Re: Module heirarchy naming for SPI/I²C device drivers

On 22/10/15 12:39, Matthew Astley wrote: Cool! The Bus::I2C:: namespace seems safe. Short, unambiguous, unlikely to have a legitimate claim from software. I would personally keep Device, most of the hardware-related stuff on CPAN (not much, but still) is already in that namespace. Bus, by it

Re: Exclude tests from regular tests

On 20/06/15 12:52, K. Wittrock wrote: set PERL5LIB=lib prove xt set PERL5LIB= you can get rid of the silly PERL5LIB stuff with: prove --lib xt also, be aware that testing the not-yet-built lib folder isn't going to work for XS modules, or any module which does something more than just copyi

Re: Correct placement for modules for making Apple Configuration Profiles

On 07/09/14 09:43, Alfred Karl Kornel wrote: Any advice would be appreciated! For me, it's a tossup between XML::AppleConfigProfile and XML::Apple::ConfigProfile, but I may have missed something obvious. What about just: File::PList ? cheers, Aldo

Re: Personal Dashboard on MetaCPAN

On 05/12/2014 06:06 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: If you are a CPAN author logged in to MetaCPAN you can ehm... sorry, I'm probably missing something very obvious here, but how do you login to MetaCPAN as a CPAN author? all I can see is Facebook/Github/Twitter/Google, there is no CPAN (or PAUSE) o

Re: Unclear as to problem: Tried to register 'Types', but says can't due to unrelated module.

On 11/13/2013 04:43 PM, Linda W wrote: The indexing system is broken, IMO... no, version 0.11 of Net::ICal is broken. http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/EBUSBOOM/Net-ICal-0.11/lib/Net/ICal/Types.pm it says "package Types" instead of "package Net::ICal::Types". again, an accident. no one reserved

Re: (FYI)...Module naming collision Or mirage?

On 11/13/2013 10:04 AM, Linda W wrote: Um... but Sisyphus says it's not a real module -- it is never installed. How is this different than domain sitting? you already got a reply to this from Leon: > PAUSE automatically indexes everything it can find, unless you tell it otherwise indexed m

Re: (FYI)...Module naming collision Or mirage?

On 11/13/2013 06:43 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: ??? Who is Ingy and how does he come into the picture? Ingy is the original author of the first version of Inline: http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/ Sisyphus is the current maintainer. I.e. if I just cleared the namespace ... someone else

Re: Conditional installation of XS (or graceful fallback)

On 09/19/2013 08:20 AM, David Oswald wrote: That's too late, isn't it? If the user types, "cpan install List::BinarySearch", Makefile.PL doesn't get executed until after the target module is pulled in. Prereqs are specified in the distribution's META.* files. By the time Makefile.PL is run, th

Re: Name for pragma type module?

On 07/23/2013 04:37 PM, Jim Schueler wrote: One option is to release this module as a pragma. Note the difference in invocation: ## Function::ReturnScalar name used in blog example use Function::ReturnScalar ; ## pragma use base Function::ReturnScalar ;## standard a smal

Re: html pod doesn't honor S

On Thu, March 7, 2013 10:24 pm, Linda W wrote: > Is this a limitation or a unfixed bug? > > I noticed the html version on cpan of my module looked poopy... it was > all broken funny and things that lined up on a terminal didn't (C culpa>). > > But I also noticed non-breaking spaces ignored...? I t

Re: in running test on a module -- where is the module ?

On Fri, March 1, 2013 11:20 am, Linda W wrote: > This is the one I was using... > But I was in the 't' dir, and my test tried to access > the module using ../lib/module.pm you should run "make test" from the distribution folder, not from t (wouldn't work anyway, since the Makefile is not inside t)

Re: in running test on a module -- where is the module ?

On Fri, March 1, 2013 9:58 am, Linda W wrote: > I developed a few tests for a module I was trying to get on to CPAN. > > They worked when I ran them in the 't' directory. > > But under the test harness, they failed... it couldn't find > the module files. if by "test harness" you mean prove, then y

Re: Help me choose a name for a Beta Code conversion module

On Wed, December 5, 2012 6:17 pm, Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos wrote: > I wasn't able to find any such module at the CPAN. The PAUSE naming > guidelines seem to suggest that something like Lingua::BetaCode would be a > good choice, but I'll wait for your advice. > > Any ideas? I think Text::B

Re: XML XParent schema module name

On 07/04/2012 03:45 PM, Marco Masetti wrote: 1) do you find such a module could be usefull ? yes, I think it would definitely be useful. 2) what could be the module namespace, XML::XParent or XParent::Schema ? I would prefer the first option, as most of the stuff related with XML already find

Re: XML-LibXML's 2.* Versioning Scheme: Please Advise.

On 05/31/2012 10:31 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: 4. "2.x.y" - I use this for my open source C projects and some of my CPAN modules and perl 5 and Parrot use it as well. Is it well supported with the CPAN toolchain? Also note that, at least concerning Perl, it looks like 4, but is really 2 :-) That

Re: RFC: Arduino::Pseudo

On 05/04/2012 04:10 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Shouldn't it be under an Emulation namespace? ("Emu::" etc.) Or have I misunderstood the purpose of this module? there's no such thing as an Emulation namespace currently :-) furthermore, I'm afraid people will incorrectly think the module emulates t

RFC: Arduino::Pseudo

hello CPAN fellows, I'm toying with Arduino lately, and I wrote myself a sort of Arduino pseudocode simulator. in Perl :-) basically, it's just a Wx::App which tries to mimic the working of an Arduino, with visible widgets for physical components like pushbuttons, leds and potentiometers.

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

On 29.07.2011 17:39, David Cantrell wrote: https://encrypted.google.com/ ah, ok. but that's explicitly requesting for https, which is something different from eg. github, which really redirect http requests to https. I don't question that there's a trend here, and I don't particularly advoc

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

On 29.07.2011 13:58, sawyer x wrote: I like to work in HTTPS (and we should, really, in a secure world). Many websites already moved to it by default such as github.com , all google sites, workflowy.com , foursquare and more. just out of curiosity, where

Re: RFC: Automated Assistance with Module Naming and Projection

On 25.08.2010 03:02, Xiong Changnian wrote: You may find the register in which I write overly formal. I don't wish to insult anyone who may be more comfortable writing in another style. I struggle to write clearly and accurately. I'm aware that my words here are immutable and I cannot suffer poor

Re: Names and ideas for new modules

cr...@animalhead.com wrote: Someone got excited when I mentioned and posted some WPAD code here a week or two ago, so it may be worthwhile to post it as a module. The second name should probably be WPAD, but what category does it belong in? HTTP::WPAD? IP::WPAD? Proxy::WPAD? Module::WPAD?

Re: Module::Build question

cr...@animalhead.com wrote: Q: How can a test program tell if it's running in verbose mode? you don't. use note($message) from Test::More to output things that should be seen only in verbose mode. cheers, Aldo

Re: flame bait: execution speed Perl vs. C (Date::Calc::PP vs. Date::Calc::XS)

Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: This is flame bait? Why is this flame bait? well, if nothing else works, this could easily be turned into a Date::Calc vs. DateTime flame bait :-) cheers, Aldo

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report LETO/Net-Topsy-0.02.tar.gz

Fayland Lam wrote: Why not just: package Net::Topsy; use MooseX::Declare; class Net::Topsy { }; one more 'package Net::Topsy;' is fine. /me thinks this should be documented in big, flaming red, blinking letters in the MooseX::Declare POD. cheers, Aldo

Re: Speaking of namespace advice...

Curtis Jewell wrote: I've got a module that... well, the idea is that it's the Module::CoreList for Strawberry. What should I call it? Module::List::Strawberry and Strawberry::ModuleList both come to mind. what's wrong with just Module::CoreList::Strawberry? cheers, Aldo

Re: ARGH! (was FW: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references)

Ovid wrote: Readonly constants are just easier to use and have fewer "gotchas". they have indeed, when you need to access the constants from outside of the module they are declared in (which is a pretty common case). cfr. Foo::Bar::CONSTANT_FIELD vs. $Foo::Bar::CONSTANT_FEILD. the latter fo

Re: autoabbrev algorithm from Getopt::Long

Darren Chamberlain wrote: What's wrong with Text::Abbrev? It's been part of the core for a long time. if you ask what's wrong, that's the POD. the name is set to 'abbrev', it sort of even breaks search.cpan.org. I guess many don't know about the module for this reason :-) cheers, Aldo

Re: PAUSE not syncing with RT?

Andy Armstrong wrote: There's been major borkage in Perl hosting world: http://log.perl.org/ I imagine it may be an artifact of that. yup, it makes sense. will mail the webmaster about this, thanks. cheers, Aldo

PAUSE not syncing with RT?

hello, I have a little (very little) problem with the RT at rt.perl.org, used to mantain requests about my CPAN modules. some days ago I got a bug report[1], promptly (!) fixed it and released the update on CPAN (using PAUSE). I have already closed the ticket on rt.perl.org. then, to end the

Re: What to do about abandoned / unmaintained CPAN code?

Orton, Yves wrote: Try a posting on perlmonks. He used to frequent that site ona regular basis. unfortunately, this is not the case anymore :-) but fortunately, BooK just warned me about this thread, so I quickly joined the mailing list. let me say that I feel very, very sorry about the c