Gonna build a #CPAN testing VM with #DragonflyBSD. Any gotchas that my fedihomies think that a seasoned Unixhead should know about?

#perl

A few days ago I tried to build some perls with 32 bit ints and 128 bit floats. Cue test failures. Today I tried again, and this time I read my notes from last time on how to do it, and it Just Works.

Yay past me!

(the #BigInt modules bundled with some versions of perl don't like that combination of data sizes; the solution is to ignore their test failures, install anyway, and then upgrade to the latest versions from the #CPAN)

#perl #32bit #RidiculousComputing #ComputationalPerversions

I have released a new version of App::CpanDak, my sub-class of App::cpanminus / cpanm with "some sort of distroprefs"

You could already apply patches, skip tests, and set environment variables, to any distribution you installed; now you can augment version specifications.

Some::Fancy::Library has released a new version 1.3.4 that doesn't install cleanly? add a Some-Fancy-Library.options.yml with:

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#perl #cpan #popularity

MetaCPAN @metacpan now displays security advisories when you are viewing a module with advisories.

#Perl #CPAN #security #infosec #CVE @cpansec

@cpansec published a 2025 year in review!

We had lots of activities, and good progress in many places, but can do more.

Check it out, and if you feel inspired, join us!

https://security.metacpan.org/2026/01/31/CPANSec-Retrospective-2025.html

#CPAN #Perl #Security #FOSS #SupplyChainSecurity

I released a new #Perl #Apache::Session module to #CPAN.

This module uses the system source of randomness to generate session ids.

https://metacpan.org/dist/Apache-Session-Generate-Random

A comment I just posted on /r/perl defending my decision to increase the minimum supported #perl version to 5.20 on a lot of my #CPAN modules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1qwzhc6/comment/o4t0p4a/