Re: Module submission Alien

2003-10-06 Thread Arthur Bergman
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 04:06 pm, Tim Bunce wrote: There's no need (or mechanism) to register the name of a namespace, only the module(s) within it, e.g., Alien::zlib. But I think there should be an Alien.pm to provide, (interfaces to) services that Alien::foo modules will need such as che

Re: Module submission DBIx::CodeKit

2003-06-04 Thread Arthur Bergman
On fredag, maj 16, 2003, at 14:13 Europe/Stockholm, John Gorman wrote: DBIx::CodeKit - Universal Code Description Lookup Table DBIx::BabelKit - Multilingual Code Description Lookup Table Arthur Can you make the above descriptions official? No, but you can do it yourself from inside pause.perl

Re: Module submission Function::ID

2003-03-31 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, mar 31, 2003, at 14:45 Europe/Stockholm, Eric J. Roode wrote: Devel::Self? ...no, that sounds like a program that writes itself. Devel::This? Hm. That could work. That also opens the door for future functionality. Like say $this_package or something. (Yes, I know about __PACKAGE_

Re: Module submission Lingua::Beatnik

2003-03-31 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, mar 30, 2003, at 16:09 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: Lingua::Beatnik DSLIP: idpOg description: Interpreter for Beatnik language userid: BEATNIK (Hendrik Van Belleg

Re: Module submission Function::ID

2003-03-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, mar 30, 2003, at 14:12 Europe/Stockholm, Autrijus Tang wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:37:43AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: I think Tie::FunctionID is wrong since the fact that the variables are tied is in this case implmentation specific and not function specific. Point. Devel

Re: Module submission Exporter::Tidy

2003-03-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, mar 30, 2003, at 12:18 Europe/Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PAUSE describes chapter 2 as: 2) Perl Core Modules, Perl Language Extensions and Documentation Tools But in the submission itself it is described as: 2 (Perl_Core_Modules) My guess is that that is why Arthur didn't w

Re: Module submission Function::ID

2003-03-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, mar 30, 2003, at 08:28 Europe/Stockholm, Autrijus Tang wrote: Strange; I did not see that. % zgrep 'Function::' 03modlist.data.gz | wc 0 0 0 Although Schwern has a Function::Override, it's not included in the official CPAN module list. Will, say, Tie:

Re: Module submission Module::Include

2003-03-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, mar 30, 2003, at 00:52 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: Module::Include allows you to upstream duplication in Perl projects. It stores code both inline (between #include and #end statements) and in a repository module that is a subclass of Module::Inc

Re: Module submission OODoc

2003-03-26 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, mar 26, 2003, at 18:06 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: Last week I tried to get response from this modules list, but there was none. I know you are all very busy, but I can't wait too much longer. Therefore, I now ask for the name space officially. S

Re: Module submission Simulation::Particle

2003-03-26 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, mar 26, 2003, at 16:34 Europe/Stockholm, Autrijus Tang wrote: Gawd, this is embarrasing. I made comments based on an outdated module list from www.cpan.org: % HEAD http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html |grep Modified Last-Modified: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:40:25 GMT I se

Re: Module submission PLP

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 14:59 Europe/Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:50:00PM +0100, Arthur Bergman wrote: On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 14:31 Europe/Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTML is wrong with HTML::PLP. Nothing's stopping you from serving xml

Re: Module submission PLP

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 11:20 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: similar: Embperl Mason etcetera rationale: Doesn't fit in the Apache:: namespace because it is not Apache-specific, doesn't fit in CGI:: because it is not CGI-specific and doesn't fit in Tex

Re: Registration

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, mar 24, 2003, at 19:25 Europe/Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Whenever(1) I upload a new module, I register it as recommended. But what happens next? I'm asking because I only ever received response about Attribute::Property. It seems nothing was done with the 5 other namespa

Re: Module submission B::Keywords

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 05:55 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: B::Keywords DSLIP: bdpnp description: Lists of reserved barewords and symbol names userid: JJORE (Joshua ben

Re: This is getting ridiculous. . .

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 07:36 Europe/Stockholm, Robert Spier wrote: Robert, has anybody talked with you if and how RT could work for managing module namespace requests? You probably know how the process currently is structured: The idea comes up periodically, and I mention it to someone about

Re: Module submission Metacode::Reader

2003-03-25 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, mar 25, 2003, at 05:49 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The data format being parsed is known as 'Xerox Metacode'. In the interest of not having a root level 'Xerox' category I named this 'Metacode::Reader'. This module implements a simple parser for th

Re: Module submission DNSSEC::Maint

2002-11-13 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, nov 13, 2002, at 22:45 Europe/Stockholm, Olaf Kolkman wrote: * * Ok, what about Crypt::DNSSEC::Maint The package is not really a crypto implementation. The package is more a systems management package, tailored to a very specific problem, more than anything else. I understand and

Re: Module submission DNSSEC::Maint

2002-11-12 Thread Arthur Bergman
Net::DNS::SEC::Maint ? Arthur On tisdag, nov 12, 2002, at 08:53 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: DNSSEC::Maint DSLIP: cdpOd description: DNSSEC key maintenance and signing utilitie

Re: Tie::LookupAsFunction

2002-11-10 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, nov 10, 2002, at 06:22 Europe/Stockholm, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Muir Sharnoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to allocate a module name: Tie::LookupAsFunction. i'd like to see a more descriptive module name, perhaps Tie::Hash::Compute

Re: Module submission News::yEnc

2002-11-08 Thread Arthur Bergman
I vote for Convert::yEnc. Arthur On torsdag, nov 7, 2002, at 21:11 Europe/Stockholm, Philip Newton wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:38:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perl Authors Upload Server) wrote: The yEnc format was developed for encoding usenet binaries, and that is currently its most

Re: Module submission Win32::ANSIConsole

2002-11-06 Thread Arthur Bergman
Hi, If it is a pragma, I tend to think it should be named a as a pragma, especially when it works with input/output. Then perhaps it should be named IO::ANSI::Win32 or similar ? Arthur On onsdag, nov 6, 2002, at 16:21 Europe/Stockholm, Jean-Louis MOREL wrote: At 08:47 05/11/2002 +0100, you w

Re: VFS on CPAN

2002-11-06 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, nov 6, 2002, at 18:32 Europe/Stockholm, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On onsdag, nov 6, 2002, at 13:36 Europe/Stockholm, Piers Harding wrote: Please submit new requests for VFS and VFS::Gnome and I will

Re: VFS on CPAN

2002-11-06 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, nov 6, 2002, at 13:36 Europe/Stockholm, Piers Harding wrote: OK -if that's the vote then I will live with it. As I said the GnomeVFS case is slightly different in that that is the name of the library ( http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/index.html ) - but in the interest

Re: VFS on CPAN

2002-11-06 Thread Arthur Bergman
Hi, Just because the library is named GnomeVFS doesn't mean it have to have that name on CPAN does it? Doesn't VFS::Gnome give enough credit to the underlying library? Why do we need to to say the obscure acronym ;) twice in 15 characters, taking up 6! I don't really mind between VFS:: and Fil

Re: Module submission VFS

2002-11-05 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, nov 5, 2002, at 17:28 Europe/Stockholm, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having reconsidered this, VFS matches the already existant VCS which already exists. If noone else has anything to add I will approv

Re: Module submission XML::SAXDriver::Vcard

2002-11-05 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, nov 5, 2002, at 14:23 Europe/Stockholm, Aaron Straup Cope wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Arthur Bergman wrote: Does this really belong in the XML namespace since Vcards are not XML? The package is a "SAX driver" which parse non-XML data into XML in the form of SAX2 event

Re: Module submission VFS

2002-11-04 Thread Arthur Bergman
wrote: On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002, at 18:25 Australia/Melbourne, Arthur Bergman wrote: Hi, This sounds like a really nice idea finally being implemented, however I am unsure if it really needs a top level namespace and if not Filesys::Virtual would be a better more describing name for

Re: Module submission Win32::ANSIConsole

2002-11-04 Thread Arthur Bergman
Perhaps Win32::Console::ANSI would be a better name? Arthur On lördag, nov 2, 2002, at 17:06 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: Win32::ANSIConsole DSLIP: bdpnp description: Emulate A

Re: Module submission XML::SAXDriver::Vcard

2002-11-04 Thread Arthur Bergman
Does this really belong in the XML namespace since Vcards are not XML? Arthur On måndag, nov 4, 2002, at 06:43 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: XML::SAXDriver::Vcard DSLIP: bdpOp d

Re: Module update for Time::JulianDateTime

2002-11-01 Thread Arthur Bergman
On torsdag, okt 31, 2002, at 00:59 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: Record update in the PAUSE modules database: modid: [Time::JulianDateTime] statd: [a] stats: [d] statl: [p] stati: [f] statp: [p] description: [Astronomical Julian D

Re: Module submission Library

2002-10-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 20:22 Europe/Stockholm, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:51:28AM -0600, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Simes/epl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well.. I didn't rationalize a lot about the Library namespace because I've done that

Re: PAUSE registration request

2002-10-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 20:03 Europe/Stockholm, Jim Schueler wrote: BerkeleyDB::Tie This module provides some implementation ready functionality to Paul Marquess's BerkeleyDB module. Thanks, Could you please get Pauls ok with this?

Re: New module Time::JulianDateTime

2002-10-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 18:45 Europe/Stockholm, _brian_d_foy wrote: The next version of the Module List will list the following module: modid: Time::JulianDateTime i thought the author decided against this name for Time::JulianDayTime, which you also registered. Yes was I a

Re: Module submission XML::Simple::PurePerl

2002-10-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 18:44 Europe/Stockholm, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for coming in late in the discussion, but how does this relate to the XML::Simple module? And other module maintainers, doe

Re: Module submission Library

2002-10-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
I think you need a better rationale why there should be a new top level namespace On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 09:58 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: modid: Library DSLIP: SmpOg descripti

Re: Ghostscript.pm - an appropriate module name?

2002-10-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
On söndag, okt 27, 2002, at 03:19 Europe/Stockholm, Forrest Cahoon wrote: Hey folks -- I have a module which I've called "Ghostscript.pm" and currently have made available at http://www.wiredaemons.com/forrest/Ghostscript.html. It provides a perl hook into the Ghostscript API -- see my wiredae

Re: Module submission XML::Simple::PurePerl

2002-10-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
Sorry for coming in late in the discussion, but how does this relate to the XML::Simple module? And other module maintainers, doesn't the XML::Simple namespace belonge to the XML::Simple module author? Arthur On måndag, okt 28, 2002, at 03:47 Europe/Stockholm, Perl Authors Upload Server wr

Re: Module submission VFS

2002-10-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
Hi, This sounds like a really nice idea finally being implemented, however I am unsure if it really needs a top level namespace and if not Filesys::Virtual would be a better more describing name for people not knowing what the concept of a VFS is. Arthur On tisdag, okt 29, 2002, at 02:47 E

Re: Naming question

2002-10-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
On onsdag, okt 30, 2002, at 05:25 Europe/Stockholm, King, Jason G wrote: I have just subclassed Dave Rolsky's Log::Dispatch::Output with a windows event log module that provides the windows event log as an output channel. Dave already has such other subclassed modules as Log::Dispatch::File,

Re: Module submission Sys::Load

2002-08-31 Thread Arthur Bergman
On lördag, augusti 31, 2002, at 02:02 , Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: > > The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: > > modid: Sys::Load > DSLIP: bdhfp > description: Module to get the current system load > userid: BARABAS (Peter Barabas) >

Re: The Env::C namespace

2002-08-22 Thread Arthur Bergman
On torsdag, augusti 22, 2002, at 10:12 , Stas Bekman wrote: > > Do what? Set env vars? Of course it should... if it's safe. But as you > can see from the recent mod_perl thread about Oracle DBD not working > with mod_perl 2.0 when %ENV was set in the registry script, since %ENV > isn't tied t

Re: The Env::C namespace

2002-08-22 Thread Arthur Bergman
On torsdag, augusti 22, 2002, at 05:40 , Stas Bekman wrote: > > Sometimes Perl invokes modules with underlaying C APIs which rely on > certain environment variables to be set, if these variables are set > in > Perl and the glue code doesn't worry to set them on the C level, > these

Re: Hash::Case Ignored?

2002-08-03 Thread Arthur Bergman
On fredag, augusti 2, 2002, at 03:49 , Mark Overmeer wrote: Hi, About two months ago, I registered a new module, however it seems nobody cared to take any action. Can anyone have a look at it this time? Module Hash::Case, original message http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/2002

Re: New module ADT

2002-07-31 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, juli 30, 2002, at 07:59 , Janek Schleicher wrote: > > I do believe it's important to have this top level domain. > But I also do believe that it is important > that this top level domain is common, > what will mean, > that it isn't registered to anybody :-) > On the contrary, I belie

Re: New module ADT

2002-07-31 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, juli 30, 2002, at 06:16 , Tim Bunce wrote: > >> New top level for implmentation of Abstract Data Types. > > What I don't follow is what an ADT.pm would contain. > > Tim. > > My idea was for introspection so you at runtime can check what different ADTs are available and different imp

Re: New module ADT

2002-07-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On tisdag, juli 30, 2002, at 04:49 , Tim Bunce wrote: > > Isn't very descriptive. What is it? > > Tim. > I wrote that in my proposal some time ago New top level for implmentation of Abstract Data Types. Arthur

Re: Module submission Math::Business::BlackSch

2002-07-30 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juli 29, 2002, at 07:42 , Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: > > I'm flexible on the module name. Unfortunately, "BlackScholes" > violates the 11-char limit. Math::Business already exists, and > seemed like a logical place. I'm calling this "beta" (even though it > has

Re: CPAN Upload: E/EL/ELIZABETH/Thread-Needs-0.01.tar.gz

2002-07-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juli 29, 2002, at 12:50 , Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > At 10:44 AM 7/29/02 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: >> "Thread::Needs" isn't a very descriptive name - it's too general. >> Something like "Thread::NeedsModules" would be better. > > Hmmm... if that's the only problem you have with it,

Re: Request for Comments - module naming

2002-07-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
On torsdag, juli 25, 2002, at 08:01 , James G Smith wrote: > From: James G Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: tor jul 25, 2002 08:01:59 Europe/Stockholm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Request for Comments - module naming > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm working

Re: Math::Business:BlackSch

2002-07-29 Thread Arthur Bergman
On fredag, juli 26, 2002, at 04:35 , Anders Johnson wrote: > > I applied to register Math::Business::BlackSch and uploaded it over 6 > months > ago, and I haven't heard a thing from Perl-land. Am I doing something > wrong? > > Thanks, > &ers > > > Hi, Could you please resubmit the request an

Re: [CAUTION] Thread-saving modules

2002-07-21 Thread Arthur Bergman
Huh, Huh Huh I think I will find this is not really a threads bug, will look at it. Arthur On söndag, juli 21, 2002, at 08:22 , Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > This may be of interest to module authors who are looking at making > their modules thread-safe. This is particularly important if yo

Re: Module submission GEB::Hyphen

2002-07-08 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juli 8, 2002, at 08:38 , Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: > > The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: > > modid: GEB::Hyphen > DSLIP: adpOp > description: "Godel, Escher, Bach" hyphen languages > userid: DEREK (Derek Thomson) > c

Re: Module Submission - reminder

2002-07-01 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juli 1, 2002, at 08:32 , Philip Newton wrote: > And another reminder. (It's only been eight months since the first poke; > perhaps I shouldn't become impatient.) > >> (Please consider also Lingua::Zompist::Cuezi; see message-ID >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or URL >> http://www.x

Re: Module Submission - reminder

2002-07-01 Thread Arthur Bergman
On måndag, juli 1, 2002, at 08:35 , Philip Newton wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:32:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip > Newton) wrote: > >> And another reminder. (It's only been eight months since the first >> poke; >> perhaps I shouldn't become impatient.) > > Sorry, that was probably a b