Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > I recommend using Google Code hosting at code.google.com instead. > Setup is trivial, as is adding people to the project. What's the advantage over sourceforge? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire I re

Re: Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
' is and change it to 'follow'. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a Womble with its nose chopped off.

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
llowing random people to trample all over my modules' names seems like a very good idea. If BYRNE wants to upload one of KBROWN's modules, then he should talk to KBROWN and become a co-maintainer or get KBROWN to hand over ownership. That's what we did when TJMATHER and I agr

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
, I think it's safe to assume that anyone using those platforms and perl will know what .. means and if they don't I'm sure you'll document it. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-08 Thread David Cantrell
ou're going to mess around under some pre-existing pragma's namespace like lib::anything would. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main or only aptitude is for marketing, drowned.

Re: lambda - a shortcut for sub {...}

2007-10-11 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > http://search.cpan.org/~ewilhelm/lambda-v0.0.1/lib/lambda.pm Shouldn't this really be under Acme::*? -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

Re: CPAN security

2007-10-12 Thread David Cantrell
user, rm -rf $HOME in the Makefile.PL is going to be pretty damned annoying. Ultimately, if you're paranoid about code you're getting from the interwebs, then you need to take the time to read and understand it all. Good luck :-) -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heret

Re: Spanish fiscal identifier validator

2007-10-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:20:09AM +0200, Xavier Noria wrote: > On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:07 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > >Locale::ES::Identifiers::... perhaps? > Good. I think there's the convention to put the country code to the > right: > Locale::Identifiers::ES Yes, goo

Re: Spanish fiscal identifier validator

2007-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Luis Tello wrote: > how does one unsubscribe? By following the instructions in the headers of every message. This is a common convention for mailing lists. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-

Re: Spanish fiscal identifier validator

2007-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:49:05PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote: > On 10/13/07, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Luis Tello wrote: > > > how does one unsubscribe? > > By following the instructions in the headers of

Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
ou will have noticed that there is a bootstrapping problem in using this from within a Makefile.PL - relax, it will come with a script to bundle itself in an inc/ directory. -- David Cantrell

Re: got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

2007-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
, then I will. Can't promise to remember to do it next time I build a test environment though, mind :-) Incidentally, the h2ph invocation should probably be clarified as $PREFIX/h2ph in the docs. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread David Cantrell
eem very useful. Put it in the docs instead. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X

Re: autoconf-like work in Build.PL - detecting OS features

2007-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
T. Sound sane? Not that you should expect this soon. VMS portability is more important right now, and is currently blocked on "VMS is scary, weird and foreign". Another possibility is that I should think more about Devel::CheckOS::OSFeatures::*. -- David Cantrell | top google result for

Re: Help with Test Failures

2007-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:38:23AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:26:19PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > Changing the topic somewhat, a really good module for pretending that > > various modules don't exist is Devel::Hide. The -from:children switc

Re: Help with Test Failures

2007-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
in t/10-Field-CIDR_List.t, you declare that you're going to run 6 tests, and then you either run 6 tests or you skip *7* tests. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Aluminum makes a nice hat. All paranoids will tell you that. But what most do not know Is reflections will show On the CIA's evil landsat.

Re: Help with Test Failures

2007-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
;t exist is Devel::Hide. The -from:children switch will even hide modules from child processes. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." > OTOH, being able to inline functions could be nice, yes. If I ever need to do that, I'll run my code through the C pre-processor before releasing it. --

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-08 Thread David Cantrell
-friendly. And it shouldn't have any effect on any change control system worthy of the name. > his concern is > other people affecting *his* choices. He only gets to dictate how I write my code if he's paying me. --

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-08 Thread David Cantrell
ok the time to read the documentation and try the code out, instead of just judging it by the version number. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

CPAN::FindDependencies version 2.0 is out

2007-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
a code gets pulled in when you make your users install a dependency. Re-using code is a Good Thing of course, but taken to extremes it can be a real pain in the arse for those for whom perl is just another environment that they have to support on their machines. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world

Re: Idea: Test::Bundle module

2007-12-30 Thread David Cantrell
the bundle. > The idea is good. I just have one simple bundle but I'd add that test to it. > About testing that all the modules are available on CPAN: > > How do you test locally? I'd make tests skip if they can't find a CPAN mirror. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Arbeit macht Alkoholiker

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
peaker thinks the week begins. If you mean the most recent Sunday in the past, then you say "last Sunday". The tricky one is "next Sunday". Towards the end of the week, say on a Friday or Saturday, "this Sunday" is in a day or two's time and "next Sund

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
ly wrong almost everywhere is only better than being inconsistently wrong. And if you think that "this Wednesday" means "this week's Wednesday" then you will be sometimes wrong and sometimes right. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Immigration: making Britain great since AD43

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
al user" is bad practice IMO. It relies on negative feedback from your users, instead of pro-actively fixing things. These days even Microsoft pays attention to at least some bug reports which come from people who have no intention of actually *using* their products. -- David Cantrell | Godles

Re: Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
ch broke my tests for some PostScripty stuff. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Deck of Cards: $1.29. "101 Solitaire Variations" book: $6.59. Cheap replacement for the one thing Windows is good at: priceless -- Shane Lazarus

Re: Namespace for new perl (chess) module

2008-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
similar is used for Go ratings, at least in Europe. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Today's previously unreported paraphilia is tomorrow's Internet sensation

Re: Namespace for new perl (chess) module

2008-02-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:34:32AM +0100, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote: > * On 2008-02-04 David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Daniel T. Staal wrote: > > >My first thought, after looking through your Wikipedia link, is to ask if > > >there is anything specifcall

Re: license in META.yml

2008-03-31 Thread David Cantrell
it is quite wrong (this is the bug) to say that there is a list of valid options decreed by Ken Williams. How I licence my code is no business of his (and I'm sure he wouldn't claim that it is) and if I want to create Dave's Fabulous Software Licence then I am free to do so. So there

Re: RFC: URI::cpan

2008-04-01 Thread David Cantrell
ns No. There's nothing badly-formed about something that doesn't have a META.yml. Plenty of stuff on the CPAN pre-dates it, and as recent discussion on this 'ere list have shown, it is poorly specified and documented. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age What is the di

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
t's not very interesting or > useful for an author to list everything he uses. Tk and Catalyst are good > examples. Catalyst is an excellent example. I'm sure it has gone through at least one fairly major re-organisation of its distributions at some point. -- David Cantrell | Enfor

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
tutils::MakeMaker to be installed Actually, it's this different: $ corelist ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::MakeMaker was first released with perl 5 $ corelist Module::Build Module::Build was first released with perl 5.009004 -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
o tests. The results that I just looked at (picking some at random) were pretty clear about that. If you can point us at the specific test result that you're got an issue with then I'm sure someone can either explain it or point you at the tester in question. -- David Cantrell | top google

Re: Find A Tester

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
added to "Notes for CPAN authors" at the bottom of the page: http://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused prim

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
ualisation even that isn't an insurmountable problem. Perhaps someone who has more time available than I do (and who knows more about packaging) should apply for a perl foundation grant to get this going :-) -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

Re: Fwd: New CPANTS metrics

2008-06-10 Thread David Cantrell
will do wonders for your blood pressure. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Repent through spending

Re: Exporter::Safe?

2008-06-24 Thread David Cantrell
g called # from here use Module::That::Exports::Stuff; # except that now it doesn't, bwahahahaha! Import::import( from => 'Module::That::Exports::Stuff', subs => [qw(set get bet wet)] ); -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done

Re: Proposal: Test::Refcount

2008-07-14 Thread David Cantrell
riting tests. Can't you use Devel::Peek to get the refcount? -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

Re: Begging for money - too tacky?

2008-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
le alternatives. IIRC Amazon have a donation thing. If you have an Amazon wishlist, point people at that too. About half the donations I get for CPANdeps are in the form of books and DVDs. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age If you have received this email in error, please add som

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
because of ExtUtils::MakeMaker bugs, so if EU::MM is "too broken" then M::B has to also be too broken because it is *more* broken. Which is a shame, cos M::B is a good idea. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
to another, and older versions of make may support fewer features than whatever version you (and Schwern) are developing against. GNU have even managed to break *cp* and *rm* from one release to the next, so I treat GNU make with suspicion - it's far more complex, so far more likely to get

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
Elliot Shank wrote: David Cantrell wrote: As a counter-counter-point, if you're going to refuse to use EU::MM because it's too broken, you have to refuse to use Module::Build for the same reason. Ah. Ok, I'll use nothing. Well done! Ten out of ten for deliberately m

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread David Cantrell
ode and configure Apache. I'll do it eventually, but my to-do list is rather long. If anyone else wants to pick it up and implement it, I'd be delighted. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" I remember when computers were frustrating because th

Re: Embedding Module?

2008-09-28 Thread David Cantrell
ccess) without writing a Makefile. I expect that s/Makefile/Build/ works too. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Nuke a disabled unborn gay baby whale for JESUS!

Re: The problem with auto-installing dependencies

2008-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
rn have? How much do I trust the author? And no particular > set of answers to these questions is the ???right??? one. Part of this is why I wrote CPANdeps (http://deps.cpantesters.org/). I'm just about to add links to RT queues, which should be useful too. -- David Cantrell | Godless Li

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-27 Thread David Cantrell
b/Foo/Bar.pm: GPL2.txt or Artistic.txt lib/Apache/Foo/Bar.pm: Apache.txt *: public-domain and then say that *either* 'licence' *or* 'licences' must be present, as must the files they reference. The exact spelling of the word "or" in the second example I leav

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:13:24PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, in summary, here's my objections to the > > current 'license' field in META.yml: > > * poorly documented; &

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:36:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: > > That's the bit where I suggest instead of saying, eg, "frobnitz" to mean > > "the Frobnitz licence" you say "frobnitz" to mean &qu

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
ols that people *can* use if they want, but not trying to hold their hands too much if they really want to follow one of the other ways of doing things? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan Sugalski

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
WriteMakefile(...); because even if it's installed, you can't 'use' it unless you've got thread support. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to catch TB than a normal person

Re: CPAN cannot find my module

2008-11-13 Thread David Cantrell
> errors.) If that doesn't work, then I'd suggest contacting Andreas > and asking for help diagnosing the indexing problem. Could it be the weird version number? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither

Re: Module::Build 0.30_01 - please test

2008-12-12 Thread David Cantrell
okers. Hopefully I'll have the time to do all this myself in the few days before Christmas, but I'm sure it would be a good idea for at least one other person to do it. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
ad from disk those bits that are needed. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus

Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-18 Thread David Cantrell
yone have any better ideas? Of those, Recognizer is better IMO, because you're actually aiming to *understand* the barcode and turn it into a number, just like OCR turns an image into a bunch of characters, and not merely find the part of the image that contains the barcode. -- David Cantrell

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
tecting this: my $hashref = Tie::Hash::Vivify->new(sub { confess("No auto-vivifying (did you mis-spell something?)\n".Dumper(\...@_)) }); I found that excellent module after spending *hours* tracking down a typo deep in the guts of CPU::Emulator::Z80. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer

Re: Perl Critic and 5.6 vs. 5.8

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:25:39PM -0600, Roger Hall wrote: > 1. I should have perl set to a minimum version, shouldn't I? What's the best > way to do that? (Makefile?) Yes, see http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordina

Re: ARGH! (was FW: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references)

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
akes it clear that it shouldn't be treated that way. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:17:22AM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > David Cantrell writes: > > Tie::Hash::Vivify is useful for detecting this: > > my $hashref = Tie::Hash::Vivify->new(sub { > > confess("No auto-vivifying (did you mis-spell > > something?)\

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-02 Thread David Cantrell
designed with the aim of being correct and maintainable at the expense of being pitifully slow anyway. [ insert muttering about #ifdef-ing it in or out depending on whether it's running on my machine or not - why on earth was that useful feature removed? ] -- David Cantrell | Nth greates

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-03 Thread David Cantrell
rray lookup. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time -- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan practice in a letter to Heliodorus, 373 or 374 AD

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
odule::Build's license field You mean "not Module::Build-approved". Module::Build is obviously buggy in this area. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice "Cynical" is a word used by the naive to describe the experienced. George Hills, in uknot

Re: Module name suggestions? - automatic per-OS subclass

2009-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
, Solaris, Irix and AIX are all Unix. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it -- Alan Cooper

Re: Module name suggestions? - automatic per-OS subclass

2009-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
ful? Devel::CheckOS can handle that too :-) although the module it ships with for Linux 2.6 is more by way of an example of how to do it than anything else. Contributions to identify particular distributions would be most welcome! -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age If you have rece

Re: Module name suggestions? - automatic per-OS subclass

2009-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
ssertOS::OSFeatures::POSIXShellRedirection for something very similar that you could base it on. You would then say something like: use Devel::AssertOS qw(OSFeatures::SupportsSymLinks); -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information "Cynical" is a word used by the naive to describe the experienced. George Hills, in uknot

META.yml no_index

2009-04-02 Thread David Cantrell
lib Foo Bar BarTestModule.pm ... ... and even if it's not kosher, are there any dists that do that that you know of? -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness There are many different types of sausages. The best are

Re: "PBP Module Recommendation Commentary" and recent CPAN ratings spammings

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:20:20PM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: > and the summary "there is controversy, but it's definitely better > than EUMM" is certainly true. Only for certain values of "true". Whether it's actually better for *users* is a rath

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

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
" about whether it works > or how it works. Despite your saying that we can't, we do. There is disagreement about whether it's a good idea to use Module::Build, and merely denying that the disagreement exists is ... well, it's silly. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Informa

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

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Cantrell > # on Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:06: > >>> As I've said before, this is silly. It's a tool, so either it works >>> or it doesn't. We can't really have "controversy" about whether it >>&g

Re: RFC: Yet Another Excel Writer..

2009-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
| | WWW::Curl::Easy | | XML::Easy | | XML::LibXSLT::Easy | +-+ 41 rows in set (9.89 sec) -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Irregular English: ladies glow; gentlemen perspire; brutes, oafs and athletes sweat

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

2009-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
e going to think you're mad. And we should care about people outside the community, because they vastly outnumber those of us *in* the community. They and their opinions are important because they do things like influence which technologies their employers use, and consequently how many job

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

2009-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:21:48AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Cantrell on Thursday 09 April 2009 05:10: > >And we should care about people outside the community, because they > >vastly outnumber those of us *in* the community.  They and their > >opinions are i

Re: managing your perl

2009-04-14 Thread David Cantrell
hen reasonably suppose that the authors really do know what they're talking about, and that it was subjected to debate and peer review before acceptance and promulgation. And of course perldoc perladmin is rather less susceptible to casual vandalism, spam, and misguided edits than a wiki is.

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

2009-04-14 Thread David Cantrell
Friday (which has exciting API changes which your real-world (and therefore incomplete) test suite doesn't catch). But that's the ideal, and so all too often doesn't happen. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: managing your perl

2009-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
[CCing Michael Schwern cos I'm not sure if he's on this list] On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:39:04AM -0400, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > [re http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_best_admin_practices] > > ... once you have found it, h

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-05 Thread David Cantrell
o you think I should change it to use eq in the test? It may work, or it may not. If it "works" - in the sense of making the test failure go away - then I would expect it to bite someone later when they just happen to hit upon a number where the floating point rounding error goes the ot

Comparing floating point numbers

2009-05-06 Thread David Cantrell
of a showstopper for lots of people. Added TSCH to the CC list. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails of the bastard denying me access to anything else.

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:05:49PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > Yikes. You must have missed Test::Number::Delta ... Harr! That'll teach me to read the whole thread before replying! -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Irregular English: you have a

Re: Arguments checker module

2009-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
have OO, it has > blessed scalars. Just sayin' ;). If perl 5 doesn't have OO (something that I disagree with), then Moose doesn't have OO, so any advice to use Moose to get OO is obviously wrong. No amount of syntactic sugar can change the fact that perl just has blessed sc

Re: Arguments checker module

2009-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
rl plus moose will take longer than just learning perl. If you already know perl, then learning moose plus the employer's own code will take longer than learning just the employer's codebase. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information There once was a tramp with &

Re: Module::Build + automatic README / LICENSE

2009-05-12 Thread David Cantrell
either of those doable automatically? That could be a reasonable thing to do, but even then you still have problems with how to represent dual-licenced code. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: Opinion on a suitable name for a file inspection module

2009-05-13 Thread David Cantrell
a suitable name? Just in the last couple of days someone uploaded ELF-Extract-Sections to the CPAN, maybe that will do what you want. Or if not, it might at least provide a good starting point. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive There are many different types of

Re: Parse::CPAN::Cached newbie feedback request

2009-06-09 Thread David Cantrell
permissions, other than in a README. I'm > using DBIx::Class, so I can deploy the schema in code, but the db > setup less so. Look at Test::Database. > ps. It did occur that this module is perhaps too simple as to not > warrant being on cpan. Certainly not! There's lots of v

Re: Getting ready for CPAN

2009-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
n tarball gets named automagically when you create it with 'make dist'. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: CPAN Search/BACKPAN Diff Tool

2009-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:49:41PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > ... CPAN Search Diff tool ... > > I would ideally like to implement such a tool on the entire BACKPAN, Why not just take a backpan mirror, untar stuff, and use diff -r? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in

Re: should we still be registering module namespaces?

2009-08-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:48:24AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote: > Is there still a point to registering module namespaces on PAUSE? No. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails of the bast

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

2009-08-26 Thread David Cantrell
p. Simply compare version numbers of what you've got against what's in the CPAN index files. There's no privacy concerns as the files are already available on the user's machine. Have it warn loudly if you've got old versions of tools. I'd be happy to add this to my T

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

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:47:08PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > On Wed, August 26, 2009 3:23 pm, David Cantrell wrote: > > Perhaps CPAN.pm (and CPANPLUS) could add a way of checking for updated > > toolchain-ish modules on startup. Simply compare version numbers of > > wh

Re: gentle nudgings about upgrading your tools

2009-08-28 Thread David Cantrell
bundled with modules that use it, and it should be up to those modules to Do The Right Thing. I'm disinclined to include things like Archive::Tar and ExtUtils::CBuilder, but could be persuaded. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Us Germans take our humour very s

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
is > Nandor re the best definition of homedir on Mac OS. The result is that, > for the time being, at least, the official location for CPAN > configuration data on Mac OS is indeed ~/Library/Application\ > Support/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Does that not assume that you're usi

Re: Questions about encouraging testers

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
ny prompts about downloading and building libraries. But I'll add building it to my rather long to-do list ;-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig The Law of Daves: in any gathering of technical people, the number of Daves will be greater than the number of women.

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

2009-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
which will check for both a compiler, the necessary libraries/headers, and a working linker. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those

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

2009-10-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01:56PM +0200, O. STeffen BEYer wrote: > Also, many of your suggestions need Perl modules to be installed on the > target machine which do not exist on legacy Perl installations ... Devel::CheckLib is designed to be bundled with your distribution. -- David Ca

Re: How can I tell MakeMaker to insert "recommended" modules into META.yml?

2009-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
=> { > ... It's documented in the current version. IIRC it was originally just an experimental feature so not documented until recently. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" All children should be aptitude-tested at an early

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

2009-11-02 Thread David Cantrell
ave software that can talk the necessary protocol if he wishes to access that resource. If I care enough about a distribution to want to look at the git or cvs repo, then I care enough to not just look at search.cpan. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"

Re: Fun with Irix!

2009-11-05 Thread David Cantrell
you have any >> advice (or links) on how to test for gcc in Makefile.PL? > > How about: > > use Config; > if ( $Config{cc} =~ /gcc/ ) { ... } Not sure that'll always work - what if cc is a link to gcc? But $Config{gccversion} is always true if gcc was used. --

Re: Fun with Irix!

2009-11-05 Thread David Cantrell
David Cantrell wrote: > David Golden wrote: >> use Config; >> if ( $Config{cc} =~ /gcc/ ) { ... } > Not sure that'll always work - what if cc is a link to gcc? Here we go ... $ ls -l `which cc gcc` ... /usr/bin/cc -> /etc/alternatives/cc ... /usr/bin/gcc

Re: Why you don't want to use /dev/random for testing

2009-11-12 Thread David Cantrell
y reasonable interface to it. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
h an attack is lunched against your own country, > your mother land! Yes. " -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-04 Thread David Cantrell
enough to do any real work. I've been working as one of several programmers for the last six months on a large product that uses Catalyst. I still have to ask people for help whenever I hit Catalyst. And I keep finding things in Catalyst that look just plain stupid and wrong. -- David Cantr

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
ve the right version of the software, or you might want to keep your application and all its dependencies somewhere other than /usr, or you might have to use your own build of perl because as well as Catalyst you need to use some other module that's particularly fussy, or ... -- David Cantrell

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