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  • Commented on Signing CPAN Releases with SigStore
    If PAUSE could provide (pardon the pun) an identity provider service that this could utilize, that seems like it would make a nice closed loop of trust. PAUSE mostly only gets significant overhauls at a PTS though :)...
  • Commented on Signing CPAN Releases with SigStore
    I can think of two things needed to really make this a complete solution: options for identity provider which suffice for any potential user, and the ability to verify the trust chain all the way back to the author so...
  • Commented on Signing CPAN Releases with SigStore
    The license is just one issue with Module::Signature; it also suffered that the signature was included inside the tarball, so it had to decide what it was actually signing and so would the verifier. Among other issues that I'm not...
  • Commented on AI as a Chance - Opinion
    I will not, and they are not humanoid in any sense. Thank you for your opinion....
  • Commented on Importance of Repositories in Public
    I agree that CopyFilesFromBuild is the wrong way to solve this problem and takes control away from the developer and contributors. Another solution to this (which doesn't quite solve the same problems as you did here) is the regenerate command...
  • Commented on AI as a Chance - Opinion
    I disagree with the comparison to automation in agriculture or factories. That automation is designed to reliably perform a defined task and simply does it much better than a human can, and so the downside is confined to economic labor...
  • Posted CPAN Dependencies, static and dynamic to Grinnz

    Dependencies or prerequisites are an integral feature of the CPAN software repository. They define what other CPAN modules are required for a particular CPAN distribution to be built, tested, or ultimately to function, as well as optionally to improve or add functionality. To define them properly…

  • Commented on 575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When AI Meets CPAN Maintenance
    I'm not sure where you got this idea. CPAN Testers covers whatever individual testers decide to cover, which certainly includes downstream deps of trial releases. But more importantly: how would it hurt?...
  • Commented on Learning XS - Prototyping
    Be cautious considering prototypes as "expected argument types" or "to check the number of arguments." Prototypes do not do this. They define how the arguments to the function are parsed, coercing the argument list as specified. For example, a prototype...
  • Posted CGI::Tiny - Perl CGI, but modern to Grinnz

    Originally published at dev.to

    In a previous blog post, I explored the modern way to write CGI scripts using frameworks like ="https:/…

  • Commented on Migrating from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB
    Hi dami, You are correct that they cannot guess the intended encoding of a string, but the issue here is that DBD::mysql attempts to (intentionally or not) based on the internal storage of the string. The correct behavior is to...
  • Posted Migrating from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB to Grinnz

    DBD::mysql has long provided the interface to connect to the MySQL database from Perl code. But as old as it is, it was implemented with some critical bugs that cannot simply be corrected without breaking mountains of existing code relying on…

  • Commented on A dream resyntaxed
    > But can we really specify unlifted methods? (And is "technically sufficient" really good enough?) > Are people really going to be happy that they can't use objects in BEGIN blocks (or pass them as arguments to use statements)? Or...
  • Commented on How I Uploaded a CPAN Module
    Do not use tar to create tarballs for CPAN. Always use `make dist` or `./Build dist` or the release building mechanism of your author tool. This creates the correct metadata....
  • Commented on Switch lots of things on at once
    Also check out Import::Base, which is just a wrapper around Import::Into to make this specific sort of module....
  • Commented on I failed to pause before blogging
    There is no reason the BLOCK has to be on the same line either. Anyway, making sure you don't have anything following 'package' on the line is an appropriate solution in this case. And probably including a comment so the...
  • Posted Perl 7: A Modest Proposal to Grinnz

    I've written a new blog post on Perl 7 (prev: Perl 7: A Risk-Benefit Analysis and Perl 7 By Default). You can find it, and…

  • Commented on Perl 7 By Default
    That is the very change in interpreter defaults this post is discussing....
  • Posted Perl 7 By Default to Grinnz

    Perl 7 has been announced as the next direction of Perl development. My previous blog post explored at a high level the risks and benefits of…

  • Posted Perl 7: A Risk-Benefit Analysis to Grinnz

    At the recent Conference in the Cloud for Perl and Raku, Sawyer X (the pumpking of Perl) announced an ambitious plan for Perl 7. Since Perl 6 was renamed to Raku to better…

  • Commented on Preallocating scalars
    You may also find the utility functions in FFI::Platypus::Memory and FFI::Platypus::Buffer interesting, though those are really for dealing with opaque pointers to strings when FFI::Platypus's standard C-to-Perl string conversion isn't sufficient....
  • Commented on A Date with CPAN, Update #3: Golden Jubilee
    A variant similar to what you added is coming to a future version of Time::Local. PR#15 (links cause comments to be invisibly held for approval)...
  • Commented on Are array and hash representations really needed in subroutine signatures?
    Yes. These do not represent just arrays and hashes, but "slurpy" parameters. This is the way to indicate that you want to accept any number (or zero) additional parameters. Hashes are a way to accept the extremely common named parameter...
  • Commented on Can't post a comment here -- dunno why
    I pre-emptively sign out and back in before any attempt to post a comment, and separately before any attempt to post an article (these sections of the site appear to maintain separate logins)....
  • Commented on Why is the specification of subroutine signatures so complicated?
    Because there are many different ideas, and thus expectations, of what features signatures need to have, else we risk simply changing the "Perl doesn't have signatures" criticism to "Perl's signatures are useless" when we don't fulfill someone's needs....
  • Commented on What is the value that Perl offers?
    I agree Perl needs to carve its own path, but I disagree that we should blindly hold on to how things work. SUPER and bless don't need to go away, but we would be remiss to not consider adding more...
  • Commented on Request for Feedback: Perl Documentation Site
    Gathering more data in a scientific manner is a good idea, but tangential to what we're trying to find out here. Data won't explain what people like or don't like about the style of the site, or what they wish...
  • Commented on Request for Feedback: Perl Documentation Site
    My goal was primarily to resolve or avoid the issues brought up in the GitHub issue tracker (both the old and new ones). Beyond that, it is just personal preference, so we want to know what your (collectively) preferences are....
  • Posted Request for Feedback: Perl Documentation Site to Grinnz

    The official Perl documentation site at https://perldoc.perl.org was recently overhauled. Independently, I put together a reimagined documentation site that would be hosted at https://perldoc.pl. In the interest of providing…

  • Commented on Why forward compatibility is important when trying to add a new grammar to Perl
    This is not exactly what forward compatibility means. It means designing the system to recognize features that it does not implement, so it still works as well as it used to, but it does not mean that the new features...
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