Category: CPAN
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perl’s Text::CSV – on github – does not need compilation
https://github.com/makamaka/Text-CSV 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
https://metacpan.org/pod/Tie::Hash::NamedCapture 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…
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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…
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CPAN history – edited by Neil Bowers
https://github.com/neilbowers/history-of-cpan/blob/master/history.md Very nicely made. I truely “love” CPAN.
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2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge
http://perlmaven.com/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?
$ perl -MEncode -le “print for Encode->encodings(‘:all’)”
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Perl Maven: Installing a Perl Module from CPAN on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
http://perlmaven.com/how-to-install-a-perl-module-from-cpan Not covering perlbrew.
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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. Neil Bowers on CPAN modules for generating passwords [link] (looks like THE CONTEMPORARY REPORT on the topic)…