Re: Looking for module dependency information

2004-07-11 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:46:01AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Most modules now have a META.yml file which contains (amongst other things) > module dependency information. Simplest thing to do would be to make a > local miniCPAN mirror [1] and walk through the archive files [2] in > modules

Re: Looking for module dependency information

2004-07-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Jul 10, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: The reason is that I would like to integreate this with testing information from the CPAN Testers. So if I find that there are no testing results for platform 'x' for a specific module, I can check to see if one of the dependent modules fai

Re: Looking for module dependency information

2004-07-11 Thread Robert Rothenberg
On 7/11/2004 12:46 AM Michael G Schwern wrote: Most modules now have a META.yml file which contains (amongst other things) module dependency information. Simplest thing to do would be to make a local miniCPAN mirror [1] and walk through the archive files [2] in modules/02packages.details.txt look

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread stevan little
On Jul 9, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Andy Lester wrote: Don't be mesmerized by 100% coverage. Agreed 100% here. However, I stand by my original statement that you CAN have 100% coverage on subroutines and pod. Any disagreement on that one? I agree with having 100% on subroutines, and I would add that 100

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:26:44PM -0400, stevan little wrote: > As for POD, in most cases, I agree with you, but to say you should have > 100% POD coverage brings up several other questions, such as; Should I > document private methods? IMPO yes, but Pod::Coverage (and thus Devel::Cover) will

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread Pete Krawczyk
Subject: Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd) From: stevan little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:26:44 -0400 }As for POD, in most cases, I agree with you, but to say you should have }100% POD coverage brings up several other questions, such as; Should I }docume

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread stevan little
Micheal, On Jul 11, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:26:44PM -0400, stevan little wrote: As for POD, in most cases, I agree with you, but to say you should have 100% POD coverage brings up several other questions, such as; Should I document private methods? IMP

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread Andy Lester
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:26:44PM -0400, stevan little ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As for POD, in most cases, I agree with you, but to say you should have > 100% POD coverage brings up several other questions, such as; Should I > document private methods? What about modules which are meant to b

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread Andy Lester
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:07:22PM -0400, stevan little ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think that reg-ex is too loose (and incorrect, but I know you really > meant /^[A-Z]+$/). I would rather see it check for all the documented > magic methods rather than a catch all for UPPERCASE names. Even tho

Re: native_pbc fixes

2004-07-11 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oh, bother. I think I somehow goofed up the patch part, so here it is again regenerated. (The pbc files were okay in my original sending.) nat.pat.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: native_pbc fixes

2004-07-11 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Oh, bother. I think I somehow goofed up the patch part, so here it is > again regenerated. (The pbc files were okay in my original sending.) This is getting embarrassing. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologis

Re: native_pbc fixes

2004-07-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, to generate the number_2.pbc I had to compile a new uselongdouble > Perl in Linux You don't need that Perl anymore - or shouldn't: $perl Configure.pl --floatval="long double" should do it. > ... and in there I had to #if 0 the below in src

[perl #30670] [PATCH] t/pmc/bigint.t for 64-bit

2004-07-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #30670] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30670 > In 64-bit environments 20 is not *that* big. Patch attached. -- Jarkk

[perl #30671] tru64 problems with nci.t and object-meths.t

2004-07-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #30671] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30671 > I ran into various failures with nci.t and object-meths.t I lack the time and th

Next rev of Python::Bytecode

2004-07-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
Still a bit lacking, 'specially in the documentation department, but I've got a version that sucks much less than it did, and is possibly even correct. (Go figure. Surprised me, too... :) Anyway, if you want to fiddle, http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/Python-Bytecode-2.2.tar.gz and have at it. If an obje

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible? (fwd)

2004-07-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Jul 11, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: I document private code like this: =begin private put your normal POD here =end private perldoc won't show the POD but someone reading through the code (and thus needing to know about private functions) will see it. And POD is very readable i

Re: Phalanx: What if full coverage isn't possible?

2004-07-11 Thread James Mastros
Pete Krawczyk wrote: Consider the following code: $impclass ||= implementor($scheme) || do { require URI::_foreign; $impclass = 'URI::_foreign'; }; That's in URI.pm, lines 54-58. Devel::Cover treats that as a conditional. So short of deleting URI::_forei

Re: question regarding rules and bytes vs characters

2004-07-11 Thread Ph. Marek
> : Hello everybody, > : > : I'm about to learn myself perl6 (after using perl5 for some time). > > I'm also trying to learn perl6 after using perl5 for some time. :-) I wouldn't even try to compare you and me :-) > Pretty close. The way it's set up currently, $len is a reference > to a var

RE: The .bytes/.codepoints/.graphemes methods

2004-07-11 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Jonadab the Unsightly One [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this is something that we'll want as a "mode", a la > > case-insensitivity. Think of it as "mark insensitivity." > > Makes sense to me, but... > > >