Re: Why are you releasing modules to CPAN?

2010-05-27 Thread Marco Marongiu
Gabor Szabo ha scritto: > So why do *you* contribute to CPAN? Some years ago I released three little modules to CPAN. There's no great code in them, but I hoped that they could be useful to other people. Being helpful to others is the only reason why I hold myself up to public scorn :) Ciao --bro

Re: The module authors pledge

2011-11-10 Thread Marco Marongiu
Il 08/11/2011 17:22, Neil Bowers ha scritto: > Should I die, then the time-limits in (1) and (3) do not apply. Drop this, as difficult to verify (for various reasons), and +1 from me. -- bronto

Re: Mocking Net::Ping's ping method

2014-08-18 Thread Marco Marongiu
Watch out Matthew, your module is showing up with the name of "v0.09" currently. Check your code. https://metacpan.org/release/MMUSGROVE/v0.09 Ciao -- bronto

Re: Help w/ naming module

2017-09-21 Thread Marco Marongiu
On 21/09/17 23:11, Karen Etheridge wrote: > Given that there is so much prior art in this space already -- is it > useful to release one more variant to the CPAN, vs. simply keeping it in > your darkpan? Is anyone likely to discover your module and choose it > over any other? For what is worth,

Re: rt.cpan.org is going away

2021-03-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
Thanks for the effort you guys put into this Ciao -- bronto On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 12:03 Aaron Trevena, wrote: > Hi All, > > As some of you may have noticed - rt.cpan.org hasn't gone away and has > been upgraded to RT5 with help and support from best practical - no > mean feat given the age and c

Re: The passing of Spider Boardman

2021-05-25 Thread Marco Marongiu
Sad news indeed. It's even more painful considering that the numbers of the infection are sinking but he could not benefit of it. My condolences to the family. -- bronto Il Mer 26 Mag 2021, 02:34 Neil Bowers ha scritto: > I’m sad to have to report that Raun "Spider" Boardman (SPIDB on CPAN) ha

RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
-O -v 0.01 Date::Iterator SEE ALSO The wonderful Date::Calc module AUTHOR Marco Marongiu, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2003 by Marco Marongiu This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
Andy Wardley wrote: Marco Marongiu wrote: NAME Date::Iterator - Iterate over a range of dates Nice! Thanks Andy! $i = Date::Iterator->new( from => [2003,12,1], to => [2003,12,10] ) As a matter of convenience, can I suggest that in addition to list references you also al

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Marco Marongiu wrote: Date::Iterator - Iterate over a range of dates I like it! Thanks Josh! I recently needed to handle the same thing, but also needed to be able to handle hourly steps. Would it be possible to add support for something like

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
does just one, very specific thing. DateTime::Set is flexible, powerful... but when you just need to iterate over a range of days with a constant step, it looks overkill to me. DateTime::Set covers about all cases one could need to handle. Mine covers just one case. Ciao --bron

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
tepad now! Thank you Ciao --bronto -- Marco MarongiuEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Phone: +39 070 460 1684 Tiscali S.p.A.Fax: +39 070 460 9684 International IT Services

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
yway, I agree with you: from the docs you have the feeling that all the framework is a lot complicated... Ciao --bronto -- Marco MarongiuEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Phone: +39 070 460 1684 Tiscali S.p.A.Fax: +39 070 460 9684 International IT Services

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread Marco Marongiu
o write on top and bottom of the docs an advice like "this is a small module and does a few things; you probabily want to take a look at DateTime and DateTime::Event::Recurrence <http://datetime.perl.org>"? Waiting for a new advice... Ciao and thanks again --bronto -- M

Date::Iterator, pollution, rating system, and how to make CPAN a better place [was: Re: RFC: Date::Iterator]

2003-12-23 Thread Marco Marongiu
Oh my, oh my... what a mess! :-) Ok, it's time to have a few conclusions about this discussion. Some of these conclusions are more general than my module and involve the CPAN as a whole. Some like my module, some don't. Some would like to see it on CPAN, some don't. About *not putting* it on

Re: Date::Iterator, pollution, rating system, and how to make CPAN a better place [was: Re: RFC: Date::Iterator]

2004-01-07 Thread Marco Marongiu
e comments, with this one last. I see your reasons. If Steffen Beyer allows me to do so, I'll call the module Date::Calc::Iterator::Day, implement many of the proposed changes I had here and put it on CPAN. Thanks to everybody for the time you took to discuss this module. Ciao Marco --

Re: Fields in Makefile.PL

2004-11-02 Thread Marco Marongiu
Jose Alves de Castro wrote: I'm trying to normalize some modules, regarding tests, Makefile.PL, etc. I have a question: what fields do you find required or advisable in every Makefile.PL? I usually have NAME, VERSION_FROM, PREREQ_PM, AUTHOR... am I missing something important? Run h2xs, they ver

Re: Hash::HasKeys

2005-08-12 Thread Marco Marongiu
Ovid ha scritto: > It's almost embarrassing to upload a Hash::HasKeys module to the CPAN, > but I rewrite this code *all* the time (and always forget about "die if > extra_keys()"). Before I embarrass myself by writing and uploading > something so simple and special-purpose, tell me there's some

Re: HOW-TO for publishing a perl module?

2005-09-27 Thread Marco Marongiu
Tim Bunce wrote: > But I'm sure there's decent docs somewhere with more details of 'best > practice' so I'm CC'ing this to module-authors@perl.org (not least > because I'll being uploading a new module myself soonish). What about "Writing Perl modules for CPAN" by Sam Tregar? Ciao --bronto