Re: IniConf.pm
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:04:54 -0400, Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Andreas J. Koenig" wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:29:12 -0500, Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > Andreas, >> > I've taken over IniConf.pm from Scott Hutton. I've been trying to track >> > him down for almost a year, with no success. I've finally decided to >> > just upload what I've been working on. Unfortunately, the index still >> > lists Scott's version as the definitive one, and does not list my new >> > one. What is the procedure for getting that fixed? >> >> Just telling me is enough. I trust that Scott (CC'd) will be happy that >> somebody cares for his module. I have now changed the database and in a >> few hours the news will have propagated throughout the upload server. > One more request, and hopefully I'll stop bugging you about this. > I've uploaded a final version of IniConf.pm which basically tells people > to start using Config::IniFiles. I was wondering if we could get Scott's > old versions deleted from CPAN. I've been unable to contact him for > about 2 years now, and I don't think he cares any more. Seems to make sense to me as his latest upload is from 1997 and I haven't heard anything back from him. I'm going to schedule them for deletion, the deletion will happen about three days from now. -- andreas
Re: new module Convert::Scalar
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:46:06AM +0200, "Andreas J. Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd say, go find the other untainting module and use that. If it > >really doesn't exist, I know that mod_perl ships with soemthing like > >that. > The other untainting module stringifies everything (but doesn't need a C compiler), so I there is no real 1-1 correspondence. > On the utf8 stuff I can say that recent discussions on the Perl > Conference made it very obvious that most of it is broken and anything > you put in a module now will not work over the long run. So maybe > better keep that module somewhat private or give it a short lifetime > in the manpage. Is utf8 going to go away, after it has just been added? If you mean the just-recently-documented utf8_upgrade (et al.) functions will go away, I have no problems with that and will replace it with my own. However, since the functionality to do utf8/iso88591 conversion has just been removed from perl (was still there in 5.6, removed in the repository) to make room for modules implementing it, I don't think the need for (something like) Convert::Scalar will go away soon. -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
