Here is a thread to enjoy that brightened my day. ------------------------ Thank you very much for being a CPAN tester. As an author I very much appreciate seeing reports from as wide a variety of systems as possible. If anything, I appreciate the failures even more than the successes, since they give me the opportunity to improve my code.
Because you are not running some flavor of Unix, your reports are even more appreciated, since they let me address portability issues that might not arise under Unix. I hope you are able to continue the valuable service you provide to the Perl community. Tom Wyant ----- "M W487" <mw487.yahoo....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your thanks! I do enjoy being a help to the perl > community, in this little way. I smoke only WIN32 and cygwin, not so > much because I like those platforms, as because I use those platforms > often to get jobs done, and I love to use perl on them and on my > favorite platform, MacOSX. And the other platforms I use, such as > Mac > and Linux, are well tested. > > I have also learned a lot by testing my own code, and having others > test it. As I have learned a lot by programming perl. > > Tom, enjoy. I imagine you do not think of this report on > Astro-satpass as failure now, but as a chance to succeed in the > future. > > Not so many years ago, I stood outside and watched the ISS pass by, > coming into visibility and fading away in just so many seconds, and I > was amazed that anyone could provide the information for me to be > able > to walk outside at a specific place and time and look at a specific > part of the sky, and have my retina in position to catch light > reflected from the sun to the earth by the ISS. > > Wow. I am honored to be able to test your perl implementation that > might allow me to do the same thing- but hey, that is a journey for > another day. And if my testing fails you in any way, or I can offer > you more targeted testing on my platforms, please contact me. Should you decide to look into using this package, it means you also get to test my documentation. Please let me know what deficiencies you find -- I'm sure they are there. See also http://www.heavens-above.com/ if you do not want to have to sort through my documentation. > > May I copy our correspondence to the cpan-testers list? Yes. Thanks for asking, instead of just doing it. I hope it will be understood that I appreciate all the testers. But I'm human, and at the point of writing the note I really appreciated the Windows failure that came in just when I needed to know about it. > > Are you any relation to Harvey Mudd? No. Harry F. (Harcourt Fenton, actually) Mudd was a character who appeared in a couple of the original Star Trek episodes. He was likable, but a bit of a rogue. Normally it's the address I give when I think spam might be a possibility, but in this case I used it because it's what wy...@cpan.org is redirected to. Tom Wyant
