App-perlbrew VS roast

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.

Add more IO::Path::parent tests #801: merged 2022-02-19

23. Raku - $79,448

Pakku is a package manager for the Raku Programming Language. Latest releases of Pakku are part of Pakku Celastrina version family. Celastrina name means elegant and beutiful, So I will take the opportunity to introduce how elegant IMO Pakku handles Raku distributions.

At the last European Perl Conference I proposed to change the name of "Perl 6". After a lot of discussion, it was decided that it was going to be called the Raku Programming Language.

Raku note: This language has no length method on strings, because in Unicode world it is super confusing. Instead there are separate methods to ask precisely about amount of characters, amount of code points and amount of bytes.

Elizabeth Mattijsen reports on all recent developments around Rakudo, an implementation of the Raku Programming Language.

The raku.org website.

This became one of the first things that needed to be done, to be able to say the new implementation would be matching the old. During the development of these tests, it became clear there were some inconsistencies in the existing implementation, and worse: outright bugs.