March 2015 Archives

CPAN PR-Challenge: March Report #2

The second pull request for this month is, this time, in the distribution that was assigned to me, Exobrain. In this case, it was a simple PR on dependencies.

First, define the minimum version for Data::Structure::Util, the distribution for which I created my first PR this month, in order to make it pass all the tests in version 5.20 and above. Also, took some time to clean up the C syntax.

Then, remove some dependencies that seems no longer needed from dist.ini (were hard coded) and also define a minimum version for a required module directly in the use statement.

So,…

CPAN PR-Challenge: March Report #1

This month I was assigned Exobrain. My first problem is that I can not install install it at all because dependencies are failing. The first failing dependency was Data::Structure::Util.

Looking around in Testers Matrix I found that is was failing only on 5.20 or above. Then, looked up the failing test, and understood Perl changed the way undef are passed to subroutines as first argument. After reading the Perl Delta and discussing with Andy Armstrong (the module maintainer) about that, the test was removed (it was based on a bug or not standard behavior). I did not get a chance to cr…

CPAN PR-Challenge: February Report

Given the lack of answers and/or comments from Ovid and the Community on my Pull Request on MooseX::Role::Strict, and given my lack of knowledge on Moose internals, I will declare the February assignment as finished.

Nevertheless, if meanwhile anybody comments on my Pull Request and suggest any change, I am happy to make the PR better.

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