June 2014 Archives

Automating Stratopan Releases with Dist::Zilla

I recently started using Jeffrey Thalhammer's excellent Stratopan to manage CPAN dependencies for a new Perl project. I had played a little with Stratopan before, but now that I'm starting to get some use out of it, I am even more impressed with Jeffrey's work.

Stratopan allows you to create your own CPAN-like site in the cloud, which you can use to maintain a stable basket of dependencies for your project. You won't have to worry about new versions of distributions sneaking onto your private CPAN and breaking your stuff. Even better, you can upload your own, private CPAN-like distributions, and now you have the entire CPAN toolchain available to manage your internal codebase.

Read more at my blog: Automating Stratopan Releases with Perl's Dist::Zilla

Removing Boilerplate with Import::Into


use feature 'signatures';
use feature 'postderef';
no warnings 'experimental::signatures';
no warnings 'experimental::postderef';

That can be abbreviated a bit by passing a list to feature and just turning off the entire experimental class of warnings:

	
use fe…

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