Re: Adjusting CPAN::Mirrors to make it more useful

2011-04-28 Thread brian d foy
that we have now, which is what you are talking about, seems to work better and is what CPAN::Mirror already uses, although not in the JSON form yet. -- brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com http://www.pair.com/~comdog/

Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

2010-09-26 Thread brian d foy
Hi everyone, Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) is working on the www.cpan.org website in the same way he skinned many of the perl.org websites. He's a bit shy so he asked that I introduce him since I dumped the task on him. :) Right now the goal is merely to apply the new skin, get the existing site into

The format is not the data

2010-01-06 Thread brian d foy
We don't have to put the data in any particular format. There's no need to choose any format. We can have them all. With whatever I do, I want to support everything. If the CPAN client says it can handle JSON, it can download JSON. If it wants YAML, it can download YAML. If it needs just text,

Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

2010-01-05 Thread brian d foy
In article 5d4beb41001041958q3b5d9219gac4360cfc8c2d...@mail.gmail.com, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM, brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com wrote: Yikes. How about we move away from text files and towards structured data like JSON. When JSON is core

Re: A matching distroprefs appears to corrupt future calls to install()

2009-12-03 Thread brian d foy
I've found the problem, although I don't have a solution yet. In short, a disabled dist tells Distrostatus NO but it's goodbye message is NA. I don't know if that's a bug, though. If I change that NO to NA all the tests still pass, but I don't know enough about the long range intent to know if

Re: A matching distroprefs appears to corrupt future calls to install()

2009-12-01 Thread brian d foy
Here are the interesting bits from two runs of the code I just posted. The top results doesn't try to install Expect because I remove it from the code. Everything works. After Delayed until after prerequisites it continues into rematin() and eventually to expand_by_any(), which expands

Integrating cpan(1) into CPAN.pm for perl 5.12 and beyond

2009-11-20 Thread brian d foy
think we need to know which version to pull from me immeidately, but I will spend some time looking at the versions to see where we should cut off development. -- brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com

Re: CPAN.pm locking hangs in an NFS-mounted directory

2009-02-17 Thread brian d foy
In article 5d4beb40902171431h28bf2123x55ea936adbb69...@mail.gmail.com, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com wrote: Utlimately, I wouldn't mind a feature to disable locking, like