I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
Andreas said he'd introduce me, but I'll introduce myself :) I just volunteered to help out here, and so here I am. I think most of you know me already, so I won't really bother giving my life story or anything. I see a few emails today which I have comments/thoughts on, including: Diff.pm/Pat

Archive::Zip still not indexed properly

2001-08-26 Thread Ned Konz
Hi, People are still writing me saying that Archive::Zip isn't being found in the indexes by CPAN.pm. Can this be fixed? Thanks, -- Ned Konz currently: Stanwood, WA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://bike-nomad.com

User update for EHOOD

2001-08-26 Thread Perl Authors Upload Server
(This Mail was generated by the server https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery;ACTION=edit_cred automatically) Record update in the PAUSE users database: userid: [EHOOD] fullname: [Earl Hood] asciiname: [] email: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] homepage: [http://www.earlhood.com/] was

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Chris Nandor
At 12:54 -0400 2001.08.26, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: >Andreas said he'd introduce me, but I'll introduce myself :) Hi! :) Welcome to the Pit of Despair, don't even think about trying to escape ... >LANGMEAD/Data::MacResFile > Data is a meaningless top-level namespace -- almost *every

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:17:16PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: | | While I agree with the first sentence, I don't agree with the second, | necessarily. First, there is no MacOS::, it is Mac::. ;-) Secondly and | far more importantly, traditionally, all modules in Mac:: and Win32:: and | VMS:: h

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Chris Nandor
At 16:25 -0400 2001.08.26, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: >On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:17:16PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: >| >| While I agree with the first sentence, I don't agree with the second, >| necessarily. First, there is no MacOS::, it is Mac::. ;-) Secondly and >| far more importantly, t

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:36:42PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: | > | >So most things get read, but only those that someone feels strongly about | >get replied to? | | That seems to be the case. | | >Having just come from "out there", it seems to me that the "silence | >is assent" technique is a b

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:54:05PM -0400, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: > Andreas said he'd introduce me, but I'll introduce myself :) > > I just volunteered to help out here, and so here I am. I think most of > you know me already, so I won't really bother giving my life story or > anything. Th

Re: I'm here.

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:01:31PM -0400, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote: > | > | I am not saying it is a great way to do it (and I wouldn't mind a better > | system); but part of the problem of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is that most of the > | people who can be on the list (that know enough about the issue

Re: Diff.pm => CPAN?, Patch.pm?

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily Robert
Barrie wrote: >I've written a Diff.pm that uses MJD's Algorithm::Diff to >produce old-style, context, and unified diffs and am planning to send it >CPAN-ward, either on it's own or as part of Ned Konz's diff package. > >I will also be writing a Patch.pm that can read (at first) unified diffs >and

Re: author ID request

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily Robert
Andrew Langmead wrote: >% your name: Andrew Langmead >% your email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >% your homepage if you have one: >% your preferred user-ID on CPAN: LANGMEAD >% a short description of what you're planning to contribute: > >The first thing I want to contribute is a cleaned up v

Re: Registering

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily Robert
David wrote: >Upload plans: I have recently written a DHCP module (Net::DHCP) that >enables a programmer to create a handle ($scalar = new Net::DHCP) and >thereby interact with a DHCP server through the internal methods of the >module. The module was written in compliance with RFC 2131(BOOTP) an

namespace registration request

2001-08-26 Thread Greg London
I'm requesting to register a namespace Parse::Nibbler It's for a parser which parses a large file a little bit at a time. (it nibbles at the file). please forward comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Greg London

PAUSE updates

2001-08-26 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
So, I ran some stats on the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED], both for its entire history and for just the last few months. About half the traffic of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is from the PAUSE auto-notifications (and more than half in recent times). Looking through the archives at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

Re: author ID request

2001-08-26 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:27:24PM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote: > >The first thing I want to contribute is a cleaned up version of > >Data::MacResFile, a module for non-Macintosh systems to read > >compontents out of a Macintosh resource file. > > Data:: is so generic it's almost meaningless... a

register for PAUSE

2001-08-26 Thread gene
Registration request for PAUSE. My info: name: Gene Cutler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] user-id: GENECUT description: A module that untaints user supplied text containing html tags so that it is safe to display in cgi-generated web pages.