On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:24, Dave Rolsky wrote;
> I like what you're proposing, but I think the best way to do this
> is to simply start it, and then try to get the CPAN folks to buy
> into it once it's established as being useful.
I couldn't agree more, but I didn't really want to start with
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Sam Vilain wrote:
> who are experts in the field, will truly perform this task - and that
> to gain maximum support, that it should be included in the content
> mirrored along with the rest of cpan.org.
I like what you're proposing, but I think the best way to do this is to
s
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:45, David Manura wrote:
> [ the interface will change! ]
I hope you are planning on adding a VERSION subroutine that will not
accept requests for old, incompatible versions, while accepting requests
for all later versions (which presumably will be bug-fixes and
backwards-
* Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-15 22:44]:
> ...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip?
* Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-15 22:53]:
> But it doesn't compress. Compress:Gunzip?
> Uncompress::Gzip (Neither really meant as serious suggestions)
>
> Problem is that it's a
* Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-12 11:29]:
> "Conveniently, I've written exactly the thing that provides the
> features I need, in a way that's most convenient for my
> purpose. Everything else pales by comparison, otherwise I
> would not have written it. Here, let me show you."
Are
At 16:09 + 2/15/04, Simon Cozens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elizabeth Mattijsen) writes:
I've released about 30 modules in the past 1.5 years. I _never_
> bothered to try to register. I guess that means something.
Likewise. (although slightly more than 30 ;)
I just don't see the point of the
David Manura wrote:
As the current maintainer of Text::Balanced,
And *thank-you* for taking on that role, David! :-)
(2) extract_multiple will recognize only the empty list and (undef, ...)
return values from extractor functions as match failures. This is what
the POD currently states, but ('
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elizabeth Mattijsen) writes:
> I've released about 30 modules in the past 1.5 years. I _never_
> bothered to try to register. I guess that means something.
Likewise. (although slightly more than 30 ;)
I just don't see the point of the modules list, especially now we have
sea
David Manura writes:
> Smylers wrote:
>
> > But yes, as the CGI::Lite maintainer I do have an interest in a
> > review of CGI-related modules: I'd like it to put people off using
> > CGI::Lite so that I can stop trying to maintain it and everybody
> > can use something saner instead ...
>
>
Rocco Caputo writes:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:19:14PM +, Smylers wrote:
>
> > Similarly an author doesn't need to understand all of the problems,
> > just so long as they state exactly what they are looking at,
> > preferably stated upfront. So the article starts by saying "I'm
> > looki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Vromans) writes:
> Good idea, but don't we need to solve the current module registry
> problems as well? Many module authors issue submission requests and
> never get a reply.
Tim also wrote:
> But [EMAIL PROTECTED] has it's own set of problems (that I hope will be
> addre
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:43:27AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:19, Nicholas Clark wrote;
>
> > Autrijus suggested Compress::Zlib::PurePerl, which I think is
> > reasonable.
>
> ...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip?
But it doesn't compress. Compress:Gunzip?
U
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:19, Nicholas Clark wrote;
> Autrijus suggested Compress::Zlib::PurePerl, which I think is
> reasonable.
...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip?
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:32, Tim Bunce wrote;
> I'd like to see a summary of what those "needs of the community"
> are. (Maybe I missed it as I've not been following as closely as
> I'd have liked. In which case a link to an archived summary would
> be great.)
> It's very important to be
Ton Hospel has written a pure perl implementation of gunzip. (no mean feat)
Autrijus sent to the PAR list and asked if anyone could refactor it to
emulate Compress::Zlib's interface sufficiently to allow Archive::Zip
(and therefore PAR) to work with it (to unpack zip files).
It seems that the only
At 13:57 +0100 2/15/04, Johan Vromans wrote:
Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For those modules that are not on the Module List, (i.e., not in
http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz) and which have a
'significant' existing user base, develop a "Fast Track" process to
> get them ad
Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For those modules that are not on the Module List, (i.e., not in
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz) and which have a
> 'significant' existing user base, develop a "Fast Track" process to
> get them added to the Module List.
Good idea, but don'
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:56:39PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
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> excellent resource for those seeking to do anything non-core with
> Perl. However, i
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