I had a patch accepted which adds an is_core() function
to Module::CoreList.
This was my first attempt at modifying a core module.
This post describes the function, why I wanted it, and my experience
adding it to a core module. And then fixing the bug I introduced!
PAUSE supports an informal mechanism for flagging that a module is available to be taken over, or to flag that you'd like help. In this article I'll outline the mechanism, and point out some things to be aware of.
Read more ...I recently released a new version of my PAUSE::Packages module, which caches information about releases on CPAN and makes it easy to iterate over it. In this post I'll cover the motivation for this module, why I decided to transform the existing PAUSE export file, and how David Golden nudged me to use JSON.
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