Perlbrew Release 0.21

perlbrew 0.21 features these major changes:

Improved perlbrew list command.
Improved install command. Now takes an archive file path perlbrew install /path/to/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz
Fixed a bug that perlbrew install URL might install to a wrong destination directory.
Fixed the --as option that was broken since 0.20 (RT 68241)
website update mechanism

perlbrew list command improvements

The output of perlbrew list is slightly improved. A version number is displayed for those installations which cannot be told the version numbers from their names. For example:

> perlbrew list
* perl-5.12.3
  perl-5.13.10
  perl-5.14.0-RC2
  perl-blead (5.14.0)
  perl-v5.14.0-RC1-8-g2cf7ccf
  /usr/bin/perl (5.10.0)

The version number is acquired from perl -e 'print $]', therefore it does not contain any RC number or git commit sha1.

Website Update mechanism

For those who are interested in publishing contents to http://perlbrew.pl, the website is basically semi-automatic synchronized with perlbrew github wiki. One should be able to just edit the wiki content and wait momentarily for the update. Several points to be noticed:

Make sure you use "markdown" syntax. Other formats are not supported.
If you use git access, the file name extension has to be .md.
Page can be linked by their names, just put them in double square brackets, for example: [[Home]], or [[Release-0.21]].
Github flavored markdown has no effect -- the render-er is Text::Markdown.

To preview it on your own, do the following:

echo Text::Markdown Text::Xslate IO::All | cpanm
git clone git://github.com/gugod/www.perlbrew.pl.git
cd www.perlbrew.pl
make
open public/YOUR-PAGE-NAME.html

The command make should pull the latest wiki content and start generating HTML files from there. HTML files are generated under public/ with matching file names, except the .md extension is replaced with .html. For example, these two are matching pages:

Notice the homepage is named index.md but not Home.md, which is the landing page for Github wiki.