Release 0.21

Perlbrew Release 0.21

perlbrew 0.21 features these major changes:

• Improved perlbrew list command.
• Improved install command. Now takes an archive file path perlbrew install /path/to/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz
• Fixed a bug that perlbrew install URL might install to a wrong destination directory.
• Fixed the --as option that was broken since 0.20 (RT 68241)
• website update mechanism

perlbrew list command improvements

The output of perlbrew list is slightly improved. A version number is displayed for those installations which cannot be told the version numbers from their names. For example:

> perlbrew list
* perl-5.12.3
  perl-5.13.10
  perl-5.14.0-RC2
  perl-blead (5.14.0)
  perl-v5.14.0-RC1-8-g2cf7ccf
  /usr/bin/perl (5.10.0)

The version number is acquired from perl -e 'print $]', therefore it does not contain any RC number or git commit sha1.

Website Update mechanism

For those who are interested in publishing contents to http://perlbrew.pl, the website is basically semi-automatic synchronized with perlbrew github wiki. One should be able to just edit the wiki content and wait momentarily for the update. Several points to be noticed:

• Make sure you use "markdown" syntax. Other formats are not supported.
• If you use git access, the file name extension has to be .md.
• Page can be linked by their names, just put them in double square brackets, for example: [[Home]], or [[Release-0.21]].
• Github flavored markdown has no effect -- the render-er is Text::Markdown.

To preview it on your own, do the following:

echo Text::Markdown Text::Xslate IO::All | cpanm
git clone git://github.com/gugod/www.perlbrew.pl.git
cd www.perlbrew.pl
make
open public/YOUR-PAGE-NAME.html

The command make should pull the latest wiki content and start generating HTML files from there. HTML files are generated under public/ with matching file names, except the .md extension is replaced with .html. For example, these two are matching pages:

• https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/wiki/Reinstall-All-Modules-On-New-Perl
• http://www.perlbrew.pl/Reinstall-All-Modules-On-New-Perl.html

Notice the homepage is named index.md but not Home.md, which is the landing page for Github wiki.