Re: New Module

2009-05-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Chris Dolan [2009-05-03 16:25]: > If you blog because you are inspired to say something important > to the community, then I want to read it. If you blog every > time you release a module, or just because mst told you to, > then you are just lowering the signal-to-noise ratio. > > High S/N means

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-03 Thread David Golden
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > For my module Number::Format I am getting a strange result from cpan > testers that I can't replicate. See this error report... > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/03/msg3560533.html > > # Failed test 'pi with precision=6'

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-03 Thread Bill Ward
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 3 May 2009, at 20:07, Bill Ward wrote: > >> For my module Number::Format I am getting a strange result from cpan >> testers that I can't replicate. See this error report... >> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/03/msg

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 May 2009, at 20:07, Bill Ward wrote: For my module Number::Format I am getting a strange result from cpan testers that I can't replicate. See this error report... http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/03/msg3560533.html # Failed test 'pi with precision=6' # at t/round

Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-03 Thread Bill Ward
For my module Number::Format I am getting a strange result from cpan testers that I can't replicate. See this error report... http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/03/msg3560533.html # Failed test 'pi with precision=6' # at t/round.t line 18. # got: 3.141593 # exp

Re: New Module

2009-05-03 Thread Chris Dolan
On May 3, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Jonathan Rockway [2009-05-03 08:00]: This is why Perl people should blog more. Agreed, that helps up to a point. But you can’t natter on about *every* module at the same level of noise. I vehemently agree. At the risk of derailing t

Re: New Module

2009-05-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway [2009-05-03 08:00]: > * On Sat, May 02 2009, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > Yeah, if there are thousands of other programmers using a > > module, then its name can be pretty much anything. > > > > If more or less the only marketing it has is search.cpan.org > > results page, the