[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soren A) wrote around 11 Nov 2002
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> "namespace" advice requested. I have written an extension module that I
> need to name and get uploaded to CPAN.
For reasons that I cannot make a good guess at, it appears that no-one
has read thi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Boyce) wrote around 14 Nov 2002
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> So my answer is going only to the list.
No problem. I got it.
> At 04:29 AM 11/14/2002 +, Soren A wrote:
>>I don't think that what my proposed module does is a good fit with the
>>domain o
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:34:10 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>> I'm not sure what it is we're trying to solve here--has there been
>> a specific complaint we're trying to address? "If nothing is
>> broken, don't fix it" etc.
>
>Yes,
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> >Yes, yours. :)
> >http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-04/msg02168.html
> >http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-04/msg02144.html
>
> That's all over and done with, isn't it? I meant
The TO_UNIX feature runs on OS/2 but not on Windows? How odd.
Myself I find that CVS converts linefeeds, so that checking out the
code on a Windows system to build a distribution will make one with
\r\n line endings.
If the TO_DIST stuff doesn't currently run on Windows - the most
obvious platfo
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:19:38PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> > I'm not sure what it is we're trying to solve here--has there been
> > a specific complaint we're trying to address? "If nothing is
> > broken, don't fix it" etc.
>
> Yes, yours.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:53:43 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>Poking around in the 'dist' MakeMaker target, I figured out what the TO_UNIX
>macro does. Its a command to convert all the files in the module to Unix
>linefeeds just before its packed up into an archive (your original sources
>are left a