Category: CPAN
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perl’s Text::CSV – on github – does not need compilation
Sometimes I need its CSV.pm and CSV_PP.pm on my NAS-s in order to link them into some perl installation.
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today I ran into the “Tie::Hash::NamedCapture” problem again, and I decided to resolve it properly
I started experiencing this problem a while ago, I guess with some new Perl release “creeping” in. So far I have “resolved” this problem by choosing an older Perl version hanging around. Today on cygwin I installed “perl-debuginfo” – this won’t solve the problem on my other platforms, but at least I finally have a hook on the issue.
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installing Perl’s resp. CPAN’s CryptX as Debian package
- “Perl module that provides a self-contained crypto toolkit”
- https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX — CryptX on CPAN
- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcryptx-perl
- the “sid” AKA “unstable” AKA “bleeding edge” version is probably the one you are after
- download all 3 files mentioned there (source package) – actually (“in an ideal world“): dget the .dsc file, that will download all of them and check MD5 values
- https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/dget.1.en.html
- adapt the minimal release specified by debhelper within debian/control
- run “dpkg-source -x” on the .dsc file
- https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/dpkg-source.1.en.html
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I hope I will be able to use this as a template for other CPAN modules (like DBD::Oracle, …).
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CPAN history – edited by Neil Bowers
Very nicely made. I truely “love” CPAN.
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2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge
The message that Gabor sent out to pm_groups got forwarded in quite a few different ways:
- “replied to” with “> ” before every line
- “forwarded” but “inline”
- “forwarded” as attachment
- I haven’t seen a “redirect” yet 😎
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the “Encode” module from Perl’s CPAN: which encodings does it support?
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CPAN modules for generating passwords (remember “pwgen”!)
I started digging a little into this, when I faced the challenge to provide a customer with a password generator available on his platform. I myself had used Theodore Ts’o’s pwgen for years, so that was my search keyword.