Web::Simple for the dispatcher....
• Commented on Categorizing CPAN modules
  Adding more links to other modules in SEE ALSO sections is also a way to link modules. This is currently about the only solution to discover other related modules while browsing on MetaCPAN. If you see such links missing for...
• Commented on Method::Signatures: where and when
  When "MS" and "Windows" are in the same sentence, "MS" has usually an other expansion......
• Commented on Alien::Base Grant Report November
  Using an external Cygwin to build a module for Strawberry? Just crazy....
• Commented on Perl in msysgit : call for help
  My goal is not to build an alternative Perl distribution to StrawberryPerl. Straberry is great and I'm using it when on Win32. My goal is to make the perl bundled with msysgit usable for other tasks than just the bundled...

Comment Threads

• Ron Savage commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules

  Hi

  blogs.perl.org just ignores any attempt to click the Reply button, so I'm replying at the end....

  Good for security because restricting the # of places a modules is looked for limits the possible places where a hacker could install a module and then trick Perl into loading it.
  

• Ron Savage commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules

  Hi

  As for showing the space, I was thinking that given a spreadsheet, I (or other) could write code to generate a Graphviz image with edges linking module names to concepts or ideas. This would a different way of visualizing the connectedness or set of functionality offered by a module, one which might be clearer for some readers.
  

• Neil Bowers commented on CPAN modules that (can) load other modules

  Five more modules added, thanks for all the pointers.

• Neil Bowers commented on What's wrong with CPAN?

  Spooky timing. I was working on this over the weekend, and have RT as one of the inputs, but couldn't work out how to get the info I was after. So emailed the perl RT support. Thanks.

• Duncan commented on What's wrong with CPAN?

  There are quite a lot of modules on CPAN which are over ten years old and which haven't seen an update in that time. That doesn't mean that they need an update, but it does show that the timelines are quite long.

  I think it would be worth adding a heartbeat function. Every user who maintains at least one module should get an email once per year asking them to confirm their details. (That's one per author per year, not one per author per module per year.)

  If they fail to reply for five years then they should be removed from the list of maintainers of their modules. Any modules…