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Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis CPANHQ a community-driven, meta-data-enhanced interface to CPAN. Benefits to the Perl Community The current CPAN interfaces http://search.cpan.org/ kobesearch, and the rest of the CPAN services that various individuals have set up are not integrated, are not based on enough meta-data, are not enough community-driven and are generally lacking. As a result of all this, some people started the "Rethinking CPAN" effort: http://www.google.com/search ... read more |
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Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500. Synopsis Develop a powerful Foreign Function Interface for Perl 5, similar to Python's ctypes. Benefits to the Perl Community ctypes provides a very handy way to call hard-coded subroutines in shared libraries, but only for Python. Having a similar module for Perl will benefit Perl 5 programmers who will be able to call subroutines in C and similar compiled languages from their Perl ... read more |
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Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates from Ingy. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi No updates from Grant Manager. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates from Schwern. h3. "Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://www.perlfoundation.org/vadim_konovalov_perl_cross_compilation_for_linux_and_wince Vadim Konovalov No updates from Vadim. If you know Vadim, please poke him. We need to know what is happening with him. h3. ... read more |
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Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates, this time. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan Haggai has been improving the new named argument features and adding lots of automated tests. A new release of Archive::Zip, with many of his improvements, is now available on the CPAN. Currently he is updating the POD to reflect the changes. Next he will ... read more |