Re: bag-o-code release?

2003-11-20 Thread Corwin Brust
Eric Wilhelm wrote: The following was supposedly scribed by Corwin Brust on Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:42 am: Eric Wilhelm wrote: It's been over a month now since I've felt that the CAD::Drawing module is ready for release but I still cannot get the time to figure out how to setup a m

RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Chris Reinhardt
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Orton, Yves wrote: > Thats great. Did it get applied? Even if it did it still wont help those > that cannot upgrade their CPAN or install modules will it? If you can't install a new version of CPAN.pm, how can you install other modules? You're either maintaining your own per

RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Orton, Yves wrote: > > > Well, I find it odd that it works the way it does. CPAN expects a > > Makefile.PL. If an author doesnt bother to have makefile.pl created (my > > understanding is that this is not default, I await

RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Orton, Yves wrote: > Well, I find it odd that it works the way it does. CPAN expects a > Makefile.PL. If an author doesnt bother to have makefile.pl created (my > understanding is that this is not default, I await correction) then the > module is not auto installable by a larg

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:34:38PM -0500, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: > > But as we start to put this together we run across Module::Build. In > the past I have always used ExtUtils::MakaMaker. Is there a preference > (if one were starting from scratch), to using one over the other? I maintain Dat

RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build > > I dont know the logic behind using Build.pl instead of > makefile.pl, but the > > fact that it doesnt create the later by defualt (or so I > have been told) is > > in my eyes a serious mistake that will greatly reduce its > overall uptake

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Randy W. Sims
Orton, Yves wrote: But as we start to put this together we run across Module::Build. In the past I have always used ExtUtils::MakaMaker. Is there a preference (if one were starting from scratch), to using one over the other? Personally my feeling is that Module::Build isn't mature enough fo

RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-20 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build > > But as we start to put this together we run across > Module::Build.  In > > the past I have always used ExtUtils::MakaMaker.  Is there > a preference > > (if one were starting from scratch), to using one over the other? Personally my fee

RE: Looking for help with Net::SSH::Perl & Net::SFTP

2003-11-20 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Looking for help with Net::SSH::Perl & Net::SFTP > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Orton) writes: > > I more meant that being the man with the Net:: > > Oh, you still believe that namespace ownership actually > exists in practice? > How quaint. > > Maybe I shouldn't have uploaded my lat

Re: Looking for help with Net::SSH::Perl & Net::SFTP

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Orton) writes: > I more meant that being the man with the Net:: Oh, you still believe that namespace ownership actually exists in practice? How quaint. Maybe I shouldn't have uploaded my latest module into Tie::, because that's owned by... -- Remember, any design flaw y

Re: bag-o-code release?

2003-11-20 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 19:47 -0500 11/19/03, James E Keenan wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:57:08 -0600, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Should I just put everything in a tarball and upload it to CPAN with the hope that someone else could write a makefile and test suite? What happens when the auto-tester finds no tests? At the

Re: bag-o-code release?

2003-11-20 Thread Eric Wilhelm
> The following was supposedly scribed by > Corwin Brust > on Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:42 am: >Eric Wilhelm wrote: >>It's been over a month now since I've felt that the CAD::Drawing module is >>ready for release but I still cannot get the time to figure out how to >> setup a makefile and get