Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-11-02 Thread O. STeffen BEYer
Hello Aristotle, I'll answer below: 2009/11/3 Aristotle Pagaltzis > * O. STeffen BEYer [2009-10-13 15:30]: > > I'd rather have the user decide what he/she wants, as in this attached > file. > > That’s the wrong way to think about it. > > OK, hyperbole; it’s not *wrong*. But it’s very incomplet

RE: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread Burak Gürsoy
> -Original Message- > From: Aristotle Pagaltzis [mailto:pagalt...@gmx.de] > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:18 AM > To: module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http:// > > * Burak Gürsoy [2009-11-02 19:10]: > > (IMHO) I only care to download the

Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* O. STeffen BEYer [2009-10-13 15:30]: > I'd rather have the user decide what he/she wants, as in this attached file. That’s the wrong way to think about it. OK, hyperbole; it’s not *wrong*. But it’s very incomplete. Don’t forget that there are a lot of people who might merely want to use some

Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Burak Gürsoy [2009-11-02 19:10]: > (IMHO) I only care to download the repository only if I am > interested in patching/developing the code. If I just want to > take a peek I don't bother installing a VCS client and/or > cloning the repo. You don’t, therefore no one else should? Regards, -- A

RE: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread Burak Gürsoy
> -Original Message- > From: David Cantrell [mailto:da...@cantrell.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:36 PM > To: module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http:// > > I think that non-http(s) URLs are perfectly legal (eg ftp://) and are > Jus

Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:13:05AM +0200, Burak G?rsoy wrote: > I see that some modules have git:// protocol as the repo address in META.yml > and/or Pod. I don't think this is useful to anybody since we don't see the > address at all in cpan shell and hardly anyone downloads and checks every >