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Comment on On the state of i18n in Perl by Schwern

Schwern — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:13:43 +0000

I think there’s a big reason why Catalyst chose to use Maketext to implement their i18n plugin: libintl-perl uses POSIX::setlocale to determine what the program’s current locale is (and setlocale isn’t thread safe). So, if you’re running a web application in a multi-threaded web server, you could run into the scenario where someone gets a page back in the wrong language, because the locale was switched as part of someone else’s request.

Comment on Practical Common Lisp (PDF) by Launching

Launching — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:47:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing, the link given by “programmer” works. The file is large (17MB), I did not wait for the browser to open it. Instead I used wget to retrieve it via command line directly.

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:40:51 +0000

I write code and put it on CPAN because I enjoy writing it and sharing it. If I got yelled at by people demanding that I reduce my enjoyment in favour of their entitlement, I would give serious thought to giving away my maint bits to these people and either forking my own projects or simply not sharing anything at all. “You want this, fine. You get to do the honours.”

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Caldrin

Caldrin — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:16:08 +0000

I don’t get the point. So you need to stick to perl5.8 because that’s what came with your RHEL and that’s what you get Redhat support for. Therefore, you can not install perl5.10, a well tested, widely used, stable piece of software. Then how can you install modules from CPAN? You won’t get Redhat support for that either and since they are likely less tested than perl5.10 the risk to break something is much higher.

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:46:41 +0000

I totally understand your pain as I also have to use older versions of perl though I also think that your wording is very offending. Not only to Sebastian but to the other CPAN authors.

I think the problem of making it easy for people on old perls to use CPAN needs to be solved. Instead of requiring the CPAN authors to stick to old versions of Perl, IMHO, we should make it easy to “install the latest version that still works on my perl”.

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Matthew Musgrove

Matthew Musgrove — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:56:18 +0000

@rassie (Random ordering of responses as I thought of things…)

“RHEL5 is hardly ancient by any standard.” Seriously? It was old when it was released but that’s because you want the stability. Stability and modern are at oppose ends of the tech spectrum.

“But I’d like to have rationale for moving away from Perl 5.8” Five words: performance enhancements and bug fixes http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.0/perldelta.html#Performance-Enhancements http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.0/perldelta.html#Selected-Bug-Fixes http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.1/perldelta.html#Performance-Enhancements http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.1/perldelta.html#Selected-Bug-Fixes

“I want modern Perl features on modern stable servers.” Fair enough. Install a newer Perl such as 5.10.1 which was released in 2009. It’s not the latest but it’s stable. Doing so is easy and doesn’t affect the stability of the server because you don’t replace the system Perl in the process.

Oh right, you don’t want to incur the cost of regression testing. What happens when RHEL5 is at the end of life and you have to upgrade to get support? Yep, you have to regression test everything and not just your Perl applications. Don’t put off ‘til 2014 what you can do today.

You still have to incur the cost of that testing at some point and putting it off only increases said cost. As your code base grows, you will need to add more tests. More tests require more man-hours to complete the testing. More man-hours means more money out of pocket and as the years roll on, salaries increase…

So take a stand today for tomorrow’s bottom line. Fork your code, install a newer version of Perl and start regression testing your Perl application as time allows. You’ll thank yourself later when you have to regression test everything but your Perl applications. Your boss will even thank you if you present it properly.

Comment on Google is useless by Dungeon Dragons

Dungeon Dragons — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:53:39 +0000

completely agree, as you amy be able to tell from my website, I’m quite into roleplay, but it’s next to impossible to find anything useful within the first 5 pages of google anymore.

It’s even worse if you’re trying to research something in particular! Case in point, I was trying to research Bel and the Dragon (from the bible) for something I’m writing for my site, first two pages of google are resturants! Not even a mention of the bible story. Seriously makes you wonder when they lost the plot…..

The problem is, google have manuvered themselves into a monopoly, so in order to make money online people play exactly to googles algorythm, menaing the first 2 pages of any search are spam. If there were 3 big browsers, with around 30% market share each, then this wouldn’t be anywhere near as bad…

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Sebastian Riedel

Sebastian Riedel — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:12:38 +0000

It’s no longer happening, deprecation has been reverted, the Perl community is sadly not ready for it. http://mojolicio.us/perldoc?Mojolicious/Guides/FAQ#Why_is_using_Perl_52E82Ex_such_a_bad_idea3F

Comment on Upgrading and deprecating by Dave Rolsky

Dave Rolsky — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:40:50 +0000

@rassie I get your point, but your tone is way over the top and offensive. Using words like “despise” and saying that devs are giving a ‘big “fuck you!”’ to the community is really not helpful. Could you talk about this in a different way? As a developer behind a lot of widely-used Perl libraries, blog posts like yours are incredibly demotivating.

Please read http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/04/civility-starts-with-me.html and the associated blog posts.