Kirrily Robert: September 2007 Archives

Ricardo Signes has been writing about embedding Perl code in Keynote presentations. The problem is that you can't easily do syntax highlighting in those presentations.

So now he's working on syntax to RTF tools. He's uploaded a synrtf tool to his hacks page.

Next up, I may attempt to write a very crude Vim colorscheme parser. With that done, it just becomes a matter of automating the highlighting of text in a Keynote text box.

jonswar is proposing a standard logging API:

This being Perl, there are many fine logging frameworks available: Log::Log4perl, Log::Dispatch, Log::Handler, Log::Agent, Log::Trivial, etc. So why do CPAN modules eschew the use of these and invent their own mechanisms that are almost guaranteed to be less powerful?

He proposes a module called Log::Any to standardise how CPAN modules log errors, debugging information, and so forth.

Read more over on use.perl.org.

Over on use.perl.org, Brian Cassidy wrote about a YAML-formatted changelog he happened across:

This makes total sense -- Machine parsable high-level changelogs. I'd love to see a spec created for this. A quick poll of #perl-qa shows that some other folks agree. I searched around but couldn't find any existing specs -- any takers? :)

Later, Roland Giersig takes up the challenge with a first attempt at a spec.

I must say, I'd be all in favour of machine-parsable changelogs. It'd make CPAN Watch much more automatable.