Perl interest group within HP?

[Geoff Gariepy]

I've been working here at HP, writing Perl code for Win32 for nearly 10 years.

In all of this time, I have not managed to find a group of folks doing similar things.

Is there such a group? I have Perl modules I would like to share.

--Geoff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Geoff:

There is (of course):

http://www.pm.org/

As for sharing, you can certainly post modules that you want to share, here in the HP-UX forum or in the companion Microsoft family forum of the ITRC.

If the code you have developed is for Windows, you might want to contribute it to CPAN, perhaps in particular:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/22_Microsoft_Windows_Modules/

Regards!

...JRF...

[Geoff Gariepy]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm familiar with the PerlMongers and CPAN. My main question is about submitting modules to CPAN that were created on HP company time.

There are several modules I have authored that would possibly be of general interest, but the one that I have in mind at present is a wrapper around the PowerShell scripting environment for Perl which
a. Calls a PowerShell cmdlet or script from Perl
b. Can invoke PowerShell plug-ins
c. Can capture the output from PowerShell and transmorgrify it into a Perl hash structure

If you're not familiar with PowerShell, it is Microsoft's new management tool. And to put it bluntly, in my opinion it sucks. Using PowerShell from Perl makes it, uh, suck less. Of course, reasonable people will disagree with my evaluation of PowerShell -- I try not to get religious about these things -- but I think a general purpose Win32::PowerShell module might find widespread use...

...but do I dare release it to the Perl community at large? What would the lawyers say?

--Geoff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Geoff:

> My main question is about submitting modules to CPAN that were created on HP company time. ...but do I dare release it to the Perl community at large? What would the lawyers say?

It sounds as if you need to ask your internal HP management and/or HP Human Resources :-)

As for your modules, in my opinion, a contribution of them to CPAN to augment the Windows PowerShell capabilities would be very nice!

Regards and Good Luck!

...JRF...

[Geoff Gariepy]

Thanks for the replies!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

If you are happy with the answers you received, please read the following about reopening threads and assigning points:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#41
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

Regards!

...JRF...