Perl Console 0.3 released
A new version of PerlConsole is available. As you can see in the changelog, lots of goodness with this release comes to you (~/.perlconsolerc rules, thanks to S. Zachariah Sprackett for his patch).
After reading the source code of Devel::REPL and learning from it (this is really a great library, congrats to mst) I decided not to orphan Perl Console. Yes, that was a possibility as Devel::REPL provides anything you need to build a console (and comes with “re.pl” which actually is a console itself). I decided not to give it up for one reason: Devel::REPL is great, and better written than Perl Console (it supports plugins and profiles and is Moose-based) but, it’s slow.
When you launch it, you have to wait a couple of seconds before the console prompts you. This is because of Moose I suppose. I know that’s not blocker as a console is a development tool, but I feel like some of PerlConsole’s users would like to have the choice between a full featured, extensible and Moose-base console that’s slow, and a light one that is basic in design and implementation.
I backported one of the most interesting plugin of Devel::REPL to PerlConsole, being the console’s lexical environement. Devel::REPL did a great thing there, using Lexical::Persistence to simulate a namespace in the console.
Feel free to give your feedback about this, I wonder if there’s still an audience for PerlConsole when Devel::REPL is in the town. I think so, maybe I’m wrong, then tell me.
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