Hi,

Thanks for the review - feels almost as if I was there (couldn't make it
due to an unhappy incident between my laptop and an evil cup-of-coffee).

Regarding Fatpacker and XS - I think it's possible to use fatpacker to
create a 'lib' dir, and inside put all compiled XS to all platforms in
addition to the perl modules. Haven't tried it though.

Cheers,
  Ynon


On 30 July 2012 21:06, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> here I'm sharing some of my impressions and memoirs from the previous Tel
> Aviv
> mongers meeting:
>
> 1. Most people arrived before the schedule, but we still started late due
> to an
> active discussion that took place. We also finished kinda late, so no one
> went
> to the restaurant. Maybe it's the summer.
>
> 2. Sawyer mentioned that they have some Systems' Adminstration and QA
> openings
> at his current workplace, and that people can contact him about it (I hope
> it
> is OK to mention here). Since I am looking for that now, I already sent
> him my
> résumé and he forwarded it to QA.
>
> 3. The earlier discussion involved a discussion on why Jave is sometimes
> being
> preferred to Perl. One issue is that Java is much more stricter than Perl
> by
> default, and that you need to always play by the rules. Then, people
> mentioned
> that if you hire 10 developers to work with Java or with PHP, then you
> won't
> lose much if two of them become unavailable, while if you hire only two
> Perl
> developers, then you will be in trouble. Or at least that is what managers
> think.
>
> 4. Sawyer mentioned DDP there:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Printer
>
> One can do perl -MDDP and then do "::p $myvar" anywhere in the program.
> Later
> on I tried playing with it, but noticed that:
>
> 1. DDP.pm did not have POD on CPAN (but it did on github).
>
> 2. it didn't work for plain values.
>
> 3. Some of the colours did not work properly on my screen.
>
> So it seems kinda quirky.
>
> I mentioned https://metacpan.org/module/App::p which I was reminded of.
>
> ----
>
> 5. I enjoyed Sawyer's talk about the layout of a CPAN distribution (which
> was
> similar to what he presented in the last Israeli Perl workshop),
> and his later talk about FatPacker. With regards to Gabor's talk, he
> mentioned
> that he did not have enough time to prepare for it and that he decided to
> do a
> discussion instead, so it was rather disappointing (sorry!).
>
> 6. The FatPacker procedure seems to involve several manual steps, which
> I'm not
> sure if can be automated. It still seems useful
>
> 7. There was some discussion about whether FatPacker can handle XS-based
> modules and Sawyer said it could not. For that I guess, one will need to
> use
> PAR or a similar solution.
>
> -------------------
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
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