On 2013-01-08, at 1:31 PM, David Nicol wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Olaf Alders wrote:
> > uh, CPAN /is/ a public version control system. You have a favorite VCS and
> > want to make diffs easily? Download, unpack, init, add, commit, work, diff.
>
> That doesn't sound easy a
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:28 PM, John M. Gamble wrote:
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> It was not intended as a constantly synchronized central repository of all
> of CPAN.
>
That's what I meant, and it was something of a straw man.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Olaf Alders wrote:
> > uh, CPAN /is/ a public version control system. You have a favorite VCS
> and want to make diffs easily? Download, unpack, init, add, commit, work,
> diff.
>
> That doesn't sound easy at all. ;) For example, if you want to send a
> simple do
On Tue, January 8, 2013 12:14 pm, Olaf Alders wrote:
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> On 2013-01-08, at 1:03 PM, David Nicol wrote:
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>> On the other hand, a comprehensive "CPAN by git" as an additional CPAN
>> feature would have a measure of awesome to it, as an alternate
>> distribution and synchronization metho
On 2013-01-08, at 1:03 PM, David Nicol wrote:
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> > Recently I checked and only 50% of the CPAN distributions have a link
> > to a public version control system:
> > http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/01/50-of-the-new-cpan-uploads-lack-a-repository-link.html
>
> uh, CPAN /is/ a public
> > Recently I checked and only 50% of the CPAN distributions have a link
> > to a public version control system:
> >
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/01/50-of-the-new-cpan-uploads-lack-a-repository-link.html
>
> uh, CPAN /is/ a public version control system. You have a favorite VCS a
On Tue, January 8, 2013 10:43 am, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:06:31AM -0600, John M. Gamble wrote:
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>> I think the finger should be pointed at h2xs, at least as it stands now.
>> A
>> programmer new to CPAN won't know about the META information, and h2xs
>> just isn't orient
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:06:31AM -0600, John M. Gamble wrote:
> I think the finger should be pointed at h2xs, at least as it stands now. A
> programmer new to CPAN won't know about the META information, and h2xs
> just isn't oriented that way.
I think the finger should be pointed at perlnewmod.
On Tue, January 8, 2013 5:15 am, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> those of you who read blogs.perl.org probably already saw my posts,
> but I guess there are many others
> on this list who are not reading that site.
>
> Recently I checked and only 50% of the CPAN distributions have a link
> to a public
