Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AT" == Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:20:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: >> well, we do have Acme:: for all the joke modules. no one should be >> fooled by a module from that namespace. all new joke modules should go >> there but some want thei

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:22:07PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:20:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > well, we do have Acme:: for all the joke modules. no one should be > > fooled by a module from that namespace. all new joke modules should go > > there but some want their

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:11:16PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "AT" == Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AT> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:20:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> well, we do have Acme:: for all the joke modules. no one should be > >> fooled by a module from that

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:20:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > well, we do have Acme:: for all the joke modules. no one should be > fooled by a module from that namespace. all new joke modules should go > there but some want their joke to be a little more realistic and sucker > people. a joke modul

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DRA" == Daniel R Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DRA> ...It would seem to me that our friends at CPAN wasn't happy with DRA> the joke-modules in regular-namespace, either, as XML::Simpler DRA> seems to have disappeared from the author's directory completely DRA> (?) and Inline::PE

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread Daniel R. Allen
Steve and crew, ...It would seem to me that our friends at CPAN wasn't happy with the joke-modules in regular-namespace, either, as XML::Simpler seems to have disappeared from the author's directory completely (?) and Inline::PERL is now ACME::Inline::PERL (which seems a better place to me). I do

Re: [Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-26 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.01.24 16:47 -0800 ) steve: > Hey, am I the only one to be burned by a CPAN module that turned out > to be a joke? yes -- \js "don't panic" ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

[Boston.pm] joke CPAN modules

2004-01-24 Thread steve
Hey, am I the only one to be burned by a CPAN module that turned out to be a joke?   The first time I found one, I realized what it was ... Inline::PERL which claims to "Bring the power of PERL programming to your Perl programs." Obviously this was intended as funny.   But, while working on an XML