list object to the traffic.
I second the suggestion of the cpan-workers mailing list. You'll get a
good cross section of high-upriver maintainers who are probably the right
audience for what you're looking for.
--
David Golden x...@xdg.me Twitter/IRC: @xdg
needs to be
intentional.
But as I've said, I'm OK with some curation group fixing things up, marking
them unsupported/deprecated, and releasing them when authors are no longer
responsive.
--
David Golden x...@xdg.me Twitter/IRC: @xdg
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Neil Bowers n...@bowers.com wrote:
At the moment I have everything internally under a CPAN::Curation::
namespace, but if released separately I don't think that's appropriate.
I think that namespace is fine -- it's about your project, after all.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Olof Johansson o...@cpan.org wrote:
Well, that's not true. They are however one of very few that could
pass as ham, and will therefore pass through many spam filters. The
problem is that there is a list of 8630 non obfuscated e-mail
addresses in the
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote:
I find this module intriguing.
Thank you. It grew out of Acme::Module::Build::Tiny -- which was an
exercise to determine the *minimal* API that Build.Pl/Build needed to
allow the toolchain to install a module. (Thus
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the most complicated part is supporting whatever
builder+installer assumptions people have encoded into their
configurations -- maybe the client could read buildrc?
For that, I'd prefer to see a new way for CPAN
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:58 AM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com 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.
Those are all sites for which users
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Chris Marshall devel.chm...@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend putting a link in the POD to the PDF on
a web site. A 4X increase in the size of the distribution
is a pretty expensive way to publish. How about a short
synopsis in the POD with the link for more
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
As I could not find and answer I wonder if there is a well defined tool
for this in any of the packaging tools of Perl?
If not, what is the recommended way to say in Makefile.PL and/or Build.PL:
I don't require
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
Not to mention the general case of a CPAN author, where you can't assume
that they could be bothered to *obtain* a windows/mac OS, let alone
I think you're missing the point of my post, which was to offer a way
for people to
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
This all brings up a point about maintenance of Perl: it is one thing to not
release new features in 5.10.1 it is another to say since we have already 514
we won't consider bug fix releases for 5.10.1
Bundling stuff into core and
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:23 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
I went through a period of trying to make sure my code worked on
Windows, but I've given up. Not because it's hard to do - it generally
isn't - but the complete lack of a reasonable set of tools* on Windows,
which
5.008009 or whatever
is the earliest version they choose to support.
Likewise, if authors don't wish to be notified about reports, they can
customize notification on the preferences site:
https://prefs.cpantesters.org/
-- David Golden
Dear Herbert,
The module-authors list has nothing to do with search.cpan.org and
can't do anything to resolve this bug. As per the Feedback page,
you need to email cpansea...@perl.org.
c.f. http://search.cpan.org/feedback
Regards,
David
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:08 PM, herbert breunung
of major changes since 0.3624:
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- Generates META.json and MYMETA.json consistent with version 2 of the
CPAN Meta Spec. [David Golden]
Also in this release:
[BUG FIXES]
- Autogenerated documentation no longer includes private actions from
Module::Build's
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
My objective is getting more people to contribute to CPAN.
I don't necessarily want more modules. I'd prefer to get more people
involved in maintaining and improving the already existing module.
Reactions off the top of my
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:40 PM, David Christensen
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote:
Does 'configure_requires' support map to a Perl version?
It really maps to CPAN client versions, but Perl 5.10.1 ships with
CPAN and CPANPLUS that understand configure_requires. Older Perls
only need to upgrade
::Install,
Module::Build, or Dist::Zilla?
C.f.
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1173/what-tools-should-you-use-to-create-a-cpan-distribution/
Regards,
David Golden
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so using Module::Starter with Module::Install would be a good choice
because Module::Starter also creates some simple test files and they may be a
big part of the tests for very simple modules.
Do you know if
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:22 PM, John M. Gamble jgam...@ripco.com wrote:
Module::Build -- this is the 'pure perl' alternative. It is very easy
to customize compared to EU::MM but you can't rely on users having a
new enough Module::Build for any given feature unless you target Perl
5.10.1
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote:
I agree with the notion. But let me ask how much pressure changing
the compression format on CPAN would exert on the world to adapt
itself to it. Note too the quote is written from the perspective
of the world: no
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote:
I very much wish, however, that forks could get a return variable from the
fork process like threads can. This has always frustrated me.
To be honest, though, the fact that Linux forks are copy on write, takes
much of the
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
There are two kinds of fool. One says,
“This is old, and therefore good.” And one says,
“This is new, and therefore better.”
That put aside sticking with an older solution may be preferable due to the
better
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Instead of running rsync over the whole tree, it can change to run a top
level script that runs rsync over the parts that have to be copied, and then
run the symlink generation on the parts that can be recreated locally.
The
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we
talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various
events.
Their Perl person then told me he would not use Perl now for a
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Will the CPAN testing and downloading toolchian will handle modules
uploaded as .tar.bz2? (Allow to install them, unpack them, etc.) How
about tar.xz.
.bz2, yes. .xz, possibly, but not reliably. CPANPLUS uses
Hi, Xavier.
Have you tried to change the permissions from the PAUSE interface?
https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=share_perms
Look at section 3.
Regards,
David
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Xavier x.guim...@free.fr wrote:
Hi all,
I'm the maintainer of Lemonldap::NG::*
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Xiong Changnian xiong-c...@xuefang.com wrote:
I'm looking for a top-level namespace to put Hump under. I expect quite
a few submodules under the *::Hump:: but filling in that * is my goal
today. Absent violent objection, I plan to keep the 'Hump' part of the
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote:
Kartik and friends rewrote SDL_perl (a Perl module with SDL bindings)
using a different API. Then they ported my Perl-based game to using
that new Perl module, and to be CPAN-friendly. My game previous
versions were
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
thia dist_name = in M::B correct?
Yes.
Though maybe I should just implement a feature to add '-TRIAL', since
I'll need that anyway for CPAN Meta 2 support. (Dist::Zilla already
supports -TRIAL).
-- David
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
Does search.cpan.org understand -TRIAL now? Last I looked, it was
properly handled (i.e. not indexed) by PAUSE, but would leak through in
a few other places where it appears that an assumption was being made
without
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote:
Hum. This is for an application (a game), not a module, and I want it
to be clearly labelled as a beta release. So fine with There are no
standard conventions for alphanumerics, and you just make life hard
for the
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
How do we make this work?
I get a error doing this.
I think you need to be a lot more specific about this. I'm
beginning to suspect an XY problem.
Walk us through -- step by step -- what you're trying to
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM, jeffreykegler jeffreykeg...@mac.com wrote:
My thought is that the target of http://search.cpan.org/dist/Marpa/
is decided by the CPAN infrastructure. Any ideas as to how I'd go
about resolving this issue?
Email cpansea...@perl.org as per
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com wrote:
What? That's certainly not what happens for me. I just ensured I had
no ~/.cpan or ~/perl5, installed perlbrew, then installed new
perl-5.12.1. When I ran the newly created cpan client, my default `o
conf yaml_module' is
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote:
Just so you know, AFAIK:
1. ExtUtils::MakeMaker (EU::MM) is not dead and will shortly be under new
management. EU::MM is still being used for current and new modules.
2. Dist::Zilla is a packaging tool, not an installer.
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, even the most up-to-date CPAN.pm comes broken out of the box for
configure_requires because we say we prefer the YAML module to read
the configure_requires out of $whatever.yml and don't fail-over to use
the thing
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Matt Grimm matt.t.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
For example, I have a logger class wrapped around Log4perl that
supports screen, email, and syslog appenders, and each appender can be
individually toggled on or off. Is it better to force the dependencies
on the
I'm forwarding to the makema...@perl.org list, as this is not likely
to be of general interest to all module authors.
-- David
-- Forwarded message --
From: Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Subject: EU::MM LIBS winnowed too-early at .PL-time?
To:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Elliot Shank p...@galumph.com wrote:
Oof. Version numbers: All components after the first are restricted to the
range 0 to 999. That's going to be a problem for those of us who include
things like VCS revisions and CI build numbers in version numbers.
You can
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jeffrey jeffreykeg...@jeffreykegler.com wrote:
On Mar 31, 2:51 am, tim.bu...@pobox.com (Tim Bunce) wrote:
It would be handy if there was a way for authors to indicate that
new maintainers are sought. Perhaps via the META.yaml/(.json) file.
It would also be
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
It still has Curses-UI-0.71 from February 2002, and many other previous
versions. All of this takes space on the CPAN , takes time to mirror and
download, and clutters the various interfaces like search.cpan.org.
So I've
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
'BUILD_REQUIRES' = {'LWP' = 5.834,
BUILD_REQUIRES was only recently added to ExtUtils::MakeMaker in 6.56.
You need to add 'configure_requires' to META.yml specifying
ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.56.
That won't help users
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
diagnosis. So I'll put CONFIG_REQUIRES = {EU:MM = 6.56} into
Makefile.PL, and check that it propagates to META.yml.
Nit: It's CONFIGURE_REQUIRES, not CONFIG_REQUIRES. Also, you'll
probably want to put that in a section that only
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
Your comment put that in a section that only runs...
has me all confused.
I just put CONFIGURE_REQUIRES = {EU:MM = 6.56} into Makefile.PL.
It went into META.yml.
This is a small module and has no sections that I can think of.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org wrote:
So, I'm curious. Is there any kid of consensus on what to use for new
modules and why? Or is it still mostly a matter of opinion?
It's completely a matter of opinion. Schwern, who maintains
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, has said in
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
CPAN.pm is configured to automatically follow prerequsites but it
still stops and ask the question
... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want
to install it permanently (y/n) [yes]
Why is that
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Foo Bar f...@bar.com wrote:
http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm#Config_Variables
build_requires_install_policy
to install or not to install when a module is
only needed for building.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:28 AM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
as I've done in Makefile.PL below, and use what's available. It's
dynamically installing a module that I'm sending this to ask about.
You don't need to dynamically install a module. You just need to
dynamically create the PREREQ_PM.
Kartik, you can do this yourself on PAUSE. Login and click on the
link for Change Permissions. Or just go here:
https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=share_perms
-- David
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi David,
Can FROGGS get
I'm going to step *way* back in this discussion. I've been able to
replicate the issue, which is the first step to finding a thoughtful
resolution:
(1) All prerequisites to actually run the signature test file are
satisfied. (E.g. $ENV{TEST_SIGNATURE}, etc.
(2) MANIFEST.SKIP is in MANIFEST.SKIP
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:49 PM, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk wrote:
I think Ivan's point was more that the repo URL in question does not
actually appear anywhere within the VCS::Which distribution:
http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=IVANWILLSrelease=VCS-Which-v0.1.2string=github
Odd
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Klaus klau...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a patch that fixes those problems. 3 modules are to be patched:
ActivePerl::DocTools::Pod, ExtUtils::Command::MM and
Module::Build::Base.
Who do I need to contact to have all 3 modules patched at the same
time ?
For
I suggest taking this up on the cpan-workers list instead of module-authors.
David
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Ovid
publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've started writing Config::INI, an INI reader/writer in Perl 6. It's on
github at
; revised by David Golden]
- Updated PPM generation to PPM v4 (RT#49600) [Olivier Mengue]
- When module_name is not supplied, no packlist was being written; fixed
by guessing module_name from dist_version_from or the directory name
(just like ExtUtils::Manifest does without NAME) [David Golden
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans
leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote:
I have a standard MANIFEST.SKIP...
For anyone interested, the ExtUtils-Manifest module comes with a very
nice default MANIFEST.SKIP as part of the distribution:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly I've found for tight loops with lots of calculations, XS/C
is going to be faster. Why? Because it's compiled into machine code
and executed directly on the chip. On the other hand, Perl is compiled
into
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:51 AM, David Landgren da...@landgren.net wrote:
I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up
on the cont...@perl.org queue.
(I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me
to other similar Acme modules to
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jerry D. Hedden jdhed...@cpan.org wrote:
Consider Jeff Foxworthy making fun of rednecks. How is that different?
(Apologies if redneck jokes are too obscure for the non-Americans
reading this thread.)
Jeff Foxworthy is a comedian. (Damn good one, too!) But
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
Many of you know that the random number generator /dev/random
is subject to delays when it has not accumulated enough entropy,
which is to say randomness. These delays are said to be longer
on Linux /dev/random that on some other
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure how many of these modules use it -- in particular, I know
Math::Random::ISAAC only mentions it in POD. Using /dev/random isn't
very portable -- what happens when you're on Windows?
Some things may check
On Oct 31, 2009 6:38 PM, Ricardo Signes perl.moda...@rjbs.manxome.org
wrote:
* Burak Gürsoy burakgur...@gmx.net [2009-10-31T18:13:05]
I see that some modules have git:// protocol as the repo address in
META.yml and/or Pod. I don't...
I'm strongly opposed. There might not be any HTTP URL to my
Its also largely irrelevant, since the 2.0 META spec will distinguish
between repo and browseable interface.
David
On Oct 31, 2009 6:38 PM, Ricardo Signes perl.moda...@rjbs.manxome.org
wrote:
* Burak Gürsoy burakgur...@gmx.net [2009-10-31T18:13:05]
I see that some modules have git:// protocol
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Hans Dieter Pearcey
hdp.perl.module-auth...@weftsoar.net wrote:
There are a number of problems with this, but the biggest is that nothing
really does anything with 'recommends' in META.yml, so your audience is
basically going to be the people who go and read it
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, O. STeffen BEYer ost...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ryan,
thanks a lot for your fast response (see a copy at the bottom of this
message for convenience)!
See also Devel::CheckLib, which can check for a compiler for you (just
don't specify a lib) and has a handy
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:13 AM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
Most automated smoke testing will just quietly exit and continue. The
testers will never see the prompt. This is generally how automated
testers like it (though there are exceptions). Stopping at every Nth
module to figure out
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote:
I know that for several years Adam Kennedy has been attempting to provide
more rigorous, OS-specific definitions of 'home directory' in File::HomeDir.
As part of that effort, he had discussions with Chris Nandor re the
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM, cr...@animalhead.com wrote:
1. Why are there so few test reports? Supposedly the prompt( Please enter
path...)
which is provided by ExtUtils::MakeMaker, will not hang but will sense
the smoky
environment and return the default from $libpath.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net wrote:
Subversion is more like mercurial/git in that sense - versions go by
changesets rather than individual files.
I think he meant it in the sense of having a monotonically increasing
revision number, which doesn't exist for git.
--
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jerry D. Hedden jdhed...@cpan.org wrote:
package Workflow;
use Workflow::VERSION;
$Workflow::VERSION = $Workflow::VERSION::VERSION;
This sort of strategy caused problems with the CPANPLUS module code
awhile back in that the 'cpan-r' command showed its
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Jerry D. Hedden jdhed...@cpan.org wrote:
I use the three number form:
$VERSION = q(v1.2.3);
This may cause problems because it makes $VERSION a string,
namely, v1.2.3. This prohibits numeric version comparisons
which is the norm.
The quoting definitely
2009/9/5 Burak Gürsoy burakgur...@gmx.net:
From: Shmuel Fomberg [mailto:semu...@012.net.il]
what did I do wrong?
Your distro version does not have the underscore, so it's not marked as a dev
release. You should quote the version. i.e.:
our $VERSION = '0.26_01';
A bare underscore in
:58:26 EDT 2009
Bug fixes:
- Multiple test fixes for OS2 [Ilya Zakharevich]
- Generated.ppd files use :utf8 if possible (RT#48827) [Olivier Mengue]
- Fixed preservation of custom install_paths on resume (RT#41166)
[David Golden]
- Warn instead of crashing when Pod::Man tries to create files
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:33 AM, David Cantrellda...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
CPAN.pm already tells you if a new CPAN.pm is available, I'm simply
proposing extending that because no-one knows that the 'r' command
exists. I certainly didn't.
I like that idea.
Also, note that this time round
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Eric Wilhelmenoba...@gmail.com wrote:
# from David Cantrell
# on Thursday 27 August 2009 07:33:
WARNING: there are new versions of Module::Build and Module::Install
available, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade them
CPAN.pm already tells you if a
[Reposted from
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/458/call-for-proposals-cpan-meta-spec/
]
The CPAN META Spec is the basis for the META.yml metadata files
included in most modern CPAN distributions. Since the spec was last
updated two years ago, there have been suggestions in many forums for
how
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Jenda Krynickyje...@krynicky.cz wrote:
Is there any problem in the way I built the modules (using
Module::Build 0.2808)? Or is there anything wrong with the CPAN
indexer or something???
1.05 is the version listed in the CPAN index file, so for whatever
reason
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jenda Krynickyje...@krynicky.cz wrote:
On the other hand let me express my dissatisfaction with this
undertested, underannounced, abrupt and pretty annoying change.
It was in response to a perceived security hole. So yes, it was
underannounced and yes that's
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Bill Wardb...@wards.net wrote:
Do I understand this right? If a tar file contains a directory with
permissions 777 - as would be likely to happen if it was made on
Windows - then PAUSE rejects it? Why doesn't PAUSE just modify the
permissions in the tarfile
to the RT
queue:
http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=ExtUtils-ParseXS
Thank you.
David Golden
://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Module-Build
Thank you.
David Golden
libwin32 did it. It wasn't that many dists. Jan Dubois might have pointers.
The thing that jumps out to me as a potential problem is dependencly
management. Particularly, if anything is mutually dependent, they should
stay in the same dist.
David
On Aug 17, 2009 8:29 AM, Chris Fields
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Kartik Thakorethakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
either source or binaries. Since this will be my first CPAN module, how do I
upload the module? I already have a cpan account.
Read the instructions:
https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=pause_04about
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Andy Lestera...@petdance.com wrote:
On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:58 AM, imacat wrote:
Dear all,
I received this mail today. Is this real? Or is it another
phishing?
It's real.
I wrote the script. Andreas Koenig sent it out.
2009/7/30 Burak Gürsoy burakgur...@gmx.net:
BTW, I really *hope* that PAUSE is not dumb like PM to store passwords as
plain text?
The passwords on PAUSE are hashed, not plain text.
The plain text passwords from Perl Monks are being hashed to find
matches and matching accounts are being dealt
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Martin J.
Evansmartin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote:
I think a new version of version.pm was made available a few days ago by
David Golden (0.77). You fails results seem to mention if (0.77).
Perhaps this is the cause. I've cc'ed David just in case (apologies if
I'm
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote:
On May 11, 2009, at 5:37 PM, David Golden wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote:
Well, nobody asked for the data nor did anyone ever offer updates.
http://tinyurl.com/r26sxy
http
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Rockway j...@jrock.us wrote:
You seem to hate everything. I am confused as to why people even waste
their time trying to help you.
[snip]
Anyway, embrace modules. They are the reason to use Perl.
I think Bill gets Perl. (c.f.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Leto jal...@gmail.com wrote:
I very much recommend that you look at is_similar() in
Math::GSL::Test, it has implemented at least a
few wheels that you are destined to want:
Yikes. You must have missed Test::Number::Delta when you were writing
that. On
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
Add to this some complication from Module::Install, which also uses
Makefile.PL. So in that case maybe Makefile.PL is preferred (for
Module::Install to do its thing) rather than Build.PL. (On the other
hand, I don't
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net 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
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
If there has been any controversy, it's been about the fact that M::B
was the first tool to break from how we used to do it. This exposed
I'll add just my 2 cents to say that a good deal of the controversy
was hung up on
It's not explicitly prohibited to have more than one, but it's implied
that it describes a distribution, not a directory tree within a
distribution. And the current crop of tools only look for META.yml at
the top level directory.
As for the first question, I point you to visitcpan for your
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are legally required to do so, then you may use this file under, at
your option:
1. The MIT/X11 License; or,
2. The BSD License; or,
3. The Perl Artistic License, version 2.0 or later; or,
4. The GNU General
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I'm not sure if it's of any value to you however the folks
behind the
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
David:
Interesting idea. I'll add that in as option 6. I don't want to
replace the others though in case the web site disappears at some
point in the future, making the license pretty ambiguous.
More formally, you
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com wrote:
WWW::Vimeo.
That would be my choice. Adding API seems redundant.
David
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net wrote:
I agree about dropping API, but prefer Net. WWW to me suggests web browsers
and HTML.
There are certainly plenty of web-service interface modules popping up
under Net. Personally, I wish people used that only for lower-level
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
# from Jonathan Rockway
# on Tuesday 03 March 2009 10:16:
This is just one of the many things I have been upset with the
treatment of in my Computer Science program--it's way too academic,
and not applied enough, but I
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
And nobody ever picks $good, yet they wonder why they get what they get.
I think it's related to difficulty of judging future opportunity
costs. Paying for $good has an immediate cost now over paying for
$decent, but it's
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