[Cincinnati-pm] May cinci.pm status

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Sounds good to me. I'm pretty interested in this topic as well.

Chris McGowan

On Fri, May 8, 2020, 1:10 PM Scott R. Corzine <scott at ties.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I would echo Kevin and add that I would like to see that and see what is
> essential, what's a good idea, and the nice but not necessary category.
>
> I did the PRC (Pull Request Challenge) years ago and it seemed like a lot
> of the modules had files for a bunch of different modules/management
> tools.  In a few cases it looked like that control code/files was larger
> than the actual functional code.
>
> It left me uncertain what additional things I would have to learn and do
> to submit a "proper" CPAN module.
>
> -Scott-
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:27 PM Ernst, Kevin <Kevin.Ernst at cchmc.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Hope you're well.
>>
>> I'm not a professional Perl developer by trade (just
>> professionally-frustrated by Perl on a regular basis is all), so this might
>> seem like a fatuous proposition to everyone else, but what would be
>> immensely helpful for me is to see the process of *creating* a CPAN
>> module in the first place.
>>
>> I mean all the MakeMaker and the Dist::Zilla and the Makefile.PL stuff
>> that always seemed like eldritch magical incantations to me.
>>
>> I *want* to love Perl, and CPAN, but I think I don't "get" it, and
>> watching someone proficient in the language and the surrounding toolchain
>> would probably do a lot to ameliorate that situation.
>>
>> —Kevin
>>
>>
>> On 08.05.20 at 11:59, Jon Gentle wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for ideas for an activity to do together to see if this
>> idea is viable. Ideally it is something we can do as a group in about
>> an hour. Some starter ideas: work on a CPAN module together to come up
>> with some fixes for it; create a quick web app; play a group game. If
>> you have an idea for a specific module, game or app, please share. If
>> you have another idea, I'd love to hear it.
>>
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