[Perl News] September 08, 2000

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08 September 2000
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  [0] New Perl Documentation Tools [Tools]

        If you've read the third edition of [1]Programming Perl (and who
        hasn't?), you may have noticed this line in the preface:

          Besides the customary search capabilities inherent in most
          document-viewing programs, as of the 5.6.1 release of Perl,
          each main Perl manpage has its own search and display
          capability.

        Tom Christiansen has released the first version of these tools at
        [2]http://doriath.perl.com/misc/perlman-alpha0.tar.gz. The base
        program is perlman, which allows you to access the rest of the
        documentation (e.g., calling perlman perlop, or simply perlop).
        It's very flexible, extensible, and Unix-like (though it is also
        quite portable). There will also be a perlhelp program to search
        all the available documentation at once, and perldoc for backward
        compatability. This also includes the very useful pmpath from
        Christiansen's pmtools distribution.

        So everyone go get it and start playing with it so we can include
        it in perl 5.6.1 like the Camel promised. Documentation and
        instructions for this early-alpha distribution are included.

  [3] Perl 6 Updates [Perl Releases]

        We now have over 200 [4]Perl 6 RFCs. [5]Number 200 is from Nathan
        Wiger, "Objects: Revamp tie to support extensibility (Massive tie
        changes)."

        In his [6]www.perl.com update this week, Mark-Jason Dominus
        writes that the RFC phase will probably continue at least until
        next month, when Larry Wall announces the shape of Perl 6 at the
        [7]Linux Showcase. In the meantime, he's written up a [8]summary
        of the main Perl 6 working groups and discussion lists.

        There's also a new [9]mailing list, chaired by Dan Sugalski (the
        internals pumpking for Perl 6), called perl6-source-control.

  [10] visiPerl+ 2.0 Released [Tools]

        [11]Help Consulting has released [12]visiPerl+ 2.0, a Perl IDE
        with built-in FTP client, web server. It is written in Delphi and
        runs on Windows, but there are plans to release a version for
        Linux in the future.

  [13] Damian Conway and "Quantum Superpositions" in Chicago [User
  Groups]

        [14]Tim Maher, SPUG Leader writes, "[15]Dr. Damian Conway,
        celebrated Perl Guru and author of [16]Object Oriented Perl, will
        be in Chicago in early October, continuing his Perlish rampage
        across America that began last spring, giving a free talk,
        Quantum Superpositions and the First Virtue, to the [17] Chicago
        Perl Mongers on October 8th, from 3-5pm, in the CitiBank Tower.
        Yes, this is the stupefyingly comical yet technically
        inspirational talk made famous at this summer's YAPC and TPC 4.0
        conferences. You can [18]read attendee comments on the [14]SPUG
        (Seattle Perl Users Group) presentation of this talk.

        Send email to Steven Lembark [19](lembark@wrkhors.com) of the
        [17]Chicago Perl Mongers for more details on the October 8th
        event."

        Head on over to [20]use Perl to read the [21]abstract, or for
        information about [22]two fee-based seminars Conway will also be
        giving in Chicago.

  [23] New Modules 1-6 September 2000 [Module News]

          * [24]AO-0.30
          * [25]ARSperl-1.69
          * [26]AcePerl-1.67
          * [27]Algorithm-Permute-0.02 -- Easy and fast permutation
          * [28]Apache-GDGraph-0.6
          * [29]Apache-MP3-2.10
          * [30]Apache-Reload-0.05
          * [31]Apache-Session-1.53
          * [32]Apache-Session-Counted-1.10
          * [33]CGI-FormGenerator-0.9
          * [34]CGI-WebsiteGenerator-0.3
          * [35]Class-Translucent-1.17 -- Translucent (ala perltootc)
	    method creation
          * [36]ClearCase-SyncTree-0.14
          * [37]Convert-Scalar-0.03
          * [38]Crypt-SSLeay-0.17
          * [39]Cstools-0.178
          * [40]DBD-DB2-0.74 -- DB2 Driver for DBI
          * [41]DBD-Sybase-0.23 -- Sybase Driver for DBI
          * [42]DBIx-KwIndex-0.03
          * [43]Devel-StackTrace-0.8 -- Stacktrace object w/ info like
	    Carp::confess
          * [44]Devel-StackTrace-0.85 -- Stacktrace object w/ info like
	    Carp::confess
          * [45]Digest-Perl-MD5-1.3
          * [46]Exception-Class-0.8 -- Declare exception class
	    hierarchies
          * [47]GDGraph3d-0.54
          * [48]Geography_Countries-1.2
          * [49]HTML-Latex-0.8
          * [50]HTML-Tagset-3.02
          * [51]HTML-Tree-3.04
          * [52]HTTP-Lite-0.02
          * [53]Hash-Filler-1.40
          * [54]IO-Tty-0.04
          * [55]IO-stringy-1.215
          * [56]IPC-ChildSafe-3.11 -- Control child process w/o risk of
	    deadlock
          * [57]Lingua-LinkParser1.02
          * [58]MIME-tools-5.314
          * [59]MP3-ID3v1Tag-1.11
          * [60]Mail-Alias-1.11 -- Reading/Writing/expanding of mail
	    aliases
          * [61]MailTools-1.15
          * [62]Net-RawIP-0.09c
          * [63]Parallel-Pvm-1.2 -- Interface to the PVM messaging
	    service
          * [64]PodParser-1.18
          * [65]Proc-PID_File-0.02
          * [66]RenderMan-0.03 -- Manipulate RenderMan objects
          * [67]SOAP-0.28 -- SOAP/Perl language mapping
          * [68]Storable-1.0.0 -- Persistent data structure mechanism
          * [69]String-Approx-3.13 -- Approximate string matching and
	    substitution
          * [70]System-Index-0.1
          * [71]Text-DoubleMetaphone-0.04
          * [72]Text-Shoebox-0.21
          * [73]Tie-EncryptedHash-1.0
          * [74]TimeDate-1.10
          * [75]Tk-Date-0.33
          * [76]Tk-GBARR-2.01
          * [77]Tk-Getopt-0.41
          * [78]Tk-XMLViewer-0.12
          * [79]WWW-Search-Excite-2.11
          * [80]XML-TiePYX-0.03
          * [81]libdwg-1.2
          * [82]podlators-1.03

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  14. http://www.halcyon.com/spug/
  15. http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Conway_Damian
  16. http://www.manning.com/Conway/
  17. http://chicago.pm.org/
  18. http://www.halcyon.com/spug/qs.html
  19. mailto:lembark@wrkhors.com
  20. http://use.perl.org/
  21. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/07/2014221
  22. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/08/1524243
  23. http://www.news.perl.org/perl-news.cgi?item=968433521%7C1896
  24. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=AO-0.30
  25. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ARSperl-1.69
  26. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=AcePerl-1.67
  27. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Algorithm-Permute-0.02
  28. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-GDGraph-0.6
  29. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-MP3-2.10
  30. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-Reload-0.05
  31. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-Session-1.53
  32. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-Session-Counted-1.10
  33. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-FormGenerator-0.9
  34. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-WebsiteGenerator-0.3
  35. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Class-Translucent-1.17
  36. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=ClearCase-SyncTree-0.14
  37. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Convert-Scalar-0.03
  38. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-SSLeay-0.17
  39. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Cstools-0.178
  40. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBD-DB2-0.74
  41. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBD-Sybase-0.23
  42. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=DBIx-KwIndex-0.03
  43. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Devel-StackTrace-0.8
  44. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Devel-StackTrace-0.85
  45. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Digest-Perl-MD5-1.3
  46. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Exception-Class-0.8
  47. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=GDGraph3d-0.54
  48. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Geography_Countries-1.2
  49. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Latex-0.8
  50. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tagset-3.02
  51. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTML-Tree-3.04
  52. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=HTTP-Lite-0.02
  53. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Hash-Filler-1.40
  54. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=IO-Tty-0.04
  55. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=IO-stringy-1.215
  56. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=IPC-ChildSafe-3.11
  57. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Lingua-LinkParser1.02
  58. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-tools-5.314
  59. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MP3-ID3v1Tag-1.11
  60. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Alias-1.11
  61. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailTools-1.15
  62. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-RawIP-0.09c
  63. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Parallel-Pvm-1.2
  64. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PodParser-1.18
  65. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Proc-PID_File-0.02
  66. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=RenderMan-0.03
  67. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=SOAP-0.28
  68. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Storable-1.0.0
  69. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=String-Approx-3.13
  70. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=System-Index-0.1
  71. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-DoubleMetaphone-0.04
  72. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Shoebox-0.21
  73. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tie-EncryptedHash-1.0
  74. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=TimeDate-1.10
  75. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tk-Date-0.33
  76. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tk-GBARR-2.01
  77. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tk-Getopt-0.41
  78. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tk-XMLViewer-0.12
  79. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=WWW-Search-Excite-2.11
  80. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=XML-TiePYX-0.03
  81. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libdwg-1.2
  82. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=podlators-1.03


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