February 2009 Archives

Perl patching experiences part 1

Recently I looked at submitting code fixes and posted a quick guide. Since that post I managed to find and fix a bug in Params::Util, submitting the appropriate patch. Adam Kennedy (the maintainer of the module) took it further to write the appropriate unit tests to make sure the problem never came about again.

This has made me realize that patches can be more than just code and typo fixes. An ideal patch would include code fix, unit tests for the problem and possibly documentation updates. It could even be code replacement, or alternative versions.

Writing a CPAN Task

Last week I was looking into CPAN Bundles and created my first Bundle for the PerlCertifiedHosting project. As a follow up this week I'll create a Task, which is the successor to Bundle.

After listing a load of CGI::Application modules in my Bundle::CertHost it seems it would make a lot of sense if CGI::Application had it's own Bundle or Task that I could just link to.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task/lib/Task.pm