In case you missed it Task::Kensho needs your help!:

"CPAN is wonderful and it is vast. Task::Kensho offers a curated look at the best it has to offer for those who don't know what to look for. But to remain useful, it must keep up with the trends of CPAN and the community. Thus, the community's input is vital to its maintenance.

"Please, take a moment and look through the open issues. Comment or add a reaction in support of changes that make sense to you, and open a new issue if you think something is missing."

Nothing like a long hospital stay after a severe head injury to get caught up on some project work.

I've released version 1.26 of berrybrew.

See my blog post for more information, and an example of the new berrybrew virtual command.

TL;DR

• berrybrew virtual allows you to manage non-Strawberry external Perls
  
  
• Unattended installations now possible
  
  
• new quick argument to berrybrew switch allows switching to new Perl instances without opening a new CLI window
  
  
• berrybrew module export and berrybrew modules import allows you to export and import modules between Perls. Custom module list files allowed
  
  
• Ability to change between Strawberry's home directory and Windows home directory when using File::HomeDir
  
  

Long version:

• Management of external Perl installations; Using the new berrybrew virtual command, one can bring in other installations of Perl for management under berrybrew. For example, if you have an ActiveState Perl installed on the system, you can virtualize it under berrybrew, and use or switch to it just like any of the portable Strawberry Perls we normally manage. This means that you can switch over to your system Perl when needed, without having to modify PATH, or temporarily disabling berrybrew
  
  
• Unattended installations are now possible. We no longer prompt for user acceptance when running the initial configuration
  
  
• New quick argument to berrybrew switch; This allows you to switch to a different Perl instance persistently without having to close the existing CLI window and opening a new one (note: some binaries and features may not work correctly. If you run into problems, simply open a new window)
  
  
• Export and import modules from one Perl instance to another; berrybrew modules export and berrybrew modules import will dump a list of all installed CPAN distribution names from one Perl and install it on others. The export files can be edited at will before re-importing, and you can even create your own module list files to use as you see fit. Using this feature, in conjunction with berrybrew clone allows you to easily set up template Perl instances for very quick Perl platform setup
  
  
• Ability to change the location where File::HomeDir points to; you can switch between the Windows home directory location, or the default location that Strawberry Portable editions set
  
  

Side note... a request came in by a user to support previously installed Perls. Their developers use berrybrew, but all of their CI happens automatically on a locally installed Active State Perl. They wanted a way to be able to use Active State for their testing pipeline, without having to muck with path environment variables and such that would mess up the developer environment. With berrybrew use virtual_instance, the system Perl can be used for the CI runs without affecting the rest of the system.

So excuse me just forwarding the German announcement, before delaying it till I have an appropriate translation.

(just run it thru google translate if necessary.)

Unser Workshop ist oft klein (5-15 Teilnehmer) und spontan. Es gibt also nicht wirklich eine Anmeldung von Vorträgen. Es kann auch unfertige Vorträge oder gemeinsames Hacken geben.

Datum: 27.10.2019

Uhrzeit: ab 10 Uhr

Ort: Haus der Jugend, Deutschherrenufer, Frankfurt

Angedachte Themen:

• Ein Themenstrauß im Umfeld "freie Wetterdaten" und in dem Zusammenhang die Verarbeitung mit Perl auf dem Server und in einer "Progressive Web Application" (PWA) auf dem Mobiltelefon.
• More Fun with Macros

update

NB: This was rescheduled because the 20.10.2019 did collide with the LPW.

It didn't seem to be announced here, I'll better share it again.

Barcelona Perl & Friends 2019 workshop Saturday 9 Nov 2019

for details:

• http://friends.barcelona.pm/2019/
• http://barcelona.pm/

@choroba: If you're too worried to book a LPW in a civil-brexit-war environment, consider meeting me in Barcelona. ;-)

I haven't seen an announcement yet, but discovered it yesterday: The videos from this year's European Perl Conference in Rīga are available on YouTube in the PerlCon Riga channel. Credits go to Andrew Shitov and his team for organizing, and to the Enlightened Perl Organization with their helpers for providing and running the equipment. Thank you!

The complete streams (one day, one room) had already been announced in a News Article at the conference website.

Have fun!

"Is Perl 6 being renamed?" at blogs.perl.org by ovid

Update: others have quoted what they feel to be the most salient point of ovid's article, so here's mine:

So yeah, there's bitterness and the Perl community not only needs to heal, but we need to find a way forward for both languages. The suggestion to change the name of Perl 6 to "raku" is effectively designed to make this happen. Perl 5 can figure out how to get beyond the branding issue that's been plaguing it and Perl 6 can do the same thing.

wiringPi, a library for GPIO access on the Raspberry Pi is now deprecated, for the all too familiar reasons of abuse and unreasonable expectations of others. I think all of the perl and python libraries I've seen for Pi GPIO are dependent on this.

The second day started with Liz Mattijsen’s keynote DeMythifying Perl 6. I was surprised when she stated that “Perl 6 has damaged Perl 5” was not a myth, but a fact and was totally blown away when she followed that up with a proposal to rename Perl 6.

Blog post

Thanks to the good folks at ShadowCat, we have live streams of the talks:

Stream Links (Day 1, may not work anymore):

• $ Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5iVBlk7pdg
• % Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce_hu-16UJU
• @ Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u12t4PiM7pQ

Stream Links (Day 2, may not work anymore):

• $ Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx44bh6lP1Q
• @ Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjtEay-1vv4
• % Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDd77SBYQEY

Stream Links (Day 3):

• Dollar Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenl6JEum5k
• Percent Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcQBF9jRmMI
• At Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veGJ_U3d9Ew

The schedule of talks is at https://perlcon.eu/schedule, and the channel is the Shadowcat Youtube channel.

Updates

• Type inference
  • Plugin now understands Perl much better and can infer values of different operations and invocations. Therefore - resolve and completion should be much better in many places. (Seriously, sometimes it's looks just like a magic.)
• Names suggester now taking inferred values into account when suggesting variable names.
• Introduce variable action is now available for the Perl code
• Documentation
  • Pod support has been deeply re-worked and should be much better now
  • Quick-doc on built-ins
  • Quick-doc on completion elements
  • Better completion, live-templates, smart keys, resolve and refactoring for POD
  • Re-worked POD color settings
• Mojolicious
  • Basic project model
  • Actions to create an application, plugin or lite application
  • Mojolicious::Lite DSL support

Fixes

• A lot of additional tests and related bugfixes

Links

• JetBrains repo
• Twitter
• Sources
• Google groups

Because of a music festival it's extremely difficult to find a bed for the night before the talks start on the 7th of August, but I finally found something.

That's why I'm cancelling my other reservation for a 3 bedroom apartment from the 7th till 10th of August. It's only 200 m from the venue and very affordable if you can share.

If interested here is the link

Luxury Riverside 3br Apartment Next to Old Town in Rīga

http://www.booking.com/Share-ofVnTQ

I already posted this on the telegram channel which is replicated on IRC, but without reaction.

(And I wasn't able to find a conference wiki, so I'm sharing here)

Hopefully it's of help for someone else.

See "Appendix" of this blog post.

(?:(?:\"|'|\]|\}|\\|\d|(?:nan|infinity|true|false|null|undefined|symbo
+l|math)|\`|\-|\+)+[)]*;?((?:\s|-|~|!|{}|\|\||\+)*.*(?:.*=.*)))
[download]

.*(?:.*=.*)
[download]

.*=.*
[download]

But laziness isn’t the total solution to this backtracking behaviour. Changing the catastrophic example .*.*=.*; to .*?.*?=.*?; doesn’t change its run time at all. x=x still takes 555 steps and x= followed by 20 x’s still takes 5,353 steps.

The only real solution, short of fully re-writing the pattern to be more specific, is to move away from a regular expression engine with this backtracking mechanism. Which we are doing within the next few weeks.

Another angle to consider is that of personnel. The postmortem does not dwell on the fact that this regular expression made it through review. Meaning that not only the person who wrote the regular expression was unaware of the backtracking potential of the above, but neither did the reviewer.

The videos of the 21st German Perl Workshop 2019 in Munich are available!

See the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-HF7gSXnCA&list=PLw3oQoMsMg3313xhiVkOIDlQWSs64toD4 for several hours of binge-watching Perl. Most talks are in German, slides are in English.

Thanks to Corion and the Frankfurt.pm team for their rendering work and to Lee Johnson for bringing the EPO equipment (EPO = Enlightened Perl Organisation)!