A Porter's Tale
Well, I’m just about done with my porting project. For $work, we’ve been working on porting a fairly large codebase (the official count is nearly 2 million LOCs, although I think that probably includes whitespace and comments) from Perl 5.8.9 to 5.14.2. Actually, our goal is threefold:
- Get our code using the newest Perl. (Although, of course, that’s always a moving target: by this point 5.16 is out, so it’s not the newest any more.)
- Get our code using the newest Moose. (We’re currently on 1.21, and want to go to 2.x.)…