App-perlbrew VS blogs.perl.org

Perlbrew on github

Note that this Oracle Linux VM comes with Perl 5.26, if you want a more recent version, you could use use Perlbrew.

Install your own Perl with perlbrew, instead of using the system Perl. Then every needed dependency is installed in an isolated Perl with cpanm.

The final and most exciting way to call --init is with a Perl version number. When called with a version number, Plx will look for a Perl of the given version first in your PATH and otherwise via Perlbrew.

perlbrew is a command line tool to intall Perl on user directries. You can install any version of Perl on your user directries and use it.

Can't perlbrew be an option? AFAIK, it installs the Perl of your choice "next to" the Perl that comes with the OS, so both will continue to work.

The nice thing about DEV is that I can republish the articles I published elsewhere (e.g. on PerlMaven, on Code-Maven, or blogs.perl.org), and also I can set the canonical URL of each article on DEV to the original one on my blog. That way I get the visitors on DEV as well, but the 'Google juice' the articles receive will flow over to my sites. It seems like a win-win for DEV and authors who have blogs elsewhere. You can even configure DEV to pull your RSS feed and create drafts from your articles published elsewhere. I even started to republish the content of the Perl Weekly.

That kind of solution has been up and running on the site for maybe as much as 15 months. (For context, the site has been under my stewardship only since March 2020.) Only, it’s insufficient: it works maybe 80%, but was broken in not just subtle ways. (#415 is the least of them, though the most obvious.)

Interesting thread.

Maybe take a look at this GitHub issue to catch up on what has been going on in that area. In particular, the comments from ap explain why it's not as simple as you might think it is.

If your motivation is to improve the public image of perl in general, then consider that for many questions, perl monks, a site that didn't look good 20 years ago, ranks high in search results. Never mind that the regulars on that site are not exactly inviting either. For blog posts, it's blogs.perl.org, which doesn't even have https in this day and age. My point being that if sites like these are still coming up in search results, it doesn't really matter how good metacpan looks.

Check out blogs.perl.org for tidbits other Perl people find interesting.

There's already an issue about this. I guess you could ask there to see what the current situation is.