Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Adam Kennedy
demerphq wrote: On 5/26/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message > From: Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Andy Lester wrote: > > Here's an example of why I'm not real excited about CPANTS: > > > > http://community.livejournal.com/perl/120747.html > > Ironically, posted

Introductions; P6 wiki

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Everyone, I'm very glad to have finally subscribed to the P6 users list after a couple of weeks of travel and intermittent network access, and so I apologise that this message may not be properly threaded. This is both a note of introduction and a few words on the recent discussion about th

Re: Introductions; P6 wiki

2006-05-27 Thread Ovid
On a related note, if anyone does want to build a P6 Wiki, you might consider building it on top of WWW::Kontent (http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Kontent/), a Perl6 CMS (Content Management System) that BrentDax wrote. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing li

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Robert Spier
> I was going to suggest keeping an archive of this one outside the > repository, but it's only 2 files, so I'll just keep a copy for > myself. (I'd like to revive it at some point in PGE/TGE and the old > implementation could be useful.) Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets har

Re: Fw: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-27 Thread Ovid
- Original Message > From: Brad Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "let" variables and "hypothetical" assignments within rules may be a > good starting point. Hi Brad, Caveat: I'm also tremendously underqualified to to make serious proposals here. Interesting idea. As I understand hypoth

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 5/27/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tell you what, I'm going to add the same code to all 100+ of my modules. And what if then Audrey and Ovid and Miyagawa and a hundred others did. For an application with 50 dependencies, that's 50 x 20 second pauses, or you get to sit there h

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Philippe "BooK" Bruhat
Le samedi 27 mai 2006 à 11:50, Michael G Schwern écrivait: > > If you wanted a way forward from this, a Module::Build::PhoneHome would be > nice with its own environment variable, independent of PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT, > to switch it off. Then people can just use it and it will do the right > thing,

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Matt Diephouse
Matt Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If no one has any objections, I'll remove these towards the end of the week or during the weekend. This is done as of r12807. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

$1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-27 Thread Conrad Schneiker
OK, I'm sold on a Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6-aka the (Perl 6)**2 Wiki. However, I want it now! So I'm offering to post a $1,000 prize (The AthenaLab "The 1st Extreme Leverage Prize" for Perl 6), to be awarded to the person that delivers the first (Perl 6)**2 Wiki that meets some moderate

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Allison Randal
Robert Spier wrote: Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder to find. So it'll be there later if you want it. Aye, I wasn't afraid it would disappear forever. But the old "What was that deleted path I'm looking for, and what revision should I sync back to?" makes it jus

RE: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-27 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Oops, I somehow overlooked including this intriguing item from an earlier post: > From: Ovid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On a related note, if anyone does want to build a P6 Wiki, you might > consider building it on top of WWW::Kontent > (http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Kontent/), a Perl6 CMS (C

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:08:29PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Robert Spier wrote: > > > >Nothing is actually _deleted_ from SVN... it just gets harder to > >find. So it'll be there later if you want it. > > Aye, I wasn't afraid it would disappear forever. But the old "What was > that deleted

Re: languages/ Cleanup

2006-05-27 Thread Allison Randal
Nicholas Clark wrote: Would this be resolved by entries in the ChangeLog? In Perl5 the version control history is added to a Changes file, which has each commit message along with the perforce revision number. It makes it very easy to search for these sorts of things. I assume that it's trivial

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-27 Thread Adam Kennedy
The questions that are being asked are for the user's benefit. That is NOT being a freeloader. Freeloading is taken something from the user and providing nothing in return. If an installer asks a question in order to install the module or run the testing, it is acting for the user's benefit.