{"id":933,"date":"2011-07-01T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=933"},"modified":"2018-01-30T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:42:10","slug":"make-mageia-jq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/07\/01\/make-mageia-jq\/","title":{"rendered":"They make Mageia: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Quelin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that things are well on their way and that Mageia 1 is there, it’s time to discover some more about the persons that are making this a reality.<\/p>\n

Today, this is about J\u00e9r\u00f4me; thanks to him for being the first!<\/p>\n

\"J\u00e9r\u00f4me<\/a>

CC By-NC-SA, Some rights reserved by @rgs<\/p><\/div>\n

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Who are you? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?<\/h3>\n

I am J\u00e9r\u00f4me Quelin<\/a> (aka jq), 34 years old. I am married and a father of a little boy. We are living in Lyon, France, where I’m working at Renault Trucks.<\/p>\n

How\/where do you contribute to Mageia? what else do you contribute to, and why?<\/h3>\n

I am the maintainer of Mageia’s Perl<\/a> stack. This consists of Perl itself, and of all the CPAN<\/a> modules available within Mageia.<\/p>\n

Note: Perl is a high-level programming language<\/a> in which applications and systems can be written; a lot of Mageia relies on this.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am also a Perl developer, owning a few modules on CPAN<\/a> and contributing to some others.<\/p>\n

So, what’s special about Perl in Mageia? what can one do with it? what’s available?<\/h3>\n

Perl has nothing fancy on Mageia, it’s usually the latest one which is available (note: Mageia 1 ships with Perl 5.12.3 since 5.14.0 was too late in our release cycle).<\/p>\n

But Mageia shines on the number of CPAN modules available at the tip of your fingers: around 2,500 distributions, accounting for ~17,000 modules. That’s a little bit less than 20% of CPAN, but that’s quite huge! I don’t know what the other distributions are shipping, but I think it’s a lot less.<\/p>\n

All the latest & greatest modules are in: Moose<\/a>, POE<\/a>, Dancer<\/a>, Catalyst<\/a>, Dist-Zilla, etc. – you name it.<\/p>\n

All those modules are of course updated on a regular basis, integrated with the system libraries… and sometimes even fixed to make them compile (patches & bug reports of course sent upstream).<\/p>\n

Mageia also has a great tool to maintain the cpan modules up to date: magpie<\/a>. It shouldn’t be too hard to add support for other distributions, if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

For instance, to install a given Perl module, just do:<\/p>\n

$ sudo urpmi 'perl(Foo::Bar)'<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and if the module is missing, you can open a bug report<\/a> and we’ll work on packaging it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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