Re: Proposed module names

2006-03-13 Thread David Landgren
David Golden wrote: Jim Schneider wrote: I have three modules I am preparing to submit to CPAN, and I was hoping to get some input on the names. The modules are: 1) DBIx::Class::Simple - a simpler alternative to DBIx::Class, but alas, not compatible (not even a little bit). It takes a colle

RFC: Set::Partition

2006-05-22 Thread David Landgren
Authors, I have a list of elements, qw[a b c d e] and I wanted to steal some code from CPAN to divvy it up into two subsets of 2 and 3 members. And enumerate all the possibilities. For instance: (a b) (c d e) (a c) (b d e) (a d) (b c e) (a e) (b c d) (b c) (a d e) (b d

Re: RFC: Set::Partition

2006-05-22 Thread David Landgren
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Landgren # on Monday 22 May 2006 09:52 am: print join( ' ', map { "(@{$p->[$_]})" } 0..$#$p ), "\n"; Stylistically, I think it is much clearer to not use the index if you don't need it. print join(' ', map

Re: RFC: Set::Partition

2006-05-22 Thread David Landgren
Kurt Starsinic wrote: On 5/22/06, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a list of elements, qw[a b c d e] and I wanted to steal some code from CPAN to divvy it up into two subsets of 2 and 3 members. And enumerate all the possibilities. [ . . . . ] Now my observation is th

Re: RFC: Set::Partition

2006-05-23 Thread David Landgren
Xavier Noria wrote: On May 22, 2006, at 20:14, Xavier Noria wrote: That takes advantage of the fact that we want to divide a given set in just two subsets of fixed size. A partitions generator may be added to the module soon, but until then I think there's room for Set::Partition. Indeed, I

Re: RFC: Set::Partition

2006-05-24 Thread David Landgren
Ken Williams wrote: [...] BTW, Xavier & David both: The proposed interface for enumerating the set partitions uses array refs, but sets in perl are more naturally represented using hashes. I'd suggest re-implementing in terms of hashes, or perhaps giving it a complete-enough OO interface tha

Re: Module naming advice

2006-05-26 Thread David Landgren
Jeff Lavallee wrote: Hi all, before I upload a new module, I thought I'd make sure the namespace I intend to use makes sense. I've been working on a set of modules to make interacting with the next generation of Yahoo's marketing web services easier. The modules insulate the user from a lot of

Including externally-defined constants

2006-07-19 Thread David Landgren
Authors, I have a design issue with a module I'm writing. I posted a question on Perlmonks a while back and got nothing useful, which perhaps indicates that the question was poorly phrased. So I'll try again here. I have a series of associations in a file: FOO 1 BAR 2 QUUX 3 It's easy enoug

Re: Including externally-defined constants

2006-07-21 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis wrote: [...] Might Pod::Constants help? =begin constants FOO => 1 BAR => 2 QUUX => 3 =end constants And then in the code: use Pod::Constants -trim => 1, constants => \my %const; use constants \%const; Thanks for the suggestion, Aris

Re: Take back your modules!

2006-09-07 Thread David Landgren
Andy Lester wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote: I say: If you are care about a module's maintenance, start acting like you own it, being considering that others, especially the current maintainer, may feel the same way. Nice. Worthy of a use.perl.org post so others can s

Following up on a CPAN review

2006-10-04 Thread David Landgren
List, I've just noticed a scathing review on one of my modules. Ok, it's Tie::Cycle::Sinewave and a bit of a joke, but nonetheless, it does seem to work just fine for me. But "chitresh" thinks that it's "Highly buggy and not reliable. Many false positives. I think the author should calculate

Re: Following up on a CPAN review

2006-10-05 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: List, I've just noticed a scathing review on one of my modules. Ok, it's Tie::Cycle::Sinewave and a bit of a joke, but nonetheless, it does seem to work just fine for me. Dear List, you may ignore this question. It turns out that the review in question wa

Re: A couple of CPAN questions

2006-11-06 Thread David Landgren
Geoffrey Leach wrote: Some time back I uploaded a new version for a distribution of which I am not the owner (no updates since 2004). The file, Pod-HtmlEasy-0.08_01, is in my directory, and shows up on author search (GLEACH), but does not show up on module search. x.xx_01 indicates a beta rel

Modules dealing with data files

2006-11-10 Thread David Landgren
Authors, I have written a module that deals with France's INSEE codes, which allows one to look up postcodes and stuff like that. I've been toying with Geography::FR::Postcode as a name. (any other ideas?) The thing is, it relies on a text file that is 750KiB zipped, updated periodically. So I'm

Retired modules, still registered

2006-12-12 Thread David Landgren
I've been playing around with Sieve, a language for filtering incoming messages. It's rather hateful (but that's a topic for another list), and I serendipitiously encountered Mail::Sieve on a CPAN search. So I thought I'd take a look. Except that it's not there. It appears as a registered modu

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-15 Thread David Landgren
James E Keenan did write: I am preparing a module for CPAN tentatively titled List::RewriteElements. Given a list of data records, typically in the form of a flat file, optionally containing a header row, I am frequently asked to generate a new file in which each record is transformed accordi

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread David Landgren
Andy Armstrong did write: Once Ask or whoever gives me permissions the new release will appear in the index. For now it can be found here: http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/A/AN/ANDYA/CGI-Simple-0.078.tar.gz Ping brian d foy, but I imagine he's already watching this thread. DAvid

James Keenan's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread David Landgren
Ovid wrote: Has anyone heard from James Freeman, the maintainer of CGI::Simple (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cgi-Simple/)? It's not been updated in a couple of years, the outstanding bugs appear to mostly be related to the same issue, and I tried emailing him about this using the contact [...]

Re: James Freenan's (not Keenan's) other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread David Landgren
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:56, Adriano Ferreira wrote: For the record, James Keenan is an active developer (http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/). The modules in question were found in James Freeman's directory (http://search.cpan.org/~jfreeman/). Did anyone mention James Keenan?

Re: James Freeman's other modules

2007-01-12 Thread David Landgren
I was also wondering whether - given that backpan exists so people can always find them if they really want them - there shouldn't be a mechanism for removing modules that are unloved and unused. That strikes me as a little severe. Some may be packaged with OS distributions. Heap::Priority s

Re: James Freeman's other modules

2007-01-12 Thread David Landgren
Smylers wrote: [stuff about detecting "dead" modules] I'm not entirely sure what problem you're trying to solve here. But that's largely irrelevant -- because however good your idea is, there's bound to be somebody in the Perl community questioning it or objecting to it! So don't wait for app

Re: Reclaiming lists.{perl,cpan}.org

2007-01-25 Thread David Landgren
Ken Williams wrote: Hi, If you look at http://lists.perl.org/ or http://lists.cpan.org/ (the former just redirects to the latter) you'll see a list that apparently has lost its maintainer. For instance, I've tried variously over the past 6 months to change the address of the Module::Build li

[OT] recovering an SVN repo with SVK

2007-02-05 Thread David Landgren
List, apologies for the OT post, but people here probably know the answer. I manage most of my modules (and other things) in SVN except when offline, then I use SVK. Parallel to that, I look after the mongueurs.net svnweb repositories, and I've been trying to track down a memory leak with Ni

Re: [OT] recovering an SVN repo with SVK

2007-02-05 Thread David Landgren
Nik Clayton wrote: > David Landgren wrote: >> Parallel to that, I look after the mongueurs.net svnweb repositories, >> and I've been trying to track down a memory leak with Nik Clayton. >> Alas, at some point I ran some tests of his against a couple of live >> r

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread David Landgren
Joshua ben Jore wrote: I'd just read of Time::Cube, a disjointed rant full of hate speech. This is the kind of content that is most deserving of deletion from CPAN. Would the responsible parties please go nuke this, please? Ok, lot of valid arguments that I agree with more or less, so I'm goin

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread David Landgren
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 8 Feb 2007, at 17:20, David Landgren wrote: And as we all know, 99% of modules these days are found through searches. I would recommend a much more subtle approach: ask Andreas and Randy to... oops... accidentally remove it from their indices, and therefore when

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread David Landgren
Randy Kobes wrote: [...] Perhaps, if nothing else, the terms of usage of the package: http://search.cpan.org/src/BANTOWN/Time-Cubic-1.0/LICENSE by which one *must* commit at least three violations of the named parts of the US Criminal Code to use it, makes it unsuitable for CPAN. Continu

Re: [OT] recovering an SVN repo with SVK

2007-02-11 Thread David Landgren
Nik Clayton wrote: [...] I finally managed to work on this problem a bit this weekend. Finally, the repo dump will also contain some svm:* properties. These should probably be removed too, for completeness sake. A property definition in the dump file looks like: K \d+ V \d+ E.g

Re: [OT] recovering an SVN repo with SVK

2007-02-12 Thread David Landgren
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 18:06, David Landgren écrivait: [...] and I suspect that will cause indigestion later on. Rather than fiddle around with calculating content lengths myself, or try and drop the entire stanza since there's nothing left, it

Best practices for dual-lifing a core module?

2007-03-22 Thread David Landgren
List, I've recently taken over File::Path, to bring some modern goodness to this venerable module (and therefore allow such goodness to be backported to older perls). As it stands in the core, it consists of the files ./lib/File/Path.{pm,t}. To turn it into a standalone CPAN distribution, it

Re: Net::Server::Mail

2007-03-27 Thread David Landgren
Xavier Guimard a écrit : Hello, Olivier Poitrey which is the maintener of Net::Server::Mail does not respond to any of my request to any of the address I've found: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (address in use in French Perl developer list) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (registered in PAUSE) and many other I've fou

[Fwd: [perl #42507] funet.fi down for maint]

2007-04-16 Thread David Landgren
I CC'ed module-authors on a reply to this from the ticket, but in case that doesn't get through, here's the skinny on funet.fi later on today. So no need to worry if it looks like your beloved upload is taking time to propagate, it is to be expected. Thanks, David --- Begin Message --- http://

[RFC] new, improved File::Path

2007-04-17 Thread David Landgren
A few weeks ago, someone filed a patch on p5p to allow a new positional parameter to File::Path::rmtree() that would delete everything, but retain the root directory. Which is quite a desirable feature. Michael G Schwern shot the implementation down, saying (what we all know) that positional p

Re: Please let me have co-maintainership of XML-SemanticDiff

2007-07-03 Thread David Landgren
self. Will you continue to do as well, or do you plan to change it to your UCLA license? Regards, David Landgren

Re: Please let me have co-maintainership of XML-SemanticDiff

2007-07-04 Thread David Landgren
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007, David Landgren wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: Hello CPAN Cabalists! There is no cabal. Correction: there is no IGLU Cabal! ;-) http://www.hackers.org.il/mediawiki/index.php/The_mysterious_IGLU_Cabal http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/tinic

Re: Contacting JOEYATES and GMPASSOS

2007-09-07 Thread David Landgren
Mattia Barbon wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to contact Joe Yates (JOEYATES) and Graciliano Monteiro Passos (GMPASSOS), the former for OpenOffice::UNO module, the gmpassos rang a bell. http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=gmpassos Hasn't been there in two years...

Re: in search of author: ABW, App::Config

2007-09-07 Thread David Landgren
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: I'd like to get App::Config indexed, but ABW has module-list registered App::Config but does not use it. I've sent him an email with no reply (only about a week ago). Does anyone have a lead on a better way to get in touch with him than the address listed on his CPAN accou

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

2007-10-12 Thread David Landgren
Eric Wilhelm wrote: The great thing about maintenance programmers is that they come from the future (the one where utf8 just works.) Wow. Which parallel future do you come from ? :)

BackPAN mirror owners: please delete Finance::FuturesQuote

2007-11-27 Thread David Landgren
Hello and apologies for the cross-posting. PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY. All other non-discussion queries regarding this matter may be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that offers (I would imagine) futures quotes. The author

Re: [Request] File::Wordlist

2007-12-11 Thread David Landgren
Chris Dolan wrote: Dear really-really-lazyweb, Would someone please create a CPAN module that finds a wordlist on the local computer in a cross-platform friendly manner, a la File::HomeDir? For typical unix systems, that would be: sub find_wordlist { return '/usr/share/dict/words';

Re: Config::IniFiles - Resuming Maintenance

2008-03-22 Thread David Landgren
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! It seems that Config::IniFiles has not been maintained for over 4 years now: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-IniFiles/ Have you tried dropping a line in the contact box at http://sevensimplemachines.com/contact.aspx ? David

Looking for C header files in all the right places

2008-03-22 Thread David Landgren
Authors, I have a problem with Crypt::SSLeay getting the path right to custom include directories to pick up the OpenSSL libraries and headers. On most free/libre Unix environments, one finds the includes rooted under /usr or /usr/local at .../include/openssl/*.h On Windows, one finds bo

Re: license in META.yml

2008-03-24 Thread David Landgren
Gabor Szabo wrote: As I am usually using Module::Build I did not know that a recent version of MakeMaker has started to support the LICENSE parameter and will include it in the automatically created META.yml. That has been the case for a couple of years or so. I think it was first introduced i

Re: license in META.yml

2008-03-27 Thread David Landgren
David Precious wrote: David Landgren wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: As I am usually using Module::Build I did not know that a recent version of MakeMaker has started to support the LICENSE parameter and will include it in the automatically created META.yml. That has been the case for a couple of

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

2008-05-26 Thread David Landgren
Eric Roode wrote: [meta: I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ, but I could not get to mail-archive.com to search the group's archive] Can one challenge the result of a CPAN-testers test result? If so, how? No. I see several erroneous FAIL reports for modules of mine, and I think it's unf

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

2008-05-27 Thread David Landgren
Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 23:22:47 +0200 David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a couple of FreeBSD-specific modules. Automated smokers running on Linux and what ever keep trying to test them and fail. I don't think these failures will stop someo

Re: CPAN maintainer e-mail address defunct

2008-07-24 Thread David Landgren
David Fleck a écrit : I'm trying to contact Colin Kuskie, maintainer of the Statistics::Descriptive module, but mail to his cpan address bounces: |The following addresses had delivery problems: | |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There are some tickets in RT that were filed by lhs=ckuskie rhs=sterlink.ne

Re: Looking for C header files in all the right places

2008-08-19 Thread David Landgren
Norbert Gruener wrote, some time around 14/08/2008 08:57: Hi David, On Sat, Mar 22 2008, David Landgren wrote: Authors, I have a problem with Crypt::SSLeay getting the path right to custom include directories to pick up the OpenSSL libraries and headers. did you get ever a solution to your

Weekend entertainment

2009-11-15 Thread David Landgren
I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up on the cont...@perl.org queue. (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?) Dear Sir, Let me begin by saying that I am really dis

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-18 Thread David Landgren
David Cantrell wrote, some time around 17/11/2009 13:12: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:51:44PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?) Surely it would be better to just reply

Re: Trimming the CPAN

2010-03-25 Thread David Landgren
On 25/03/2010 09:12, nadim khemir wrote: I'd agree with Jonas, the only way is to ask authors to clean their own home. from very official to non official: - mail all authors (that would also list all those with broken mail addresses) - something on perl.org - ask Perl mo

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-03-30 Thread David Landgren
On 29/03/2010 09:39, Arthur Corliss wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: The entire point of rsync is to send only changes. Therefore once your mirror initially syncs the old versions of modules is not the issue. Indeed, removing the old versions would present additional burden o

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-03-31 Thread David Landgren
On 30/03/2010 20:33, Arthur Corliss wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Matija Grabnar wrote: Er, not exactly. Read http://www.cvsup.org/howsofast.html I had read http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#features item #3. From what I can see, cvsup uses the rsync algorithm on a file-by-file basis (it uses jus

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-03-31 Thread David Landgren
On 31/03/2010 06:52, David Nicol wrote: new proposal: Make modules "pay rent" in order to remain on a mirror. Rent could be in the form of actual user interest, or good reviews. Use as a dependency could count as rent. Put a value tag on things and people will game the system to ensure their

Reducing rsync cost (was: Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules)

2010-11-22 Thread David Landgren
On 19/11/2010 20:57, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: source code, even 100KLOC? Once you go to .gz you're already at better than 2:1. What are you going to save by going to even 3:1, 10Kbytes? compared to the nuisance inflicted, it's nothing. Over the entire CPAN archive, it'd be significant... I agre

Re: Reducing rsync cost

2010-11-23 Thread David Landgren
On 22/11/2010 15:18, David Nicol wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgren wrote: Yeah, this is the killer. In an ideal world, we would kill the symlinks such as authors/id/*, modules/by-category/*, modules/by-module/* and so on. These could be recreated via shell scripts locally

New module: Regexp::Trie

2004-07-14 Thread David Landgren
remember which, if either, is deprecated). 3. Is the lexer namespace a good idea? Or is there a better way do to this? I'm open to any design suggestions on this issue since nothing is written yet. Thanks for reading this far, David Landgren

Re: New module: Regexp::Trie

2004-07-14 Thread David Landgren
Randy W. Sims wrote: [...] 3. Is the lexer namespace a good idea? Or is there a better way do to this? I'm open to any design suggestions on this issue since nothing is written yet. What about Japhy's new Regexp::Parser ? Hmm. Yes, I've know about it, and even downloaded it to play with it this

Re: [Module::Build] requires_one_of

2004-07-19 Thread David Landgren
Ken Williams wrote: [...] Regarding the concept-formerly-known-as "virtual packages", I think I'd like them to tie into the "features" concept more. I think perhaps it's time to write that boolean requirement specification stuff, and then we can use that both in the "normal" requirement specs a

Re: 'make test' email report from cpanplus bounced becuase perl.org requires valid sender domain

2004-08-26 Thread David Landgren
Adam Monsen wrote: I'm unable to send in test reports via cpanplus because the test email sent by Mail::Send doesn't have a valid sender domain. How might I set this? Example: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 550 [PERMFAIL] perl.org

Re: Compress::Bzip2 patch, can't reach author

2004-12-11 Thread David Landgren
Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 08:16 +0100, David Landgren wrote: David Robins wrote: I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; I sent it to the maintainer (Marco Carnut, http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't reply. The patch: - fixes

Re: DFA::StateMachine

2004-12-15 Thread David Landgren
David Coppit wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Orton, Yves wrote: The term "DFA::StateMachine" is like say "Car::Car". Right. A DFA is by definition a state machine (it stands for "determinisitic finite state automata"). And after a review of the code IMO using the term DFA is a bad call. Normally "DFA"

What name for a printer status supplies module?

2004-12-17 Thread David Landgren
List, I have some code that queries an HP LaserJet 4600 printer to retrieve a web page, that I then scrape to pick out the values of the various consumables it has (CMYK cartridges and other kits). The fact that it uses http is incidental. If HP bothered to supply a half-decent MIB, SNMP would

Re: What name for a printer status supplies module?

2004-12-17 Thread David Landgren
Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 21:21 +0100, David Landgren wrote: List, I have some code that queries an HP LaserJet 4600 printer to retrieve a web page, that I then scrape to pick out the values of the various consumables it has (CMYK cartridges and other kits). [...] Printer

Re: Compress::Bzip2 patch, can't reach author

2004-12-10 Thread David Landgren
David Robins wrote: I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; I sent it to the maintainer (Marco Carnut, http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't reply. The patch: - fixes a bug with compressing small strings (the allocated buffer is too small) - adds error reporting

Re: What name for a printer status supplies module?

2004-12-18 Thread David Landgren
Ovid wrote: --- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I were you I'd not use classes to model that part of it. Just have a Printer::Status::HP4500 (or HP::HP4500 or whatever) object with a components() or consumables() method that returns a hash mapping name to properties. E.g.: "If you s

Taking over maintenance of PDF.pm

2004-12-22 Thread David Landgren
Hello, I want to take over PDF.pm (I have a few patches for it). I've been talking back and forth with a guy who used to work with the author, and I quote: David, SANFACE Software is a company and has the cpan entry sanface. Antonio worked for SANFACE when he developed pdf.pm. I know he don't w

Re: Taking over maintenance of PDF.pm

2004-12-22 Thread David Landgren
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Selon David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I want to take over PDF.pm (I have a few patches for it). I've been talking back and forth with a guy who used to work with the author, and I quote: David, before spending time patching PDF.pmd, did

Re: Module Name

2004-12-27 Thread David Landgren
Terrence Brannon wrote: I believe you can do everything that this module does using Parse::RecDescent. Maybe so, but Parse::RecDescent is slow, and that in itself is reason enough to avoid using it. You also have to write the grammar, which can take a non-trivial amount of time to design and tes

Re: Module Name: Net::Lite::FTP

2005-01-05 Thread David Landgren
Dariush Pietrzak wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Austin Schutz wrote: Why not just add the functionality to Net::FTP? Or you could subclass Net::FTP and call it something clever like Net::FTP::TLS. Because Net::FTP is written in a way that makes it extremely hard to make needed modifications.

License "unknown" on search.cpan.org

2005-01-05 Thread David Landgren
People, I happened to look at my module through search.cpan.org and noticed that the License field says "unknown". The pod states that the module is released under the same terms as Perl itself. Am I correct in assuming that if I add license: perl to the META.yml file, this will correct the sit

Re: Module naming advice

2005-01-06 Thread David Landgren
Ken Williams wrote: On Jan 4, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Ovid wrote: --- Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Me too, except for how it reads in the 'use' statement. use aka 'Really::Long::Module::Name'; Yeah, that bugs me too. Still, aka.pm is the name I lean toward. I still don't understand the sem

Re: When the prophet won't go to the mountain, the mountain must go to the prophet.

2005-01-06 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis wrote: >Oh look, > >it's an Atom newsfeed for cpanratings.perl.org: Man, when I read the subject I thought your email was going to be about penis enlargement. Excellent work. And you've got a feed for QDB. Marvellous. David

Re: When Did a Module Become Core?

2005-01-20 Thread David Landgren
Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:52:39PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: Andy Lester wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:32:06PM -0500, James Keenan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is the simplest way to determine for a given CPAN module (a) whether it is part of the Perl core; (b) wh

Re: Facing a problem in perl telnet module

2005-01-25 Thread David Landgren
Shivageetha C wrote: Hi, Hello, I am Shivageeta S. Choodi, working for Novell, Bangalore in system testing group. This is a mailing list for authors of Perl modules, to help them discuss issues of publishing modules for the use by the worldwide Perl community. It is not a general help list. Hav

Re: Algorithm::RootFind Request for Comments

2005-02-15 Thread David Landgren
Spencer Ogden wrote: OK, Math::RootFind it is. One more question, on interface: All of the algorithms have two parameters, e (as in epsilon) and max_iter, which set precision and max run-time respectively. They have reasonable defaults, and probably won't be changed often, so I am loathe to make

Re: Algorithm::RootFind Request for Comments

2005-02-15 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Spencer Ogden wrote: OK, Math::RootFind it is. One more question, on interface: All of the algorithms have two parameters, e (as in epsilon) and max_iter, which set precision and max run-time respectively. They have reasonable defaults, and probably won't be changed

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread David Landgren
Mark Stosberg wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: Aloha, GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework. GNOME already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to. It's based on GLib and

Re: Introduction Letter

2005-02-28 Thread David Landgren
Andrew Savige wrote: [...] Naming. I wonder if your: { use_return => 1 }, is the recommended Perl style for named parameters? I thought not until I noticed HTML::Parser uses this style. Alternatives are I like this style. CamelCase style (a la XML::Parser, for example): { UseReturn

Re: what namespace for future new module ?

2005-03-10 Thread David Landgren
Ofer Nave wrote: A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Cédric Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-10 10:25]: Thank you for the hint. I quickly looked on CPAN and there doesn't seem to be many modules under Cluster::, besides Cluster::Init which is more geared towards High Availability. I don't find Cluster

Re: Module for simple processing of "log" files

2005-03-29 Thread David Landgren
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: Hi, [...] > The module works like this: use Blah;# not a very good name for CPAN :-) Acme::Blah! :o) my $blah = Blah->new( delimiter => ':', fields=> [qw( bap clank glipp plop )], show => \&show_my_data, ); # quelqu

TRIEs in the core (was: Re: Module for simple processing of "log" files_

2005-03-30 Thread David Landgren
Orton, Yves wrote: [...] But David and the other Regexp authors need to update their code to take advantage of 5.9.2 and later innate TRIE optimisation. They still have room for optimising the patterns that they build but they will need to build fairly different looking patterns to really harne

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-27 Thread David Landgren
Mark Stosberg wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possib

Re: RFC: Getopt::Modern

2005-06-18 Thread David Landgren
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # The following was supposedly scribed by # A. Pagaltzis # on Friday 17 June 2005 03:05 am: I therefore further posit that the switch you called “--no-verbose” is a misnomer. It should be called “--start-verbose=0”, which indeed should be parsed in precedence order rather

Re: Regexp code feature

2005-08-21 Thread David Landgren
Nicholas Clark a écrit : On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:07:27PM -0500, Chris Dolan wrote: This is exactly the sort of feedback I was hoping to see, however. May I recommend that you add a note about that $^R problem to the docs at annocpan.org? http://annocpan.org/~NWCLARK/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlr

Re: RFC - "Test::Stupid" module

2005-08-22 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Robert Rothenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-21 13:40]: No matter what wiz-bang new module starter system somebody comes up with, there will be some kind of boilerplate text. Unless maybe it asks you to write the documentation before you write the module. Maybe the so

Re: error messages in cpan w/readline in 5.8.7...(?)

2005-09-30 Thread David Landgren
[p5p trimmed from followups] Linda W a écrit : [...] Well not really, I really don't need it -- I was only attempting to install it as a debugging aid for the error messages I was getting when CPAN was starting up that involved valid lines in my ~/.inputrc file (used by bash, as well). li

Re: Tests needing user parameters

2005-10-20 Thread David Landgren
Jess Robinson wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Ken Williams wrote: On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Jess Robinson wrote: My module will login to a web service and manipulate data programmatically.. Nothing critical I assure you, just a tool ;) Since theres no dummy/test account that I know of, I'll

Re: Tests needing user parameters

2005-10-20 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis wrote : * David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-20 10:30]: [...] If there's a standard way of doing it, it would be really nice that it understood when it was being run in a smoke environment, and asked no questions and used built-in defaults. That’s exac

Re: Tests needing user parameters

2005-10-20 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis a écrit : * David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-20 10:30]: [...] If there's a standard way of doing it, it would be really nice that it understood when it was being run in a smoke environment, and asked no questions and used built-in defaults. That’s exac

RFC - Data::SelectWithoutReplacement

2005-11-17 Thread David Landgren
People, I have a simple module written and as far as I can tell, there's nothing on CPAN that does this. (Algorithm::Permute might, but it segfaults on my machine). From the POD: Data::SelectWithoutReplacement - Generate all subsets of a list of elements =head1 VERSION This document descri

Re: RFC - Data::SelectWithoutReplacement

2005-11-18 Thread David Landgren
Xavier Noria wrote: On Nov 17, 2005, at 22:45, David Landgren wrote: People, I have a simple module written and as far as I can tell, there's nothing on CPAN that does this. (Algorithm::Permute might, but it segfaults on my machine). There are some modules dealing with this kind of

Re: RFC - Data::SelectWithoutReplacement

2005-11-19 Thread David Landgren
And Smylers did write: David Landgren writes: ... my main question concerns the name. Is it good? Did you understand what the module would do when your saw the subject of this message in your inbox? No. And I still don't understand what "WithoutReplacement" means

Re: RFC - Data::SelectWithoutReplacement

2005-11-19 Thread David Landgren
And Xavier Noria did write: On Nov 17, 2005, at 22:45, David Landgren wrote: People, I have a simple module written and as far as I can tell, there's nothing on CPAN that does this. (Algorithm::Permute might, but it segfaults on my machine). There are some modules dealing with

Re: RFC - Data::SelectWithoutReplacement

2005-11-19 Thread David Landgren
And Xavier Noria did write: On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:31, Xavier Noria wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 9:48, David Landgren wrote: And Xavier Noria did write: [...] I've had a long look at Math::Combinatorics, and while it could be used to generate a power set, it would take a certain a

Re: [RFC] Pod2::Perldoc - new module proposal

2005-11-22 Thread David Landgren
Kurt Starsinic wrote: On 11/22/05, Enrico Sorcinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pod2::Perldoc is an improved distribution of Perldoc, the program for reading Pod documentation. It's available at http://modperl.it/POD2-IT/Pod2-Perldoc-3.14.tar.gz Enrico, Your patches look both useful and inte

Re: New module: FLV file parsing

2005-12-02 Thread David Landgren
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Nicol # on Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:18 pm: isn't there a multimedia name space? name spaces per-product that is being supported make sense --- Flash::parseFLV perhaps? What else will appear in the Flash:: namespace? Will macromedia release a pure perl

Re: [RFC] Samba::LDAP namespace?

2006-01-16 Thread David Landgren
Gavin Henry a écrit : Dear List, I would like your opinion on the namespace: Samba::LDAP then Samba::LDAP::Group Samba::LDAP::Password Samba::LDAP::User I want to do this as I am halfway through writing an application called "SOSA - Samba and Open-xchange Simple Administrator" using Catalyst

[perl #42507] funet.fi down for maint

2007-04-16 Thread David Landgren via RT
On Sat Apr 14 05:33:05 2007, jhi wrote: > Monday, 2007-04-16, funet.fi will be down from 12:00 to about 16:00 GMT > for hardware maintenance. (More and faster disk, yeah!) Uploads will be frozen for a little while today (accepted, but not propagated). This came up on the main perl.org contact ad