Article needed: Perl & Linux

[dnmfarrell]

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Not quite sure what angle to take with this one, maybe:

• tips for the typical state of Perl on major distros (e.g. "sometimes you have to install the perl-core package").
• building your own perl from source on Linux
• running linux programs from Perl (e.g. system, exec, Capture::Tiny et al)
• writing perl programs that read from STDIN (so can be piped program output)

[oylenshpeegul]

I wonder if your second bullet could be several articles.

1. Use /usr/bin/perl and modules with your distro's package manager.
2. Use /usr/bin/perl and modules with local::lib.
3. Install your own perl(s) and modules with plenv.
4. Install your own perl(s) and modules with perlbrew.
5. Install your own perl(s) from source (probably /usr/local/bin/perl).

Or maybe it's just one article with several parts. But number 1 varies by distro, so this could get messy quick.

[dnmfarrell]

I like these angles, I wonder what people want when they search for "Linux Perl"?

[briandfoy]

I've long wanted a table that shows the distro and the command I need to run to get perl and the perl docs. I'd also like to know what the stable perl is and how to get the latest perl, if possible.

The plenv, perlbrew, and other things are largely agnostic to the operating system. Those could be their own articles.

[Leont]

I've seen some good ideas here. but except for «Tips for the typical state of Perl on major distros» (which really boils down to "Red Hat messed up") there's nothing linux specific about them.

[ibrierley]

Out of interest, what format do articles need to be in, markdown for example ? Will they just be github pages iyswim.

[briandfoy]

@ibrierley We use Hugo to generate the site. You can see examples of the markdown in the files under content/. Once you fork the repo, run bin/new_article to create the stub.

There’s also https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-write-your-first-article-for-perl-com/