February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
Content preview from Programming Perl, 4th EditionBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Bug Tracking
Since Perl and CPAN aren’t a single, centralized project, there’s no one place to report or read about bugs. Although many people report bugs directly in private email, that doesn’t create a public record that everyone can work from, comment on, and potentially fix. Open source can only work if it’s open access, and dropping messages into a single person’s email isn’t open to the whole world to review and inspect.
rt.cpan.org
CPAN, the repository of contributions from thousands of authors all working on their own projects, has a bug tracker, too. Each distribution gets its own queue in the Request Tracker instance at https://rt.cpan.org. This is the default way to report a problem with a module.
Other bug tracking
Some module authors prefer to use something other than https://rt.cpan.org. Find out what they want by looking in the distribution’s documentation. Module authors sometimes include instructions in their module’s documentation, but sometimes they don’t. Since files such as README and META.yml are left behind at installation time, looking at those files at one of the CPAN Search sites might help.
perlbug
If you need to report a bug in a module that comes with perl itself, you can use the perlbug tool. This collects information about your platform and interpreter so the people who diagnose the bugs have the information they’ll need to do so. It’s really an interface that sends a specially formatted email message to perlbug@perl.org, an address you can also mail directly ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.