[pm-h] Perl Critic

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:00:42 -0400
Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:

> 
> Weren't we going to do something like this
> with the Cookbook once?
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2013/10/perlcritic-for-the-camel.html
> 
> I'm sure we all have more important projects to tend
> to, but I like the idea of streamlining the work.

I ended up spending a lot of time with O'Reilly and with Tom
Christiansen getting this worked out.

O'Reilly was willing to work with us on it, provided I could get Tom
and Nate to agree. It took a long time to finally sit down with Tom and
iron out the last few details. He was okay with the idea, as long as
the community did not try to overlap what was in core Perl. That would
be the realm of the next Cookbook, which may or may not be on the
horizon.

The "community cookbook" could be above and beyond that, covering
modules or techniques beyond core Perl.

By the time I got this hammered out, my O'Reilly contact was busy with
other stuff and my $day_job had heated up as well. Although a few
people had expressed interest, there wasn't a huge swell of support.

Maybe approaching the topic again from brian's perspective will work
better.

G. Wade
-- 
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.  Jurassic
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