On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 08:48 , Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > Hi Dan, > > today I revisited enc2xs and found three things missing:
Okay.... > - enc2xs doesn't write a MANIFEST file: this would be handy as the > innocent user doesn't know which files need to be included in a > distribution I reckon your suggestion is to 'let enc2xs generate any missing files that are enough to CPANize the encoding'. is there any other file missing? MANIFEST autogeneration is trivial but I still prefer 'make manifest'.... > - no -h or --help option I'm not sure enc2xs be used frequently enough to call for the need for -h but there is no reason not to add one. Maybe detailed info on -M and very, very brief description on -o and such that are not supposed to be invoked by human (even I don't do that except for debugging). > - no -v or --version option This should return the version of Encode.pm as well as enc2xs itself. > I'd volunteer to add all that if you'd be inclined to accept (and > proofread) it. Please let me know what you think. I am glad you help me out (well, your trust level is so high that you can do all the work and all I do is put your new version to my repository -- and claim the credit (c) ams). But I am not so happy if enc2xs becomes behemoth like h2xs. Man, I thought I had soothed all the feeping creaturism before the release of 5.8.0.... Dan the Patient of Feeping Creaturism
