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NetAddr::IP 4.079 was released in 2016 and has sat there since. I have started working on it recently, and 4.080_05 is the fifth trial release since. It is on CPAN now, and the tarball is ready for you to install!

Most of what changed is a matter of course: about a hundred fixes to bugs and to documentation that had drifted from the code, and a set of three breaking changes that fix behaviour the documentation said should not happen. NetAddr::IP is now MIT licensed, was dual licensed under GPL v2 or the Artistic License, and deprecati…

Whilst Bit::Vector is available as a Debian package in libbit-vector-perl, when installing it using cpanm the compile failed for me.

The installation crashed during the make stage, throwing a specific compiler error regarding false and true tokens:

I found this sufficient of an obstacle that I wanted to post about it for future posterity.

I was able to cpanm Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic after installing these packages on Debian Trixie.

• build-essential (unsurprisingly)
• cmake
• libprotobuf-dev
• libprotoc-dev

The last library eluded me and caused the most frustration. Anyway on to other things.

I wrote a follow up of my previous article on dev-to. It is titled Manage the health of your CLI tools at scale and explores how you might approach instrumenting your cli tools to ensure they run properly.