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• Commented on A meta issue for modules: bug tracking
  Disabling issues doesn't disable PRs. In fact, it's currently impossible to disable PRs at all, which is very annoying in case of mirror-only repositories....
• Commented on Request for Feedback: Perl Documentation Site
  I prefer perldoc.pl, it's much better than perldoc.perl.org, although tbh I'm not a big fan of its design, it isn't *bad*, but it's slightly too gray and depressing for my taste. A few random things I like about perldoc.pl: -...
• Commented on How Viable is Perl?
  >"My first thought," he writes, "was, I bet more people use Perl 6 than Haskell, and it's well known that people use Haskell." That's a *very* risky bet....
• Commented on Videos for London Perl Workshop 2017
  >we didn't get a recording of Leon Timmermans's talk. :(...
• Commented on Cygwin interesting problems
  The easiest way to avoid such problems is to set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH env variable to 1. When it's enabled, cygwin will not use windows %PATH%....
• Commented on use strict;
  I saw this comment in CGI::Simple code: # this module is both strict (and warnings) compliant, but they are only used # in testing as they add an unnecessary compile time overhead in production....

Comment Threads

• Tim King commented on How Viable is Perl?

  Truthfully, that was my thought as well. But it got me to thinking about whether more people are using Haskell than Perl (5), or whether more people are learning Haskell than Perl.

• Karl Williamson commented on How Viable is Perl?

  Tutorials for the board game Go are likely to have been searched for

• Tim King commented on How Viable is Perl?

  Yes, that makes a lot of sense. (Someone on the TPS blog commented the same thing, too. LOL.)

• Toby Inkster commented on A meta issue for modules: bug tracking

  Oh nice. I swear it used to disable pull requests when you disabled issues.

  Now I need to figure out how to use the API to loop through all my repos and disable the issue tracker.

• Toby Inkster commented on A meta issue for modules: bug tracking

  Easy peasy.