On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:26:21PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> > The interface choices... where would you put AnyLoader? You use it
> > and it just works. Perhaps 'm' for 'magical'? :) I think this has
> > befuddled other modules as well. Lingua::Romana::Perligata and Bleach
> > are listed as having an OO interface, which doesn't seem right, but
> > perhaps he put in O for 'other'? Perhaps 'l' for things which modify
> > the language itself?
>
> I hope the authors notice wrong DSLIP statements and correct them. The
> widget is just about 6 months old. What I need to do next is write
> them authors about it.
Well, the problem is there's no "Interface Style" entry that really
matches things like AnyLoader, Lingua::Romana::Perligata, Bleach, DNA,
etc... 'l' for 'modifies the language' would be a nice addition to
cover such things.
> > The other is license issues. Email::Find uses the Perl license with
> > a caveat...
>
> > LICENSE
> > This module may not be used for the purposes of sending
> > unsolicited email (ie. spamming) in any way, shape or form
> > or for the purposes of generating lists for commercial
> > sale without explicit permission from the author.
>
> > For everyone else this module is free software; you may
> > redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
> > Perl itself.
>
> So it will be
>
> d - Not approved by www.opensource.org, but distribution allowed
> without restrictions
d it is.
> > Oh, that's a whole 'nuther discussion! It relied on Email::Valid
> > (which, notably, isn't in the module list) so I went by that. If I
>
> Very unfortunate. Email::Valid was never posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shall we poke the author?
> > was to do it over again, I would have called it Mail::Find, yes. I
> > could probably be convinced to change the name (keeping around the old
> > for compatibility).
>
> I'm in favor of a rename.
Ok, I'll do it next release.
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