Re: AnnoCPAN

2007-06-06 Thread David Precious
chive.org to find that page, as the AnnoCPAN homepage is giving that DBI error, sounds like the database is corrupt/missing). Ivan, outputting errors like that to the browser is bad, mmmkay? :) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

Re: Need naming advice

2007-06-22 Thread David Precious
ith features such as: [...]> > Does it go under CGI? Under DBIx? Authen? Make up some new category? > I've tried WWW::UserDB and CGI::UserDB but I'm not really happy with either. My initial thought would be Authen::UserManagement or similar, but I'm not sure. -- David

Re: WordPress module?

2007-06-25 Thread David Precious
module has the advantage of being able to treat the WP internals as a black box, and just use a documented interface. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/

Re: CPAN naming advice for a SlimServer interface

2007-07-19 Thread David Precious
be another possibility? [0] http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/Audio-MPD/ [1] http://www.musicpd.org/ Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

Re: lambda - a shortcut for an apology

2007-10-11 Thread David Precious
xplicitly like Foo::bar() so that it's immediately obvious where to look to find it). My own feeling is that the Acme namespace would have been appropriate as this module does strike me as "neat and fun, but not something I'd use in production code". But, as you said, "who am I to say what namespace it should be in?" :) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ :: http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

Re: Spanish fiscal identifier validator

2007-10-12 Thread David Precious
Xavier Noria wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:43 PM, David Precious wrote: Xavier Noria wrote: I would like to publish a validator of Spanish fiscal identifiers (NIF, NIE, CIF) but don't see any existing namespace where it fits. I'd say anywhere under Finance:: would be a suitable

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread David Precious
David Cantrell wrote: > In English English, "this Sunday" is in the future, regardless of > when the speaker thinks the week begins. Unless it *is* Sunday, in which case it's the present.

Naming for Premium Bonds checker

2008-01-10 Thread David Precious
Hi all, I intend to code up a quick script to run from cron each month to look up a Premium Bond holder's number on the NSandI lookup page[0] to find out whether that holder's number has won a prize or not, and thought I may as well release it to CPAN as a small module. I'm thinking Finance

Re: license in META.yml

2008-03-24 Thread David Precious
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 years or so. I think it

Re: Removing or Archiving outdated and unsupported modules on CPAN; proposal

2008-04-04 Thread David Precious
On 04/03/2008 05:38 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > Anyway, when I find a bug or missing feature in a module I want to use, > I consider myself personally responsible for that problem. If I want a > feature so badly, why don't I write it myself? (I think other people > should consider adopting this

Re: Why is use_ok failing in this test script?

2008-05-17 Thread David Precious
ipt: plan tests => scalar (@file_objects) * 17; Too late. You must declare your plan (or declare that you don't have a plan) *before* trying to run any tests. (And "use_ok" is of course a test, to test that it can "use" the module you want to load). So, declar

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Precious
On 07/21/2008 10:57 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > My module Number::Format has some red areas in its Kwalitee report > http://cpants.perl.org/dist/kwalitee/Number-Format > > When I release 1.60, I tried to fix a lot of the kwalitee issues with > the previous version, 1.52. However, it appears that some

Re: __DATA__ to Tempfile

2008-08-01 Thread David Precious
On 08/01/2008 12:05 PM, Ovid wrote: > I can't believe I can't find this code. It *has* to be out there, > right? > > use Inline::TempFile; my $temp_filename = Inline::Tempfile->new; > > __DATA__ Everything here is written to that tempfile. > > Is this module out there? I know it's trivial, but

Re: IO::Prompt suggestion

2008-09-10 Thread David Precious
sawyer x wrote: As you can see, I've added two lines to check what's wrong with the value. I tried different things, till I decided to check it with Data::Dumper. Low and behold, it returns an object. Here is the output: site_name: $VAR1 = bless( { 'success' => 1,

Re: IO::FakeTty - comments on the name (and usefulness) of this module

2009-10-13 Thread David Precious
evice, maybe?), even though there's already a distribution by that name? I think I'd use "Mock" rather than "Fake", in keeping with e.g. Test::MockObject, DBD::Mock, Test::Mock::LWP etc. IO::Tty::MockDevice would seem to work for me. Cheers Dave P -- David P

Re: Name Proposal for new Module (HTML::EditableTable)

2009-12-02 Thread David Precious
Andrew Espenscheid wrote: Hello, We plan to contribute modules that encapsulate the concept of an editable html table with a focus on engineering web applications. I propose the following names for the modules HTML::EditableTable > HTML::EditableTable::Horizontal HTML::EditableTable::Vertica

Re: Meta.yml spec

2010-02-18 Thread David Precious
David Golden wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Ivan Wills wrote: g...@github.com:EvanCarroll/datetimex-format.git That's not a URL, that's the "problem". You can probably stick "ssh:" in front of it, though. I think Ivan's point was more that the repo "URL" in question does not actu

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-04-01 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 01 April 2010 05:39:27 David Nicol wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. > > so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a > database instead of a file system? It

Re: Testing problem (32 bit numeric constants?)

2010-04-12 Thread David Precious
Hi, Nothing to add regarding the cause of the problem you're seeing, but: On Sunday 11 April 2010 20:07:25 cr...@animalhead.com wrote: > An operand that fails these tests results in a return value of '**'. > An operand that passes but is not in the database returns '??'. > Other operands return

Re: Goodbye Perl6::Say

2010-04-15 Thread David Precious
(Especially if they happen to be stuck on an ancient Perl due to odd corporate rules or something.) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identicawww.lyrics

Re: Goodbye Perl6::Say

2010-04-15 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 15 April 2010 17:04:44 Ovid wrote: > Never, never run the risk of breaking someone else's production code if you > can foresee this happening :) 100% agreed, that's why I think removing Perl6::Say from CPAN is a Bad Idea.

Re: Merging two CPAN modules

2010-05-27 Thread David Precious
onfig don't find their code suddenly breaking. That may be overkill though, and simply leaving the existing code (assuming it works well enough at the moment) with a "this is now deprecated, use Config::YAML which is actively developed" may be sufficient. -- David Precious http://

Re: Why are you releasing modules to CPAN?

2010-05-28 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 27 May 2010 12:33:53 Gabor Szabo wrote: > This whole thing makes me wonder, why do *you* really contribute to CPAN? Many reasons: * Easy code reuse between various projects - if I find myself doing something repeatedly which I could package up neatly (and doesn't exist on CPAN alrea

Re: New module - perl API for Slideshare

2010-06-01 Thread David Precious
eem appropriate? Any > other feedback/suggestion? Sounds like a reasonable choice of name to me, there's already plenty of other similar modules in the WWW::* namespace. -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin

Re: Reducing rsync cost

2010-11-25 Thread David Precious
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 10:51:25 David Golden wrote: > The new "fast" CPAN mirrors use File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent, which > uses the new RECENT.* files to manage the synchronization process. > Those files record recent changes (adds/deletes) to the frequently > changing "authors/" and "module

Re: Starting a module's history from gitpan

2011-10-12 Thread David Precious
s are of course available from backpan or gitpan, for anyone who is interested) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)

Re: The module authors pledge

2011-11-10 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 10 November 2011 09:50:08 Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > I am against the 'if I die' part. As we are all communication over the net, > it is very difficult to know why a person have stopped responding. > And it make the statement a bit scary. Hmm - if it's someone reasonably well known in the

Re: Attempt to contact module author Shlomo Yona (SuffixTree module on CPAN)

2012-08-20 Thread David Precious
d have forwarded your mail to him at that address, and also attempted to connect on LinkedIn with a note explaining why. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpanwww.preshweb.co.uk/github

Re: Advice on module name needed

2012-09-06 Thread David Precious
ally::REST > Rally::Client::REST > WebService::Rally > Webservice::Rally > WWW::Rally::API My vote would go for WebService::Rally or WWW::Rally. There's plenty of existing examples in both namespaces. I don't think it justifies a new top-level namespace of its own.

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-07 Thread David Precious
aded to CPAN if it reaches a point where it's useful. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpanwww.preshweb.co.uk/github

Re: please help me name a module

2013-09-12 Thread David Precious
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:15:22 +0100 David Cantrell wrote: > I'd go for Device::Car::Tesla(::ModelS)?. Car, not Auto, because in > most of the English-speaking world auto means automatic, not > automobile. This ^. Also, I would suggest including the ::ModelS, as it's entirely possible that Tesla

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

2015-10-23 Thread David Precious
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:50:58 +0200 Jonas Brømsø Nielsen wrote: > Hello All, > > We are trying to get in touch with Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN), but > his e-mail address bounces, does anybody know how and if it is > possible to get a hold of him, we want to contribute to his: > > Business::Tax::V

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

2015-10-23 Thread David Precious
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:27:12 +0100 Neil Bowers wrote: > >> [want to contribute to > >> Business::Tax::VAT::Validation, created by Bernard Nauwelaerts > >> (BPGN)]. [...] > > I've managed to contact him via LinkedIn, and he has indicated he'd > > be happy to give me co-maint so I can take over mai

Re: Add users to BIOPERLML mailing list?

2016-06-02 Thread David Precious
On Fri, 27 May 2016 21:43:03 + "Fields, Christopher J" wrote: > The Bioperl devs have been using BIOPERLML as an ‘umbrella’ group ID > for making releases. We would like to add a few new devs to this for > making future releases if possible; is there an easy way to go about > this? Or even

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report RRWO/Set-Light-0.95.tar.gz

2021-05-12 Thread David Precious
Hi Robert, Doesn't look like a permissions issue. Particularly: >> ERROR: Database error occurred during index update PAUSE ran out of disk space this weekend[1], so I suspect it was an explosion related to that, and retrying now would work? [1] http://neilb.org/2021/05/10/delete-your-old-re

Requesting co-maint on Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber (author unresponsive so far)

2023-07-17 Thread David Precious
#x27;t reach him, if one of the PAUSE admins would consider giving me co-maint on it so I can get a new version out. Cheers David Precious (BIGPRESH)