ucodery, to python
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Very cool to see some of the hard work we’ve been doing at for packaging with Trusted Publishing being made available to everyone today

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-04-17-expanding-trusted-publisher-support/

mjgardner, (edited ) to webdev
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@Perl After reading https://doi.org/10.1145/3386327, I’m imagining an alternate #WebDev history where #Netscape hired #LarryWall instead of @BrendanEich. (The latter previously worked for co-founder Jim Clark at #SGI, so as always it’s who you know.)

No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.

mjgardner,
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@massa @KC1PYT @Perl @BrendanEich That’s well before . Was it using ’s browser scripting that only worked in ?

keithzg, to PostgreSQL
@keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca avatar

I am having an absolutely terrible time trying to get ActiveState Perl installed. Literally my opinion of #PostgreSQL has dropped dramatically due to it being a stated requirement for Windows builds, it's that unacceptably bad...

keithzg,
@keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca avatar

Are there any Perl dists for Windows that I can actually just . . . like . . . install normally? Or can anyone explain to me how to install #ActiveState #Perl with this bizarre, seemingly git-backed setup they have which seems to just result in a folder empty other than a single .yaml file (and for which the uninstall command for the "state" utility I seem to be supposed to use just throws an error and gives up)?

d, to random
@d@wafer.baby avatar

Why is JavaScript

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@jesse @genehack @d #ActiveState knew no fear—they made a #Microsoft Active Scripting (formerly #ActiveX Scripting) engine called #PerlScript. You could use it in #Windows Scripting Host or embed #Perl in HTML <script> tags that #InternetExplorer would run if the machine had PerlScript installed.

I don’t know if their hosted ActiveState Platform will build it for you now, though.

ovid, to random
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We just bumped a client from version 5.16 to Perl version 5.32.

It feels great to be updating things to a modern Perl.

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@fuzzix @ovid And there’s always #ActiveState #Perl v5.36, but it has a pretty onerous free usage limit of one copy running at a time: https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/

Otherwise it’s time to pony up: https://www.activestate.com/solutions/pricing/

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@ovid @fuzzix I don’t do either, but the main thing is you use ’s package manager instead of ’s full inclusion of support and a C compiler toolchain

mjgardner,
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

@ovid @fuzzix (#ActiveState’s solution is a little more involved than that because it spins up project-specific language environments. So it’s more like #Carton + #perlbrew in the #Perl world.)

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