Acme::ReturnValues is back

domm on 2009-05-15T14:36:33

http://returnvalues.useperl.at

Now with a nice and shiny (-ish) design and with lots of false-positive crap stashed away to "Bad return values". As you might have expected, the most common "cool" return value is 42.

A tiny bit more context can be found here.

Next: set up a cronjob (but before that, write out which dists have already been checked, so we only check new uploads)

Other weird things to liven up a CPAN distro

oneiron on 2009-05-16T09:11:04

Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of it before and I'm a bit annoyed I didn't think of this when creating Acme::EyeDrops. :) You see, at the time, I did try to think of various little ways to liven up a CPAN distro, but, for A::E, only came up with:

• Tarball user/group names of arthur/dent
• When you run "perl Makefile.PL", a little Ascii Art camel is displayed
• When you run "make test", the test names form a haiku, for light relief while you wait

Weird file names

jjore on 2009-05-16T23:24:40

You could have weird file names like

'touch '$\2f'|'

or <> (if it's invisible to you, left chevron, right chevron aka diamond).

I apparently uh... "planned ahead" by ending most of my modules in something pithy, usually copied from somewhere that made me laugh.