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Session

Using CPAN Tools for In-House Development
Autrijus Tang, President, OurInternet, Inc. | The Elixir Initiative
Brian Ingerson, Free Agent, Social Text, Inc.

Track: Perl
Date: Thursday, July 29
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Location: Salon G

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Dubbed as Perl's "killer application," the CPAN toolchain underwent a massive reengineering during the past few years, resulting in a set of loosely connected tools. Learn to leverage these utilities for internal development, to simplify code authoring, testing, feedback, packaging, deployment, and quality control.

Overview of CPAN

  • Technical architecture
  • Cultural mechanism
  • Loosely coupled services

    • How CPAN works for you

  • Efficiently locate resources
  • Different levels of reusing
  • Model internal development after CPAN

    • CPAN toolchain: Old and New

  • CPAN.pm, MakeMaker, h2xs and Test.pm
  • Design principles for new tools
  • How pieces work together

    • CPANPLUS

  • The default shell: "Digital Hub" for CPAN
  • Integration with native package managers
  • Case study: A local CPAN for your organization

    • Test::More

  • Swiss-army knife for Quality Assurance
  • Manual testing and automated testing
  • Case study: Smoke testing with Tinderbox

    • Module::Build

  • Pure-perl deployment engine
  • Customizations, sans Makefile magic
  • Case study: Client-side application deployment

    • Module::Install

  • Self-attached installer backend
  • Great for roll-your-own MakeMakers
  • Case study: Site-specific installation policy

    • Module::ScanDeps

  • Recursively scan for prerequisites
  • Automatically generate Build.PL configs
  • Case study: Application packaging with PAR.pm

    • ExtUtils::AutoInstall

  • Autoconf on steroids
  • Probing and installation for user-requested features
  • Case study: Writing interactive Makefile.PL/Build.PL

    • Module::Signature

  • CPAN checksums is now PGP-protected
  • Your modules can be signed, too
  • Case study: Automatic detection of trojan code

    • Test::Reporter

  • Interface for the CPAN Testers service
  • Integration with Request Tracker
  • Case study: Buliding a "Quality Feedback Wizard"

    • Module::CPANTS

  • Automated module testing
  • Reporting back all sorts of metadata
  • Measure Kwalitee quantatively

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