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Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Benefits to the Perl Community CPAN::Forum has been around for several years now and it is linked from both major search engines but it is under utilized. Improving its interface will make it easier for users to ask questions regarding specific modules. The whole idea of CPAN::Forum was to provide an alternative to setting up ... read more |
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Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 1500 Synopsis Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. Benefits to the Perl Community Padre already has many features required for a text editor. Adding the debugging capabilities will allow any perl programmer to use the power of the built in debugger without the fear of the command line or ... read more |
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Name: John R. Hogerhuis Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to continue to use its favorite tool to solve problems on the Windows platform without giving up ... read more |
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Prepare for a big post! Here are the most recent updates from TPF running grants. "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl No updates this time. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Schwern update: TB2 development has been dead for the last few months, largely because I haven't been programming. I'm getting started again, I've been poking at the code again lately, and I'm making three changes to the way its developed. _1> Reigning in the TB2 ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2009. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. ... read more |