RE: Process for Removing a Module from CPAN

2009-05-25 Thread Burak Gürsoy
> -Original Message- > From: Steffen Schwigon [mailto:s...@renormalist.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:25 AM > To: Jonathan Yu > Cc: module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: Process for Removing a Module from CPAN > > The best and easiest thing is to contact the author of the original >

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-25 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Jonathan Yu # on Monday 25 May 2009: >I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it > over. Hi Jonathan, That's a good question in general, but for Qt4, I'm inclined to say that a better approach would be to use the 'Qt4::' namespace. >I'm working with someone else o

Re: Process for Removing a Module from CPAN

2009-05-25 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Jonathan Yu writes: > Hi: > > I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it > over. The best and easiest thing is to contact the author of the original namespace to give you co-maintainer rights. Maybe this way you even get him involved and relight his fire. He then needs to g

Process for Removing a Module from CPAN

2009-05-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it over. I'm working with someone else on perlqt4 bindings for my Google Summer of Code project, and the currently available version of Qt is from 1997 and of little use to anybody. (See: code.google.com/p/perlqt4) We'd like to b

Re: RFC: aliased::factory

2009-05-25 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Eric Wilhelm # on Sunday 24 May 2009: >I >want something which aliases an entire class hierarchy and loads >modules from it on demand. > >  use aliased::factory YAPI => 'Yahoo::Marketing'; > >  # this does: require Yahoo::Marketing::KeywordResearchService >  # and calls Yahoo::Marketing::Ke