Re: Preventing PAUSE from indexing a module?

--As of October 13, 2006 9:45:15 PM -0400, David Golden is alleged to have said: On 10/13/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to rectify this, shall I simply patch the spec as follows? Please. It's going to be easier to patch the spec than update all the tools. --As for t

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

--As of February 19, 2007 2:15:33 PM +0800, imacat is alleged to have said: Whether the army is good or bad may not be the subject here. But the modern economics system is complex. This kind of treatment against the army is not fair. --As for the rest, it is mine. 'Fair' is not the ques

Re: Naming help - XML "plist" (Apple/Mac/iTunes)

--As of June 13, 2008 8:35:36 PM -0500, Chris Dolan is alleged to have said: Note that plists can also be stored in a binary format; would you want to support that also? If so, how about Parse::ApplePlist? I don't know anything about the binary format but its existence does argue against t

Re: Naming help - XML "plist" (Apple/Mac/iTunes)

--As of June 14, 2008 12:36:45 PM -0700, Bill Ward is alleged to have said: Only thing is, my utility only parses them, it doesn't write them. PLists are strongly typed and Perl isn't, so generating a PList out of an arbitrary Perl data structure is a little problematic... need to use a regex t

Naming, reorganizing, and feature creep.

Ok, so in the course of a project at work I've written a bunch of modules for reading and tracing mail logs. So far, I've only put a few of the base modules on CPAN as Mail::Log::Parse and friends. Basic description of the ::Parse:: modules is that they parse the logs for you: The output is in a

Re: "a lot of controversy" about Module::Build

--As of April 8, 2009 4:49:56 PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm is alleged to have said: But, anyway, is it a problem we really need to be inflicting on new Perl users? Do they have to care if "somebody might be running 5.8.8 somewhere"? With 5.10.0 out for well over a year now? --As for the rest, it

Re: "a lot of controversy" about Module::Build

--As of April 8, 2009 7:58:33 PM -0500, Dave Rolsky is alleged to have said: I, as a module author providing you a free product, don't have to give a damn. Realistically, authors give some amount of damn, but maybe not a full "I'll support Perl 5.004 for the poor slobs using ancient Red Hat boxe

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

--As of May 26, 2009 12:33:08 PM -0700, Bill Ward is alleged to have said: How would you feel about ref($foo)->new(); --As for the rest, it is mine. As a clone? Off the top of my head, I can't see what's that doing. A bit of thinking (and reading) about ref() makes it understandable, if no

Re: Anomaly in Build test

On Fri, August 21, 2009 9:48 am, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Hi, > > When I run `prove -l` on my module, everything is fine. But when I run > `Build test`, I get a warning. Why is there a difference? Are there any differences between your /lib/ directory and your /blib/ directory? Daniel T. Staal

Re: Anomaly in Build test

On Fri, August 21, 2009 10:32 am, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Daniel Staal wrote: >> Are there any differences between your /lib/ directory and your /blib/ >> directory? > > Yes, plenty. But all the tests are in t/ But 'prove -l' includes /lib/, while 'Build t

Re: XML::Rules new versions not seen by CPAN shell

On Wed, August 26, 2009 3:23 pm, David Cantrell wrote: > Terribly hard to measure, but I'd imagine that almost no authors have > up-to-date versions of: > Module::Build > Module::Install > ExtUtils::MakeMaker > CPAN.pm > > just like they don't have up-to-date versions of any other stable

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

--As of February 21, 2010 1:43:58 PM +1300, Lutz Gehlen is alleged to have said: Therefore I would like to define my error messages in some sprintf format way at a central place and use these templates when the time has come. I have written a module Exception::Class::EasyThrow that does this. H

Re: Goodbye Perl6::Say

On Thu, April 15, 2010 4:09 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Honestly, if you're setting up a blank machine next week with less than > 5.10, not finding Perl6::Say in the index is going to be the least of > your problems anyway. But you should be able to purchase some > complaint tokens if you really n

Re: Which Build Module?

On Tue, July 6, 2010 1:39 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > IMO, preferring core modules is like using the same size bolt for > *every* part of a car (from dashboard to engine mounts) simply because > (despite having a full complement of welding, cutting, and forming > tools), the drill press just happen

Re: Module name suggestions: A proper IO::Socket for IPv4/IPv6 duallity

--As of September 6, 2010 2:58:36 PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans is alleged to have said: In order to provide an easy transition period, I'd also support additional IO::Socket::INET options where they still make sense; e.g. accepting {Local/Peer}Port as a synonym for {Local/Peer}Service. The upsh

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:18 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > The savings for going to .bz2 over .gz for source code are fairly > insignificant. We're talking about source code for a perl module. Is > your stuff tens of megabytes in size? That's a lot of code if so. I could > understand if you we

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:57 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync between > mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat > on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the > mirror d

Re: contemplating module libraries

I'll take a stab at starting a reply for this... On Fri, December 10, 2010 4:22 am, David Christensen wrote: > module-authors: > > I have a library of CPAN modules that I've turned into a CPAN bundle: > > > http://search.cpan.org/~dpchrist/Bundle-Dpchrist-1.044/lib/Bundle/Dpchrist.pm > > If I'm r

Re: RFC: module namespace - librados bindings

On Wed, August 31, 2011 11:52 pm, mlsorensen wrote: > > > I think this is pretty straightforward, but seeing how I'm new I'd > like to follow instructions and double check that I'm on the right track > here. I'm developing some perl bindings for the Ceph (filesystem) > project's RADOS library. I'v

Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)

--As of September 6, 2011 8:52:32 PM -0700, macke...@animalhead.com is alleged to have said: If one of the 8630 CPAN authors happens to need work of the type that this "spamming" company is offering, and finds work with them, I for one consider that a good trade vs. we other 8629 having to main

Re: Please help me name my text template module...

On 2012-10-09 15:07, Brian Katzung wrote: My previous message appears to have gone to the bit bucket (no sign of it in almost 24 hours; my apologies if this pops up as a repost). My "yet another text template module" has these as some major design goals: * Absolutely bare-bones synta

Naming help (Semantic Diff)

I'm working on a module to create 'semantic' diffs - changes by phrase/sentence, not just line-by-line. (Better for natural language documents, instead of code.) Current repository is here: I've developed under the name Text::SemanticDiff, but th

Re: Turning numbers into words

--As of July 10, 2014 1:32:23 PM -0700, Buddy Burden is alleged to have said: ether, So, I know how to turn "36" into "thirty-six" (Lingua::EN::Numbers) and "22" into "twenty-second" (ditto), and "3/4" into "three quarters" (Lingua::EN::Fractions) and even "1994" into "nineteen ninety-four" (

Re: [Request for Comments] How to properly handle three-dotted-decimals $VERSIONS (e.g '0.0.7') of .pm files and distributions?

--As of May 31, 2015 7:44:38 PM +0300, Shlomi Fish is alleged to have said: By all means, if this notation is undesirable, its rejection should be made more explicit rather than I hear about it years after the fact. Note that I happen to find '0.0.7' much more user-friendly than '0.07' and w

Re: [Request for Comments] How to properly handle three-dotted-decimals $VERSIONS (e.g '0.0.7') of .pm files and distributions?

--As of June 1, 2015 2:11:47 PM +0100, David Cantrell is alleged to have said: And given that there is no standard way of assigning meaning to the various levels of dottiness, using version strings with multiple dots in is pointless. If there were any benefit at all from using them I might be m

Re: cpan name spaces (was: Re: Re3: Re: How about class Foo {...} definition for Perl? )

--As off Monday, January 19, 2004 11:03 AM -0600, Chris Josephes is alleged to have said: I have enough trouble remembering APIs without trying to remember whether I need to load something in namespace of William, Will, Bill, Willie, or Willy. Why would that be? I mean, the odds are if you're d

Re: float / fractional rounding functions

--As of Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:29 AM -0600, Eric Wilhelm is alleged to have said: I was thinking of implementing this as CAD::Calc::Round, CAD::Calc::Round::Float, and CAD::Calc::Round::Fractional, where CAD::Calc::Round acts as the front-end and decides between the Float and Fractional modul

Re: New module: CGI::Tooltip

--As of Friday, June 18, 2004 2:35 PM -0400, Randy W. Sims is alleged to have said: I like HTML::Tooltip. That would be the first place I would look. It has nothing to do with CGI and Javascript is an implementation detail. HTML::Tooltip describes the module perfectly IMHO. --As for the rest, it

Re: [Module::Build] requires_one_of

--As of Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:42 AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis is alleged to have said: This is not at all comparable to the situation on CPAN. You can't just s/XML::Parser/XML::LibXML/g f.ex and expect it to work. Modules must be written to the interface of the module they use, and if they can pick

Re: Namespace for EUI related modules

--As of Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:35 PM +, Suresh Govindachar is alleged to have said: I see your point. EditableUI is more descriptive but it does not reveal that it does not just concern an user interface but also concerns application modules with an editable user interface. EditableUI