Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> firstof.pm: A pragmatic module that allows you to give a list of
> alternative modules to attempt to load. firstof.pm will attempt to load
> the first module, and failing that will attempt to load the second module,
> and so on.
I haven't seen the discu
Andrei Nossov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have uploaded to CPAN several releases of the module
> DBIx::XMLMessage, but for some reason I cannot see
> them via "Edit Module Metadata" menu on the PAUSE..
>
> I am not sure if it has to happen automatically or
> should I do something about it?
Joao Pedro Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to ask for the creation of the top level namespace
> GPS
Sounds fine with me.
-- Johan
John BEPPU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anyone opposed to having an Embedix::* top-level namespace?
> Embedix is the name of the Linux distro put out by Lineo, and I have
> a few modules that I'd like to contribute in the near future
> in this namespace.
Sounds like something similar to VMS:
Andreas Jaekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My questions are:
> o should I upload this module? Considering the other template modules,
>some of it's features are already on CPAN. But then, a general-purpose
>caching template module with callbacks, error handling and directory
>trave
Joergen Haegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I assume CPAN isn't interested in non-free licenses.
> (I wouldn't use a non-free module if there are alternatives.)
I'd say we prefer stuff that is free. Having a non-free module on CPAN
is okay, as long as it is possible to distribute it over the net
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:23:28AM +0100, Henrik Jönsson wrote:
> I guess it means "to be specified",
Indeed.
> I didn't put it there.
I did. Henrik didn't specify a description, so I used 'tbs'. What would
have been the right policy?
-- Johan
[Quoting Joergen Haegg, on December 11 2000, 16:56, in "Re: new perl module"]
> Maybe I can ask you what you think of the module name?
> Should I move to Config::Cfe or File::Cfe?
> Or something completely different?
Maybe. Can you describe in a couple of lines what the module does?
That would he
[Quoting Joergen Haegg, on December 11 2000, 22:45, in "Re: new perl module"]
> It is an implementation of the config editor in cfengine
> in perl, or rather cfengines idea, used to change configuration files
> in an easy an modular way. It is possible to tag sections
> of a file and then remove t
[Quoting Andreas J. Koenig, on December 12 2000, 09:19, in "Re: Module update fo"]
> >>>>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:37:59 +0100, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> "tbs" is OK now that I know. Leaving empty or a question mark was my
> po
[Quoting Joergen Haegg, on December 12 2000, 13:38, in "Re: new perl module"]
> But Config::Cfengine or Config::Cfe might be nice.
Fine.
> Config::cfengine may sound confusing, although it would
> show that it isn't OO.
There is no implied relationshio between the capitalisation of the
name and
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:06:07AM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
> When searching through large amounts of data, it is often the
> case that a result set is returned that is larger than we want
> to display on one page. This results in wanting to page through
> various pages of data.
Yanet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want's to know, where i can find libnet modules or MailTools module
> for Windows Nt in order to use in my intranet the program cgi-mailer.pl
The best way to search for modules is http://search.cpan.org . You
should have no problem finding libnet and MailToo
Chris Dagdigian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Name: Chris Dagdigian
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Homepage: http://bioperl.org
> Preferred userID: craffi
Done.
> Description of proposed contribution:
>
> Name DLSIDescription
>
Zach Lipton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I discussed this idea with the bugzilla team in #mozwebtools on the
> irc.mozilla.org server and received enthusiastic support as this would
> shorten the installation time for the product.
I appreciate the effort, but experience has taught me that the
h
[Quoting Ward, Trevor (T.R.), on December 19 2000, 08:04, in "PDFREP"]
> This was about 4-5 weeks ago I was hoping it may have been included but as
> yet I cannot find it.
Andreas sent you a reply. Did you get it?
-- Johan
[Quoting Andreas J. Koenig, on November 8 2000, 17:48, in "Re: ["War
[Quoting Ward, Trevor (T.R.), on December 20 2000, 06:27, in "RE: PDFREP"]
> I received the below reply but I was refering to the email I sent regarding
> the upload.
> of the actual package.
>
> Which I have not received anything about.
I have not been able to find it in my archives.
Maybe you
Hi y'all,
Often people ask for registration of a module they are going to
develop. My personal feeling is that not yet existing modules should
not be registered, but wait until they are actually released.
What are your ideas?
-- Johan
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:45:57PM -0500, Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
> I have written a module named "CheckList". Here's the synopsis from the
> documentation:
>
>Provides a mechanism for tracking a list of "to do" items. Each
>item can be added to the list any number of times, but is retur
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Brian Ingerson wrote:
> My concern is that people will want to take over namespaces like
> Inline::COBOL without consulting the Inline community.
Why are you afraid that people will do this? I assume that when someone
writes a Inline::WhatEver she will b
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:27PM -0500, Stephen Adkins wrote:
> I hate to do this, but I registered with CPAN a while back
> (two or three years?) and got the "spadkins" ID, but
> I have no idea what my password is.
>
> I looked all over CPAN searching for a better way to find
> it out than thi
Hi Trevor,
[Quoting Trevor Ward, on December 21 2000, 18:15, in "RE: PDFREP"]
> My pause id is TWIBBLER and I have today uploaded various files to this
> area.
>
> The primary file PDFREP.pm which is a report creation package in PDF format
> output file.
>
> There is also a PDFREP.htm file whic
[Quoting Zach Lipton, on December 21 2000, 19:38, in "Re: Bundle::Bugzilla"]
> Bugzilla does not require Data::ShowTable, at least not any more.
Okay, maybe I'm using an old version.
> Does this email mean that you are not excepting my application for
> this module and an account on PAUSE?
No,
[Quoting Miko O'Sullivan, on December 21 2000, 17:03, in "RE: Seeking namespac"]
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:45:57PM -0500, Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
> > > I have written a module named "CheckList". Here's the synopsis from the
> > > documentation:
> > >
> > >Provides a mechanism for tracking
[Quoting Sam Tregar, on December 30 2000, 00:03, in "CGI::Application::Ma"]
> It's a CGI::Application module that allows people to mail HTML pages to
> their friends. I'd like to call it CGI::Application::MailPage.
Have you considered CGI::Application::MailURL instead of MailPage? If
I understan
[Quoting Darren Duncan, on December 29 2000, 22:07, in "[RFC] need name for "]
> CGI::HashOfArrays - Perl module that implements a hash whose keys can
> have either single or multiple values, and which can process
> url-encoded data.
I would propose to split the functionality. For example,
Data
Fellow modulars,
What do you think?
-- Johan
Hello,
Inline.pm version 0.30 has just been released, along with Inline::CPR.
Inline::Python and Inline::CPP (by NEILW) will follow very shortly.
I am writing this to make aware my intentions and concerns regarding the
Inline namespace. Version
[Quoting Perl Authors Upload Server, on January 4 2001, 02:27, in "Module update for
PA"]
> Record update in the PAUSE modules database:
>
>modid: [PApp]
Shouldn't this be in some top level?
-- Johan
Hi Gregor,
[Quoting Gregor N. Purdy, on January 5 2001, 15:58, in "Modules belonging to"]
> Data::Address::Standardize, Chess::Referee, Env::Array, and psh
> (the Perl Shell) are my modules. If you will update the records
> accordingly, I'll be able to edit the metadata on PAUSE.
> Also, Lip-Pod,
[Quoting Andreas J. Koenig, on January 6 2001, 07:16, in "Re: forwarded messag"]
> >>>>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:55:04 +0100, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Fellow modulars,
> > What do you think?
>
> An option that go
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:30:04AM +0100, Manuel Valente wrote:
> Discussion: There are already a few modules which allow IP address
> manipulation and calculus - Net::IPv4Addr and NetAddr::IP are two such
> modules. At RIPE-NCC, we felt that these modules did not cover all the
> functionality th
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:28:22PM +0530, Dhwani Bhayani wrote:
> Sir,
>
> I wanted the perl modules for encryption and security but the
> link doen't works as http://search.cpan.org We are unable to
> resolve name.Please guide us the alternate URL
We'll try to found out what is wrong. In the m
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:09:10PM +0530, Dhwani Bhayani wrote:
> /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00404 -I/usr/lib/perl5
Please upgrade to a more recent version of Perl, at least 5.005_03.
-- Johan
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:08:02AM -0500, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> I have a CPAN id (JFITZ) which never had any modules activated under it. I
> don't have the password or access to the email account, but I would like to
> try to get my module activated with CPAN. I'm not sure how best to prove
[Quoting Robert Rothenberg, on February 17 2001, 15:46, in "Proposal: Graphics::"]
>
> I think a module which has common color names would be useful. The
> initial version would return RGB codes for a given name.
Not a bad idea, I would say.
Is there some kind of agreed-upon standard for color
[Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], on February 16 2001, 14:58, in "Register question"]
> The Name of this system is 3B2.
A proprietary piece of software, I assume?
> My idea is that all 3B2-Users can develop helpful functions and
> store them in the same folder.
I assume with 'folder' you mean 'namesp
[Quoting Benjamin Trott, on February 16 2001, 11:36, in "Net::SSH::perl: Modu"]
> Please register my distribution Net::SSH::perl. Here's the info:
Thanks for your contribution.
There is already a Net::SSH module on CPAN. Can you provide a quick
summary of the differences between this and your mo
[Quoting Chrsitopher Lam Quach, on February 16 2001, 14:57, in "Please help"]
> Can't locate Mail/Internet.pm in @INC
> (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/MIME
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/su
[Quoting Eric Roode, on March 1 2001, 14:00, in "Request for new auth"]
> I have found nothing on CPAN that resembles the first two modules.
Damian Conway's Tie::SecureHash module has a very similar feature.
Have you checked it?
-- Johan
[Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], on February 25 2001, 12:20, in "Incorrect Email Addr"]
> I was wondering where my ID had got to, but just assumed that you
> were busy! I just looked in the archive and noticed that you sent my
> "Welcome" message to the wrong email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rather t
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:07:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> PAUSE maintainers
>
> Could I please register myself on PAUSE.
No you can't. But we can ;-).
-- Johan
[Quoting Benjamin Trott, on March 12 2001, 13:03, in "Repost: Namespace re"]
> use IO::Buffer;
> my $buffer = IO::Buffer->new;
>
> ## Add a 32-bit integer.
> $buffer->put_int32(10932930);
>
> ## Get it back.
> my $int = $buffer->get_int32;
Somehow this doesn't look IO r
[Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], on March 13 2001, 03:12, in "i can't edit metadat"]
> My registration went through.
Yup.
> I was able to upload my module.
Good.
> My module is registered, since it shows up on CPAN.
No. If you have a CPAN id, you can upload modules. Registration is
only necessa
[Quoting Kevin A. Lenzo, on March 15 2001, 16:22, in "PAUSE not seeing all"]
> When I go to edit_mod (edit modules) on the PAUSE server,
> it asks me to let you know if anything is missing from the
> list -- it's not picking up SlideShow, which will soon
> be re-uploaded as WWW::SlideShow, and it
[Quoting Samuel Behan, on March 15 2001, 15:57, in "register"]
>
> Stupit question as first(i follow strictly all the instructions)
>Is there anybody out there ???
No, ain't nobody here but us, chickens.
;-)
-- Johan
[Quoting Benjamin Trott, on March 14 2001, 10:31, in "Re: Repost: Namespac"]
> How about Data::Buffer?
Better.
> No, sorry to be unclear. The get_* methods have to respect the order in
> which data was placed into the buffer by the put_* methods. So, for example,
> this is true:
But what happe
[Quoting Vipul Ved Prakash, on March 17 2001, 23:48, in "Suggestion for an ap"]
> A while ago I sent you a mail asking you if Convert::ASCII::Armour was
> appropriate name for a module that converts binary octets to ASCII
> armoured data.
Cute. One remark: American English speakers use 'armor', n
Sorry for the delay...
[Quoting Dave Rolsky, on March 18 2001, 10:51, in "2nd request: Params:"]
> Name: Params::Validate
> DSLI: bdpf
> Author: DROLSKY
> Description: Validate subroutine parameters based on type, class, or
> interface
Can you indicate the differences between Params::Validat
[Quoting Sergey Gribov, on March 19 2001, 14:59, in "CPAN id request"]
> Module Mixer.pm can be used for the sound mixer control. It allows
> to query / set various sound mixer parameters, the most usefull
> probably volume. It also includes as an example a simple volume
> control written in Perl/
[Quoting Sara Starre, on March 19 2001, 10:46, in "Please add an ID for"]
> INCList-1.0-tar-gz @INCLUDE-dir header display tool
>
> for starters, a script that displays the headers of
> modules in @INC, ports Windows and unix/linux
>
> this module descends into @INC dirs and extracts and
> displ
[Quoting Dave Rolsky, on March 19 2001, 13:05, in "Re: 2nd request: Par"]
> Good question. I didn't even know Getargs::Long existed. It looks like
> it was released after Params::Validate so that explains how I missed it.
>
> Anyway, having looked at it, I think I'd probably want to continue us
[Quoting Wolfgang Wiese, on March 20 2001, 18:02, in "Request for Namespac"]
> Digest::UserSID idph Managing session-id's with Digest::SHA1XWOLF
With a version 1.04, I expect it to be more than an 'idea'.
I entered it as alpha. Please update it needed.
-- Johan
[Quoting Karl Ward, on March 20 2001, 16:57, in "Procedure for Music:"]
> I got the namespace Music::GUIDO, but I need to use the namespace
> Music::GUIDO::Event, since now the Music::GUIDO module relies on a module
> called Event that uses Music::GUIDO subroutines (->new, ->print, ->AUTOLOAD,
> e
[Quoting Alessandro Forghieri, on March 23 2001, 14:52, in "Proposal: Attache.pm"]
> Attache.pm is an OO interface to the ClearCase
> (http:://www.rational.org) CLI facility on Win32 systems (attcmd). You
> need attcmd installed to be able to use this module.
>
> Should this thing be inserted som
[Quoting Alessandro Forghieri, on March 23 2001, 14:49, in "Proposed: Win32::API"]
> A truly trivial (XS) extension, yet nobody appears to have included
> in any Win32 package.
>
> I will upload it next week, unless somebody objects.
> Namespace issues, anybody?
Looks okay to me.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:50:01AM +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> It's been more than 36 hours since I have uploaded Devel::Datum to PAUSE,
> and although the file appears in my CPAN directory, I am unable to locate
> it on search.cpan.org:
It seems that the indices on search are outdated.
We'l
Hi all,
Do we have a policy for this?
-- Johan
Dear CPAN administrators,
We like to publish our script and modules to CPAN.
Our proposed registration data are:
name: Leader.IT S.r.l.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
homepage: www.leader.it
user-ID: LEADER_IT
descrip
I hate to say that being a PAUSE/modules maintainer is becoming a task
of more frustration than satisfaction. But that's the way I feel.
We all know that the current process of user and module registration
is not as perfect as it could be, but for the time being I think it
can work very well if w
[Quoting Raphael Manfredi, on March 26 2001, 10:31, in "No reply in a month "]
> This is over a month old, and has still not been added to the database.
> I'd appreciate a reply if the name space was rejected for some reason.
>
> Otherwise, I expect a first CPAN upload of CGI::Test in 2 weeks.
T
> PS I just used cpan-upload script, wouldn't it be nice to have it
> save PAUSE password once for good, without being worried of
> accidentally loosing it?
I don't quite understand. You can put user and password data for
cpan_upload in $HOME/.pause, and protect this file against other
"Perl Authors Upload Server" writes:
> Java has two system out functions. System.out.print and
> System.out.println. For a long time now I have been wondering why
> Perl didn't also have a println function just like in Java; so I
> wrote one--granted, it has more of a Lua feel to
> PAUSE ID's cost very little to provide. I see no reason to deny
> anyone's application as long as they seem human and mention Perl.
No problem, although I think it would be wise if the approval message
included a short explanation where PAUSE ID's should be used for.
-- Johan
"Perl Authors Upload Server" writes:
> This module solves the problem with reading large and huge text
> files in Perl. It is designed to read only block by block as needed.
> It does not load the whole file into memory, it only reads one
> block at a time ...
As far as I know, t
"Mewsoft Support" writes:
> Hello John,
>
> Try to download a big file like this:
> http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip
>
> watch it in Task manager, first, Perl memory grows and grows and then Perl
> will crash,
I downloaded the file, unzipped it. allCountries.txt is just
"Mewsoft Support" writes:
> try a virtual hosting for example where only few megs of RAM will be
> allowed for your process.
I'm unable to try this so I must take your word for it.
Nevertheless it is my firm understanding that when you use Perl to read
a text file sequentially, it will by defau
"Mewsoft Support" writes:
> Where is that module File::ReadBuffer?
brian suggested to use this name instead of File::Large.
-- Johan
"Perl Authors Upload Server" writes:
> Welcome Nic Sandfield,
>
> PAUSE, the Perl Authors Upload Server, has a userid for you:
>
> NONZERO
Deze man heeft ook NICZERO ...
-- Johan
"Perl Authors Upload Server" writes:
> The next version of the Module List will list the following module:
>
> modid: HTML::Template::Parser
> DSLIP: bdpOp
> description: Praser for HTML::Template syntax template fi
ERROR parsing "Praser"
"Perl Authors Upload Server" writes:
>modid: [Test::Copyright]
> description: [Test taht a module is has good license info]
How about Test::SpellCheck first?
-- Johan
Adam writes:
> I need to split files by size, but they have to be split only on newlines.
> So the size can be close, but it has to be split in the right spot.
>
> I propose using the name File::Split::More, File::Split::Qualifier, or
> File::Split::ApproxSize.
split -C ?
[Quoting Von Roesgen, Claude, on March 28 2001, 16:36, in "Perl Module that wra"]
> My name is: Claude von Roesgen
> My email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> my homepage is: http://www.vonroesgen.com/
> my preferred user-ID on CPAN: CVONROES
Done.
> I would like to contribute a Perl module that
[Quoting Jeff Mock, on March 28 2001, 22:56, in "Application for CPAN"]
> Name DSLI Description Info
> - -
> gpib MdcO Access GPIB test equipment from Perl JEFFMOCK
T
[Quoting Abraham Ingersoll, on March 31 2001, 09:39, in "Net::ParseWhois"]
>
> Please add Net::ParseWhois to the official module list, or let me know
> what remains to be done before that can happen.
Please submit a DSLI entry (see http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html).
-- Johan
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