Help with naming: generic terminal/console interface

2003-01-08 Thread John Porter
Hi. I have a written a module which provides a generic interface to the color/attribute capabilites of some common terminal types, mainly VT102/ANSI and the Windows command window Console. It also (currently) targets an HTML generator backend, and a "no op" backend which simply ignores color/attrib

Re: Namespace for an application?

2001-06-28 Thread John Porter
e the problem of potential collision; the names should be unique, whether they're under Apps:: or not. Tracker:: might do. -- John Porter

Re: Namespace dor Director/Shockwave related modules

2000-12-29 Thread John Porter
think Lingo ought to be in the name. And since Lingo is specific to a proprietary product, that also ought to be in the name (thus ruling out Director and Multimedia, as being too general). And the Macromedia namespace might be considered to be reserved a priori by the company. That leaves Shockwave::Lingo. -- John Porter What would Gabrielle do?

Re: Request to create AI:: namespace & category

2000-12-06 Thread John Porter
cuments were present on the latter but not the former. Something smells stale... -- John Porter It's also easier to withhold forgiveness than to deny permission.

please register module

2000-08-14 Thread John Porter
Please register my module, Crypt::RandPasswd. Info on the module is at: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-RandPasswd The name was sanctioned in: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules/2000-07/msg00057.html Thanks. -- John Porter

Re: RFC: name for std-based passwd generator?

2000-07-06 Thread John Porter
ndPasswd. Then, if no one has any other opinions, I'll go with Crypt::RandPasswd. -- John Porter Just another perky hacker.

RFC: name for std-based passwd generator?

2000-07-05 Thread John Porter
ainst the adage, "names should not say HOW", but in this case, many of the module's potential users will be looking specifically for an implementation of this standard, since it is *required* in some gov't agencies. I'm also not sure what top-level to put it under; maybe

RFC: HTML::Demoroniser

2000-02-08 Thread John Porter
I have taken John Walker's famous "demoroniser" program and converted it into a module. HTML::Demoroniser ok? Description at: http://www.dctd.saic.com/~jporter/html/Demoroniser.html"> http://www.dctd.saic.com/~jporter/html/Demoroniser.html Thanks, John Porter

RFC: Statistics::SGT

2000-01-31 Thread John Porter
but maybe Statistics::SimpleGoodTuring is better... or -- yuck -- Statistics::GoodTuring::Simple. Opinions? -- John Porter "There are people who have fun studying the C++ spec for literally seconds on end, I'm sure..."John Vlissides