Re: Module name hierarchy...

2020-09-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 30 September 2020 07:55:40 CEST BC wrote: > I can avoid the whole problem by > just picking a different but similar name: > > Class::Fault > > which is currently not used. For my purposes that name works well. > The only thing I don't like is that it feels like I am squatting o

Re: What is best practice for 'git reset'?

2017-04-20 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30:58 CEST James E Keenan wrote: > Would the following be the recommend sequence of git commands? > > $ git checkout master > $ git checkout -b start-anew > $ git reset --soft 2.12_002 git reset --soft does not change the working tree. So the change between 2.12_00

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le dimanche 25 octobre 2015 16:49:03, vous avez écrit : > As far as I can tell, dh-make-perl is already using CPAN::Meta, and > preferring META.json over META.yml as it should > (DhMakePerl::Command::Packaging::process_meta), I don't think there' a > problem there. Oh well... Looks like I was misl

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le samedi 10 octobre 2015, 15:45:38 15:45:38 Leon Timmermans a écrit : > Also I think some packagers may be using it. Debian uses the information from META to create and refresh Perl package in Debian format. More specifically, the tool used to create and refresh package (dh-make-perl [1]) need

Re: [Request for Comments] How to properly handle three-dotted-decimals $VERSIONS (e.g '0.0.7') of .pm files and distributions?

2015-06-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 01 June 2015 12:48:26 Daniel Staal wrote: > They mean what they mean to the author of the code. *Many* projects use > MAJOR.MINOR.REVISION, where 'Major' is API/User interface changes, 'Minor' > is features and small changes, and 'Revision' is bugfixes and security > patches. It's pr

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-02-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le samedi 16 février 2013 17:27:10, vous avez écrit : > ... now I'm just thinking wild, wild thoughts, but did anybody at > any time proposed to have, just like $VERSION, a $DISTRIBUTION variable > indicating to which dist the module belongs to? With that, the version > mechanisms could be

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-02-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le jeudi 10 janvier 2013 19:34:51, yan...@babyl.dyndns.org a écrit : > So, yeah, I've embraced the per-dist version, and > have lived happily ever after... Well, if you look at that diff [1] provided by CPAN, knowing that only *one* file was really changed, you'll see a big drawback of

Re: How to list optional dependencies?

2011-07-12 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 13 July 2011 00:18:08, Ivan Wills a écrit : > The documentation for Module::Build doesn't mention "recommends" does it > work the same way as "requires" and "build_requires"? "recommends" is mentioned in Module::Build::Authoring: http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Module- Build-0.3800/

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 14 mars 2011 16:22:22, Gabor Szabo a écrit : > To be on the safe side I decided to not even try the code so I won't need > to look at it which might break the license. > > What do you think? Well, if you look at the source code, you see that abhishek did reuse code from Nicholas Perez [

Re: Consensus on MakeMaker vs. Module::Build vs. Module::Install?

2010-03-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 22 mars 2010 20:50:51, David Golden a écrit : > Module::Install gives EU::MM a friendlier interface -- I'd > even say a new lease on life -- at the cost of increased complexity > from its black box and the risk that you, as a distribution the > author, might have to re-release everything i

Re: for review: Elapse.pm

2001-12-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
tUtils::MakeMaker; # See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence # the contents of the Makefile that is written. WriteMakefile ( 'NAME' => 'Text::Vpp', 'VERSION_FROM' => 'Vpp.pm', # finds $VERSION ABSTRACT =>

Re: for review: Elapse.pm

2001-12-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) writes: > just a bit of silliness I conconcted while reading Damian's OOP... Your > thoughtful appraisal and suggestions would be most welcome. I'm still > experimenting with it off and on. :-) This module could be useful. I don't see any reason to not uploa

RFC: New HPUX::Ioscan module

2001-01-02 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I've written for my needs an interface module that works on top of the HP-UX command ioscan. This module is quite basic but it interests some people in the community. (See the small thread in c.l.p.modules for further details) So do you agree that: - The HPUX:: namespace should be created

Re: RFC: Dir::Path

2000-06-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
David Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having recently needed to do some fairly involved work with path variables > (i.e. not just 'PATH' but /PATH$/, on multiple platforms, I went looking > for a Perl module that would help me and was quite surprised to not find > one. I would have thought

Re: Proposed New Module: WWW::BBSWatch

2000-04-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I posted this to c.l.p.m two days > > ago without response. Thought I'd try here before offering it to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This module requires LWP::UserAgent and > > MIME::Lite. Should I create a Bundle:: package?