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Why using Docker images?

There are many reasons to use Docker Images, from setting up a development environment to pushing your code to production. The primary/first reason which pushes me to start using some Docker Images is "Continuous Integration".

When maintaining a Perl package used by multiple users/companies (or not), you absolutely want to know how your code behaves on different versions of Perl. Even if you could have multiple versions of Perl installed on your development environment, most of the time, the development is only performed using a single version of Per…

I would like to share a minor fixup when using Perl with Perlbrew on MacOS.

After updating to MacOS X Mojave... I was not able to compile any XS module.. or even reinstall a different version of Perl itself...

Here one example output when trying to compile Clone for example

> make
Skip blib/lib/Clone.pm (unchanged)
Running Mkbootstrap for Clone ()
chmod 644 "Clone.bs"
"/usr/local/perl/perls/perl-5.26.1/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Clone.bs blib/arch/auto/Clone/Clone.bs 644
"/usr/local/perl/perls/perl-5.26.1/bin/perl…

I wanted to share with you a new experimental project which could allow you to mock file tests also known as -X.

All started while we initiate a larger discussion about testing, and decided to give a size to our unit tests. Using sizes like the ones used for t-shirt: Small, Medium, Large...

The definition for each size might differ and evolve.
But at one point we were considering that a small test should not have any interactions with the file system....

So how could you test such a function, without any in…

Dist::Zilla is a great tool... but its main weakness is nearly its main advantage...
but on the other side, installing all the plugins and their dependencies is painful and can be very slow...

It's acceptable to install all these packages that are going to let you save time while developing and releasing your distro.... but contributors and Travis CI should not be slowed down by requiring the installation of these extra packages...

By tweaking the dist…

Next week I will take part of the toolchain summit 2018 in Oslo, Norway.

One recurring discussion during the last Perl events brought by kid51 is to improve detection of BBC - blead breaks CPAN. (note: blead is the branch tracking current perl development)

You can read more from kid51 on these topics here:
- Wh…