Re: Deleting old modules. WAS: Re: Co-maint for Pod::Escapes

2014-02-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
On 02/09/2014 10:07 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: Can I delete (some) old items from here...? http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/ And: would this be a bad idea in some notable way? If they're releases of dists that have more recent releases on CPAN, then it's not a bad idea in any way. Cool. OK, if a

Deleting old modules. WAS: Re: Co-maint for Pod::Escapes

2014-02-09 Thread Sean M. Burke
On 02/08/2014 06:15 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: Just to close the loop... [...] When I previously adopted one of Sean's dists I was told he'd retired. This time I noticed that he wasn't listed in the permissions for the dist, so assumed[*] that the same applied for this dist. And then my email to th

Re: Co-maint for Pod::Escapes

2014-02-07 Thread Sean M. Burke
Hm, odd... CPAN shows my last release, 1.04, as being the most current release of the module, anywhere: http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Pod-Escapes-1.04/ ~But~ as I look in PAUSE, I don't see it as belonging to me at all. Owner: ARANDAL Co-maint: LTOETSCH Co-maint: NEIL

Re: Co-maint for Pod::Escapes

2014-02-07 Thread Sean M. Burke
Short answer: On 02/07/2014 03:44 PM, Matt S Trout wrote: [...] I strongly suspect he'll be entirely in favour of your adopting an old module of his but I'd like a double check - or if you already did that and I'm quite in favor of it-- in fact, I thought I had given away all the important Po

Burke module giveaway

2011-12-06 Thread Sean M. Burke
I seek advice on software licenses! In many cases, my modules' current documentation says, as copyright/license, simply "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself." But I'm told that modern practice involves explicitly making cl

Re: Burke giving away modules (Was: Re: [Neil Bowers] Fwd: Lingua::EN::Numbers - request for co-maintainer status)

2011-12-06 Thread Sean M. Burke
Three weeks ago, On 11/14/2011 11:54 PM, Sean M. Burke wrote: (I'm having to remove cc-ing perl.modules, because my mailer can't handle that. Please forward as you like.) On 11/14/2011 06:29 PM, brian d foy wrote: If you'd like to transfer that distribution, we can take care of

Burke giving away modules (Was: Re: [Neil Bowers] Fwd: Lingua::EN::Numbers - request for co-maintainer status)

2011-11-14 Thread Sean M. Burke
(I'm having to remove cc-ing perl.modules, because my mailer can't handle that. Please forward as you like.) On 11/14/2011 06:29 PM, brian d foy wrote: If you'd like to transfer that distribution, we can take care of the details for you. If you'd like to make all of your modules available for

Re: [Neil Bowers] Fwd: Lingua::EN::Numbers - request for co-maintainer status

2011-11-13 Thread Sean M. Burke
On 11/11/2011 02:08 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: Neil, I've made you co-maintainer of Lingua::EN::Numbers. I know you as a conscientiously and thoroughly working man and I'm glad you're persuing the fix of the bug you discovered. I would believe that it's in the best interest of Sean that you tak

Re: Please help - PAUSE not responding to user ID request

2003-08-21 Thread Sean M. Burke
s down": http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: RFC: lack of registrations (modules@perl.org)

2003-08-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
it is that registration means and implicates), nor what difference there is between Modulelist registration and PAUSE ownership. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

modules@perl.org traffic

2003-08-03 Thread Sean M. Burke
quot;User update for" messages ever of any interest? And the others, what are their purposes? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: top-level module list out of date?

2003-08-02 Thread Sean M. Burke
, and that can be found through search.cpan.org. This may reveal my ignorance of these things, but I too have to say I've never understood what the /modules/00modlist.long.html file was/is. Nor do I know why its timestamp says "Date: 2002/08/27 23:28:18". -- Sean M. Burkeht

Re: New module/namespace query: Pod::DocBookXML

2003-07-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 04:32 PM 2003-07-26 +0100, Sagar Shah wrote: So i've got two options of a base: 1) Meta::Lang::Pod::DocBook 2) Pod::XML I say choose option three: Pod::Simple. Look at Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream for an example. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: New module/namespace query: Pod::DocBookXML

2003-07-26 Thread Sean M. Burke
ould use a stylesheet to transform into XML, but introduces an extra processing step... and there might be issues with ids on sections Sounds good to me. I'd be thrilled to see a modern DocBook converter. What Pod parser module will your converter be based on? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Where to go for advanced user help on modules, esp. Parse::RecDescent?

2003-06-30 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 02:09 AM 2003-07-01 +0200, Adrian Aichner wrote: In particular I would be interested in learning what Emacs editing modes people are using to auto-indent Parse::RecDescent grammars. Have you asked Damian? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission HTML::Hard::Disk

2003-06-21 Thread Sean M. Burke
east 8 characters long. I presume you mean "at most". Is an 8-character naming limit still recommended? I've written lots of modules with name components over 8 characters and haven't heard of any trouble coming from it. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission HTML::Hard::Disk

2003-06-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
, even repaired as HTML::HardDisk, is unclear. A suggestion that occurs to me: HTML::LocalizeLinks -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Lingua::Identification

2003-06-17 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 11:16 AM 2003-06-17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this relate to > http://search.cpan.org/author/MPIOTR/Lingua-Ident-1.4/Ident.pm > at all? Only in the purpose. [...] Excellent! I love it! -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Lingua::Identification

2003-06-16 Thread Sean M. Burke
/Ident.pm at all? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission US_DOD::FSM

2003-06-11 Thread Sean M. Burke
them at some URL and have L<http://somehost/whatever#> links? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission US_DOD::FSM

2003-06-06 Thread Sean M. Burke
ty and will probably remain so until I complete my Stalin-like purge -- but Pod::Html, steaming pile that it is, still knows to render L<http://whatever> as http://whatever";>http://whatever. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission US_DOD::FSM

2003-06-06 Thread Sean M. Burke
cs in CPAN. But yeah, Doc::* would be nice. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

RSS for this list

2003-06-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
perimental, so let me know if you run into any trouble with it. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Tk::Program

2003-06-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
idea! (And I'm saying that not just because I recently wrote a vaguely similar kind of module, Getopt::Janus.) -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Military::STD2167A

2003-06-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
r as a new rootlevel, if there is a current rootlevel where this module will fit, feel free to change Military to whatever. Maybe under Test:: ... ? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Nagios::Web_Trx

2003-06-03 Thread Sean M. Burke
modid: Nagios::Web_Trx What do we think about modules with underscores in their names? Are they a problem for anyone? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: RFC Nagios Namespace.

2003-05-29 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 02:59 PM 2003-05-28 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: Nagios::* is appropriate here. Okiedoke! -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: The Hotmail Hack

2003-05-28 Thread Sean M. Burke
place for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list? I'd really like to have the filters suppress messages that have attachments with creepy extensions (.doc|.bat|.src|.exe|.lnk|.com|.pif|.xls) before they make it to this (or any other?) list. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: RFC Nagios Namespace.

2003-05-28 Thread Sean M. Burke
f services such as web pages or transactions, MS Domains, CPU utilisation etc by scheduling checks and managing the alerting, logging, retrying etc of results that indicate a service failure. Sys::Nagios maybe? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: RFC Nagios Namespace.

2003-05-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
:Nagios...)? I know that this principle hasn't been consistently applied, but I do like to discourage people from creating new top-level things when it's avoidable. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: New module/namespace query: Script::Delegate

2003-05-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
be Getopt::CallingName. Neither "script" nor "delegation" are informative to the un-initiated. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Namespace query.

2003-04-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
to which I could fit? I suppose it /could/ go in Audio. But a Music:: would be nice, I think. A look at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/ reveals that nobody else is exactly hesitant to create toplevels. -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Bovlam::Simple

2003-04-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 4/12/2003 11:40 AM +0200, Andreas Jensen wrote: From: "Sean M. Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > While you were explaining that bovlam is interesting, especially for Danes, > and necessary, and unique, you forgot to say what it /is/. Sorry... I missed that one. Basically i

Re: PAUSE ID request (KAFKA; Nicolas Herry)

2003-04-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 10:39 PM 2003-04-05 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: "Sean M. Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why are these email addresses censored? To avoid them being exposed on the mailing list. That is perilously close to a useless tautology. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: PAUSE ID request (KAFKA; Nicolas Herry)

2003-04-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 10:45 AM 2003-04-05 +0200, you wrote: Request to register new user fullname: Nicolas Herry userid: KAFKA mail: CENSORED homepage: http://www.madrognon.net why: Why are these email addresses censored? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: PAUSE ID request (KAFKA; Nicolas Herry)

2003-04-05 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 10:45 AM 2003-04-05 +0200, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: A little framework of useful pseudo-objects : Filesystem, Compression, Conversions, etc. What's a pseudo-object? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: Module submission Linux::LVM

2003-04-04 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 02:15 PM 2003-04-04 +0200, ckerner wrote: modid: Linux::LVM DSLIP: bdpfp description: Interface into the Linux LVM information. I wonder: would an expansion of the "LVM" acronym fit into the description? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

Re: POD::Simple::DumpAsXML went retroversion

2002-11-21 Thread Sean M. Burke
just to double-check to avoid this happening. I'll have Pod::Simple 0.95 deleted -- but CPAN deletions take a week to process, regrettably! -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

Re: HTML-Format ownership?

2002-10-30 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 08:30 2002-10-30 +, Graham Barr wrote: Maybe you were not patient enough, I see it there now http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/HTML-Format-1.24/ Okay, problem solved! -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

HTML-Format ownership?

2002-10-29 Thread Sean M. Burke
step? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

Pod-Simple-31337-0.02

2002-09-29 Thread Sean M. Burke
Sep 2002 Latest Release Pod-Simple-31337-0.0227 Sep 2002 Apparently it's parsing Pod-Simple-31337-0.02 as version Pod-Simple, version 31337-0.02 ! The question is, what is "it" -- CPAN, PAUSE, or search.cpan.org? And how to fix this? -- Sean M. Burkehttp://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

makepmdist 1.02

2002-04-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
t that such options might be useful as you're developing the module. -- Sean M. Burkehttp://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

makepmdist

2002-02-16 Thread Sean M. Burke
robably have questions, and they are probably answered in the Pod that's at the end of that program file. -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: ancient HTML::Parser + HTML::Entities in HTML-Stream-1.49 !?

2001-08-03 Thread Sean M. Burke
using Perl "on PCs" (by which you mean "under MSWin", I assume) are using ActiveState's Perl which has, for years now, come with HTML::Parser and HTML::Entities. (And if it didn't, they could use ppm.) >I suppose I can delete them. Yes, please delete them and redist your module anew. -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

ancient HTML::Parser + HTML::Entities in HTML-Stream-1.49 !?

2001-08-02 Thread Sean M. Burke
) $Id: Parser.pm,v 2.1 1996/05/26 10:25:34 aas Exp $(v2.01) Why? Happily, they don't get installed. But why distribute them? -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: HTML::Tree oddity

2001-01-28 Thread Sean M. Burke
distinction between "X is in CPAN" and "X is an indexed module dist in CPAN". In fact, after years of putting module dists in CPAN, it was just last week that I uploaded my first non-module thing to CPAN -- a script called crontab2english -- it's now in CPAN, but is clearly

HTML::Tree oddity

2001-01-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
g/modules/by-module/HTML/ Is some part of CPAN out of sync with some other part? And, more pointedly, can someone just go delete Lucas's module, since he's made a surly point of forgetting to do so? -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: HTTP::Request::Form and TreeBuilder.pm (fwd)

2000-11-15 Thread Sean M. Burke
lly going to do, and when are you actually going to do it? -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: HTML_Tree and HTML::Tree and HTML-Tree

2000-09-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
tly the introductory information that I think they need -- a doc that gives an overview of TreeBuilder and Element, and explains basic concepts. -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

HTML_Tree and HTML::Tree and HTML-Tree

2000-09-12 Thread Sean M. Burke
Someone (CPJL) just uploaded a dist to CPAN called HTML_Tree (in full, "HTML_Tree-1.2.3.tar.gz") including a module HTML::Tree. Am I the only one who thinks this risks confusion with me and Gisle Aas's preexisting HTML-Tree dist? -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http:

modlist lines for many modules of mine

2000-08-26 Thread Sean M. Burke
HTML SBURKE ::TreeBuilder rdpO make a parse-tree from HTML SBURKE (note that HTML::Element is currently reported as owned by LWWWP) -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/