Re: Naming Proposal: WWW::Patent::Page (continued from earlier at comp.lang.perl.modules)

2005-02-21 Thread Andy Lester
appears to be the same hang I experienced in t/local/back on Windows XP. A simple patch to t/local/back.t that fixes this hang is given at: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=9026 but has not yet been applied to WWW-Mechanize. Version 1.11_02 just got uploaded to CPAN. Should handle the "can't

Re: Net::Ftp use proxy et al...

2005-02-21 Thread Sam Vilain
Linda W wrote: Might it not be "useful" if Net::FTP could use an ftp_proxy, transparently, if one was set in the environment? Net::FTP couldn't provide its entire API if proxied; after all, the proxy is pretty-printing the directories into HTML so they look nice in a browser. Just ask the authors o

Re: Naming Proposal: WWW::Patent::Page (continued from earlier at comp.lang.perl.modules)

2005-02-21 Thread Andrew Savige
--- Wanda Anon wrote: > Mech is great, but last I checked, did not pass all tests on > cygwin because of the proxy strategy in testing. I'm not familiar with the cygwin test failures, but this test failure: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/185037 appears to be the same hang I exp

Re: Naming Proposal: WWW::Patent::Page (continued from earlier at comp.lang.perl.modules)

2005-02-21 Thread Wanda Anon
Comments interspersed. --- Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:30:01PM -0800, Wanda Anon > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have written a new module, WWW::Patent::Page, > and > > propose to submit it to CPAN. Your comments would > be > > appreciated. > > First,

Re: Naming Proposal: WWW::Patent::Page (continued from earlier at comp.lang.perl.modules)

2005-02-21 Thread Andy Lester
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:30:01PM -0800, Wanda Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have written a new module, WWW::Patent::Page, and > propose to submit it to CPAN. Your comments would be > appreciated. First, please start it out with Module::Starter to get the basic framework in place. > #

Naming Proposal: WWW::Patent::Page (continued from earlier at comp.lang.perl.modules)

2005-02-21 Thread Wanda Anon
I have written a new module, WWW::Patent::Page, and propose to submit it to CPAN. Your comments would be appreciated. Does the name seem reasonable? I am happy to take suggestions. I think it is reasonable to have a "Patent" namespace in WWW, since much patent information is available on the WWW

Re: CPAN cruft cleanup?

2005-02-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Linda W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-21 03:32]: > Is there any good reason why I would need to keep versions > older than about a year or two around? You don't. Nothing deleted dies anyway; it just goes to the afterlife at BackPAN. In order to facilitate the CPAN grep and diff tools you should

Re: lib::http - Using virtually a Perl library from the Internet with the HTTP protocol.

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Dolan
Check out PAR. I believe it can do exactly what you are describing. It resembles Java's JAR concept, and it supports the ability specify remote archives of packages. Chris On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Graciliano M. P. wrote: Felow PM Authors, Recently I was developing a new module, called lib: