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Hi all, |
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I joined the perl herd awhile ago and have been helping out the cause. I |
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think it's fair I introduce myself as another point of contact in the madness |
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that is perl in Gentoo. So: |
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1) Who are you? |
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I'm Chris White, live in Northern California. Hobbies include Japanese * and |
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general excercise methods. |
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2) Are you considered sane? |
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Depends on what I'm doing, but in general no. |
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3) Why care about perl? |
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I started working on perl because I noticed quite a few jobs wanted perl |
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experience as a requirement. I decided to re-learn perl (I'd used it before |
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slightly) and realized afterwards how powerful the language was for my |
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general usage. I realized that perl in Gentoo was a bit lacking, so I |
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stepped in and started to help. |
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4) What can we expect in the future? |
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Ok, this leads to the second part of my email. Consider this draft but it |
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somewhat outlines my thoughts on the current situation: |
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1) g-cpan.pl needs help |
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I've noticed that quite a few bugs in bugzilla stem from g-cpan.pl issues. |
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2) Modules need updating |
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I'm sure mcummings has already shown this but: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~mcummings/perl_updates.html. While the script that |
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created this has some minor issues, it still holds that it represents the |
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fact that there are lots of packages that need bumping. |
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3) Collision protection needs work |
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mcummings and myself have been talking about this for a bit. The plan seems |
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somewhat set, but we just need to figure out what's going on. |
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4) Perl minimal needs to be looked at |
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Apparently perl with the minimal USE flag has caused some questions by various |
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users as to what it entails. If you have an idea on what USE="minimal" |
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emerge perl should do, feel free to comment here. |
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5) More documentation |
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Documents should probably be setup for g-cpan usage, mod_perl setup, and what |
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mcummings has already posted. |
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That's all I can think of for now. Thanks for hearing me out even if it was |
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boring, and I hope all works out towards a better Gentoo-perl integration. |
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Chris White |
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Gentoo perl developer |
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P.S., on the note of above, if what you've heard of is something you'd be |
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interested in doing on a regular basis, feel free to contact me with regards |
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to becomming a developer. |