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Catalyst

jonasbn — 2010-03-10T11:16:40+00:00

install considered harmful? CATALYST_HOME cannot seem to overwritten if the application has been installed, even if INSTALL_BASE is used. PREFIX is not recommended.

DBI

dmarshal — 2010-03-10T03:03:51+00:00

The first argument to sigaction needs to be a number rather than a string, so the sigaction() lines should be:

sigaction(SIGALRM, $action, $oldaction) sigaction(SIGALRM, $oldaction)

Encode

mrajcok — 2010-03-09T02:12:51+00:00

It seems that whenever decode() is called, the UTF8 flag is always turned on (there is a bug report for this). Note that utf8::decode($string) seems to work like the documentation here -- i.e., for ASCII only, the flag remains off.

Encode

mrajcok — 2010-03-03T19:03:28+00:00

Should this instead read "it maybe be that encodings are *not* PerlIO-savvy"?

dbd-oracle-timeout.pod

bohica — 2010-03-03T14:23:11+00:00

"paramter" => "parameter"

dbd-oracle-timeout.pod

bohica — 2010-03-03T14:19:35+00:00

"will cause the system will be interupted" => "will cause the system call to be interrupted"

"But doing this effectively implements returns us to the" => "However doing this returns us to the"

"The does this with perl" => "Doing this with perl" (perhaps as I'm not sure exactly what you meant)

Date::Manip::Examples

harleypig — 2010-03-01T05:42:09+00:00

parse seems to be expecting a base object. I was able to get the following code to work:

$date = Date::Manip::Date->new();

$recur = $date->new_recur();

$start = $date->new_date();

$end = $date-new_date();

$start->parse( 'Jan 1 1999' );

$end->parse( 'Apr 30 1999' );

$recur->parse( '0:1*2:2:0:0:0', $date, $start $end );

@dates = $recur->dates();

CGI::Session::Driver::mysql

mrajcok — 2010-02-22T19:54:17+00:00

When I set mysql_enable_utf8 flag on the database handle, I received errors until I changed a_session from TEXT to BLOB. YMMV

WebService::LastFM::SimilarArtists

blom — 2010-02-20T10:18:24+00:00

Last.fm changed this range from 0-100 to 0.0 - 1.0. Make sure to use this option and set it to something like 0.75 instead of 75.

Time::Progress

larryl — 2010-02-17T17:18:07+00:00

Cade, you could have sub-second resolution if you use Time::HiRes instead of time().

File::Spec

somian — 2010-02-14T15:44:32+00:00

Very badly-written paragraph. The apparent meaning is

For systems with no syntax that differentiates names of files from names of directories, splitpath() assumes that the final element in the specification is the name of a file unless $no_file is true, or a trailing element separator (or the unix-like /. or /..) is present.

File::Spec

somian — 2010-02-13T19:22:04+00:00

IMHO, this is such a fundamental module that we ought to expect new Perl users to need to use it. And since that's the case, we ought to remember that new Perl users as a group do not uniformly meet the criteria of knowing the precise meaning of `functional´ vs `object-based´ programming.

I'd like the documentation here to be rewritten to say something like:

For simple uses the module File::Spec::Functions provides ordinary functions that can be called in a non- Object-Oriented style. (not by invoking a method on an implicitly-created object of the class File::Spec, as shown below).

File::Spec

somian — 2010-02-13T19:15:29+00:00

Isn't that `[...],code written by Andreas König´ (or, written without extended-Latin1, Andreas Koenig ?

Linux::Inotify

theclapp — 2010-02-11T16:24:02+00:00

The author, Torsten Werner, has "lost interest" in this package (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16581#txn-228730). See Linux::Inotify2 or similar.

Test::Perl::Critic

dcmertens — 2010-02-09T16:48:07+00:00

The proper website is http://chrisdolan.net/talk/2005/11/14/private-regression-tests/, i.e. no www

Set::CrossProduct

keno — 2010-02-08T00:46:34+00:00

s/carnality/cardinality/

PDL::Index

dcmertens — 2010-02-06T05:39:34+00:00

What... is this? Looks like some code to generate the index file. Perhaps a hand-coded file should be used instead?

DBD::WMI

roboticus — 2010-02-05T19:10:46+00:00

t/01-use.t and t/02-column-parse.t fail on cygwin. Change regex in both from /Win32/ to /(cygwin|Win32)/ and it will pass the tests.

Data::FormValidator

jonasbn — 2010-02-02T09:50:39+00:00

This feature does not make sense. From a usability perspective it does, but looking at the implementation it evaluates the input based on what is present, so it can not be used to tell if a specified parameter is not present as far as I can tell

Catalyst::Manual::Intro

alexgill — 2010-02-01T23:12:39+00:00

:Action is used as the attribute, but it's on the subroutine, not the subref... The subrefs are in the Controller's config, no?

Term::UI

DStaal — 2010-02-01T19:35:24+00:00

A bit more detail here would be nice: Params::Check's manpage tells me what I can do, but how what I put here gets translated into that is bit of a mystery.

File::Spec

MAJENSEN — 2010-01-29T14:20:01+00:00

"last file is a path" should be "last path is a file" ??

DBD::Oracle

bohica — 2010-01-28T13:26:35+00:00

I don't think VARCHAR2 is deprecated - neither do others - see http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=820012

List::MoreUtils

jonasbn — 2010-01-28T10:49:57+00:00

Using any together with a regular expression in the block: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=661292

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitMismatchedOperators

LANTI — 2010-01-27T04:58:46+00:00

To avoid false positives using repeat (x) before append (.) the repeate-part should be put into brackets.

... $BLANK x 2 . 'username=' # false positive ... ($BLANK x 2) . 'username=' # ok