Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
David Landgren wrote: I don't know how to distinguish between someone who likes to jumps through hoops and someone who cares about their modules. I do, but it involves reading what they've written instead of (for example) just rgrepping for the current POD testing flavour of the month. >

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:19:07 +0100, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Dolan wrote: > > In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package > > manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license > > information at all. It's very frustrating.

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 2, 2005, at 12:13 PM, David Landgren wrote: No. I'm complaining that there's no need for two different Kwalitee points for this, that's all. I think one is sufficient (and a very worthy one I should add, in case I wasn't being clear, which I probably wasn't). Ahh, that was unclear f

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Randy W. Sims
David Landgren wrote: I am not going to use Module::Build. I've tried it but I prefer EU::MM, at least for the time being. I'm all for the concept, but I wanted to do something really basic with it for a new module a while ago. I forget the details, but after futzing around for a while I just f

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread David Landgren
Chris Dolan wrote: On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:19 AM, David Landgren wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:19 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > I know that the current alpha of ExtUtils::MakeMaker supports this, but > until it is released as stable *and* module authors have the time to > upgrade EU::MM *and* release a new version of their module(s), those > authors will be pena

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:19 AM, David Landgren wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one o

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread David Landgren
Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one of them has been fixed (thanks Ken Williams). To encoura

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-10-31 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:34:09AM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: > To encourage authors to correct this oversight, I propose a new pair > of Kwalitee tests. Both would be nice, but if either of them were > implemented, I'd be thrilled. I'd prefer that someone else implement > the test (l