Re: How to do co-maintenance on CPAN distro which uses Dist::Zilla(Travis and other questions)

2020-01-24 Thread James E Keenan
Recap: On 1/23/20 3:03 PM, James E Keenan wrote: I have been granted COMAINT status by Paul Fenwick on CPAN distribution IPC-System-Simple.  This distribution is built and maintained using Dist::Zilla and quite a few Dist::Zilla plugins.  I do not, in general, use Dist::Zilla in any of my own

Re: How to do co-maintenance on CPAN distro which uses Dist::Zilla(Travis and other questions)

2020-01-23 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/23/20 3:18 PM, Dan Book wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:04 PM James E Keenan <mailto:jkee...@pobox.com>> wrote: I have been granted COMAINT status by Paul Fenwick on CPAN distribution IPC-System-Simple.  This distribution is built and maintained using Dist::Zilla an

How to do co-maintenance on CPAN distro which uses Dist::Zilla (Travis and other questions)

2020-01-23 Thread James E Keenan
I have been granted COMAINT status by Paul Fenwick on CPAN distribution IPC-System-Simple. This distribution is built and maintained using Dist::Zilla and quite a few Dist::Zilla plugins. I do not, in general, use Dist::Zilla in any of my own CPAN distributions. It's much too "auto-magicky"

Re: executable only Perl distributions & CPAN

2018-09-12 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/12/2018 08:02 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 01:18:28PM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Diab Jerius wrote: I see two options: 1. Create an empty package which gets indexed; or 2. Add an entry to the "provides" field mapping the distribu

Re: executable only Perl distributions & CPAN

2018-09-07 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/07/2018 04:18 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Diab Jerius > wrote: I see two options: 1.  Create an empty package which gets indexed; or 2.  Add an entry to the "provides" field mapping the distribution's "package" n

Re: Is it ok taking the Refute::* namespace?

2017-09-09 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/06/2017 11:12 AM, Dan Book wrote: On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Konstantin S. Uvarin > wrote: Now to the subject. Would it be fine to take up a whole top-level namespace, or should I stick to a humbler naming scheme like Assert::Refute? If I do tak

Re: Module naming -- processing 3D JPEG files...

2017-05-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 05/03/2017 04:12 AM, Smylers wrote: BC writes: I'd like some feedback and advice for naming some modules I am contemplating. Image::Stereo::MPO Image::Stereo::JPS Image::Stereo::JPG Sounds good to me — you've clearly considered this carefully, and your explanations make sense. S

What is best practice for 'git reset'?

2017-04-20 Thread James E Keenan
I am maintainer of a CPAN distribution whose most recent official release is version 2.12. Since 2.12 was published, we have made the following development releases: 2.12_001 2.12_002 2.12_003 2.12_004 In the git repository, we have tags for: 2.12_002 2.12_003 2.12_004 (Somehow 2.12_001 was

Re: Namespace advice for Git-related package

2016-11-01 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/27/2016 11:25 AM, Smylers wrote: James E Keenan writes: Alternatively, Devel::Git::MultiBisect would indicate that this is a tool for Perl development use. And that's what I ultimately went with! This is indeed a developer's tool. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-Git-M

Namespace advice for Git-related package

2016-10-27 Thread James E Keenan
I am in the process of developing a CPAN library which I am considering calling Git-Multisect-Perl. The library would have packages with names starting with 'Git::Multisect::Perl::' and would contain an associated command-line utility to be called 'multisect'. Given a Perl library or applicat

Re: How to avoid circular module dependencies within a distribution?

2016-10-18 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/18/2016 02:05 AM, David Christensen wrote: module-authors: I am in the process of writing a Perl distribution that currently contains a dozen or so packages, several dozen exportable subroutines, and over a hundred exportable constants. At this point I feel compelled to ask: Why? Why d

Re: Comment on module name Data::ETL

2016-05-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 05/04/2016 09:27 AM, Smylers wrote: Robert Wohlfarth writes: I'm weighing 3 ideas... 2. Create a top-level namespace for ETL. Idea 2 looks like so... * ETL * ETL::Extract * ETL::Extract::Excel * ETL::Extract::DelimitedText * ETL::Extract::XML * ETL::Load * ETL::Load::MSAccess Not necessar

Re: good form for discontinuing a module

2015-06-08 Thread James E Keenan
On 06/07/2015 02:38 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: The PDL::FFTW module is out-of-date and has been essentially broken for a long time without anyone being aware of it. It has been marked deprecated in favor of PDL::FFTW3 and I think now is the time to finally remove it from CPAN. Should I just go a

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/30/2015 06:10 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/04/2015 10:43 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Hi Tim, * Tim Bunce [2015-04-04 13:25]: Independently of that, I'd love to see something like a 'mentioned by' page. It would list all other distros that mention (via an L link) a module in this distro. d’oh – of course. It would look like

Re: Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/09/2015 07:54 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:44 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Suggestions? I would guess a quotemeta (for example in the form of \Q$id_dir\E) will fix your problem. Leon Thanks, Leon, that appeared to work: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist

Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-09 Thread James E Keenan
This weekend I gave my CPAN library CPAN-Mini-Visit-Simple an overhaul, a large part of which was guaranteeing that CPAN Testers handled the absence of a minicpan gracefully. As a result, for the first time I'm getting lots of green on my results matrix (http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CPA

How avert warning re MYMETA.* ?

2015-02-13 Thread James E Keenan
When I am working on an update to a CPAN distribution, I say "make clean", then create the Makefile in the customary way -- but I get a warning about files missing from my "kit". # $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:

Re: "throw away" module namespace

2014-12-12 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/12/2014 11:38 AM, Yanick Champoux wrote: On 14-12-12 11:33 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: Else, any recommendations on how to accomplish the goal of not locking in the namespaces until the organization of the various components settle down? Just throwing ideas: an alternative would be to have

Re: Broken CPAN Modules

2014-09-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/16/2014 06:16 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Actually, while I managed to install quite a few modules, there were a few that were "not found" on CPAN by cpanm: eg. Dancer, Catalyst::Runtime and WWW::Shorten For example I just saw this: $ cpanm Catalyst::Runtime Catalyst::Runtime --> Working on

Re: Top level name proposal - ComputeCluster

2014-09-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/04/2014 10:23 AM, John Macdonald wrote: Hi, I wanted to get general comment/concensus about a top level name that I am proposing. I'm starting to organize a set of modules for managing jobs on a computer cluster. I intend it to work much like DBI - with a top level abstract interface tha

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/9/13 5:03 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 07:01:32PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: It's not a big deal, I add a Makefile.PL. I must admit I struggled with Dist::Zilla myself when I had to install my own module in other servers. Today I found a few minut

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-06 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/4/13 3:12 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:09:16PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: 2. Is the source code publicly available somewhere, e.g., github.com? I don't know what I was waiting for. Here it is now: https://github.com/frankiejol/Test-SQL-Data

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-06 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/4/13 3:12 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:09:16PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: 1. Is this module built on the Test::Builder framework in the way that Test::Simple, Test::More, Test::Most, etc., are? It is not built on Test::Builder. It requires Test::More. It

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/27/13 7:31 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: Hi. I wrote a module to help writing tests for modules that perform operations in SQL databases. I was considering the name Test::SQL::Data In short, it helps running SQL tests: database preparing and result matching. When the module loads it pr

Re: Problem naming a module

2013-11-25 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/25/13 8:04 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:27:58PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: [snip] The other option is to give up on being descriptive, and come up with a "brand" name. In which case, Fleur is just as fine as anything else. :-) No, it's not. "F

Re: What to call a module that rewrites Perl code

2013-09-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 9/2/13 5:36 PM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Thank you for your comments. To answer various questions/suggestions/comments: - It will be for rewriting Perl, exclusively, using PPI, with Perl-centric rules, so "Code" is not an appropriate namespace. (I don't think the PPI namespace is appropriate

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/11/13 12:26 AM, Matt Simerson wrote: I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? perldoc -q module or perldoc perlfaq7

Re: Mail::DMARC

2012-10-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/5/12 4:52 AM, Davide Migliavacca wrote: Hi, I am currently working at an implementation of DMARC support in a Perl module. My guess for the name would be Mail::DMARC (as Mail::DKIM provides support for DKIM). Module will provide an XS wrapper for libopendmarc from opendmarc.org, (my approa

Re: Please help me name my text template module... or else!

2012-10-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/8/12 5:03 PM, Brian Katzung wrote: ... or else we'll all have to live with my name for it. :-) I tried posting on comp.lang.perl.modules (I forgot which how-to doc suggested it) when naming Data::XHash and got zero feedback. Since the Pause naming article suggests modu...@perl.org and mod

Re: Finance::OFX is missing

2012-01-15 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/31/11 10:39 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: On Dec 30, 2011, at 19:39 , James E Keenan wrote: On 12/30/11 2:00 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Well, it's sort of missing. It's still listed on search.cpan.org (http://search.cpan.org/~bfoz/Finance-OFX-2/lib/Finance/OFX.pm) but I got a r

Re: Hello PAUSE

2012-01-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 1/10/12 7:05 PM, Jed Lund wrote: Hello all (again), I think I may have made my first mistake by not suggesting a possible set of names that I am considering in order to provide a place to start for feedback from this distribution. [snip] For the DateTime::Format mashup I am considering. D

Re: Finance::OFX is missing

2011-12-31 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/30/11 2:00 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Well, it's sort of missing. It's still listed on search.cpan.org (http://search.cpan.org/~bfoz/Finance-OFX-2/lib/Finance/OFX.pm) but I got a report from a user that CPAN says that it's unavailable. I tried it myself and got: The module Finance

Re: namespace check request

2010-11-26 Thread James E Keenan
Tim Esselens wrote: Hi, I have written a small perl module, and would like to include it on CPAN. https://github.com/blaze-x/net-ldap-filter-sql Am I using the correct namespace? -- kind regards, Tim Esselens You're inheriting from Net::LDAP::Filter, so this looks okay to me. jimk

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-13 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: If EU::MM does the job easily, then use it. Agreed. In research I did on CPAN modules that contain XS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker was still used 10 times as often as Module::Build. Granted, that largely reflects historical legacies. But it also indicates that EU::MM is far

Re: Namespace request

2010-06-04 Thread James E Keenan
Ruslan N. Marchenko wrote: Hi list, For now it utilises root space FRA, however I understand that I need to choose something more apropriate. I'm thinking on Net::Appliance::FRA or Net::Appliance::Firewall... I like Net::Appliance::*. Net::Appliance::FRA is nice and short -- but for that

pause.perl.org: cert expired

2010-05-15 Thread James E Keenan
pause.perl.org Issued by: CAcert Class 3 Root Expires: May 10, 2012 6:18:36 PM EDT Who should be notified? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

Re: CPAN Testers, and {build,test}_requires.

2010-05-12 Thread James E Keenan
Daniel Pittman wrote: G'day. Oh, and finally, if anyone has any comments on the module — for all that it is really about as trivial as a module can be and all — I would welcome them publicly or privately. Attempted to test version 1.1. I note in your Makefile.PL, you have: 'BUILD_REQU

Goodbye Perl6::Say

2010-04-15 Thread James E Keenan
Recently I had occasion to discuss with Damian Conway whether the continued presence of distribution Perl6::Say was still warranted. We both agreed that it was time for this distro to retire to the backpan. Perl6::Say was created by Damian in the early part of this decade as one of the first

Re: Registering a file as failed if it prompts for user input

2010-03-02 Thread James E Keenan
Ben Morrow wrote: PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL Thanks for the suggestion, Ben. It seems to work some of the time, but not all the time. For example, the first time my program called 'perl Makefile.PL' for distribution 'F/FL/FLORA/Net-SSLeay', I got this: $ perl Makefile.PL Cannot

Registering a file as failed if it prompts for user input

2010-03-01 Thread James E Keenan
As part of our project to refactor ExtUtils::ParseXS, I am in the process of building functionality to identify CPAN distributions that contain .xs files and to run 'perl Makefile.PL && make' (or their Module::Build equivalents) on those distributions. At this point in development, I only want

Re: Structure of a CPAN distribution: sample .pl files; .tar.gz for use in testing

2010-03-01 Thread James E Keenan
Jonathan Rockway wrote: * On Sat, Feb 27 2010, Skriptke wrote: I did a similar question recently: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2010/02/msg8235.html The conclusion: Add any library, etc.. to directory 'share'. Use install_share 'share'; of Module::Install; to install this.

Structure of a CPAN distribution: sample .pl files; .tar.gz for use in testing

2010-02-27 Thread James E Keenan
Two questions related to the directory structure of a distribution intended for CPAN: 1. What is the current best practice for including sample Perl 5 programs intended to illustrate usage of the module? What directory should they be placed in? 2. Is it possible to include another archive

Re: how to mv files on PAUSE

2010-02-16 Thread James E Keenan
Bill Ward wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bill Weinman wrote: On 2010-02-15 11:52 AM, Bill Ward wrote: I think you probably should just delete it and re-upload it. That would have been my inclination -- but apparently it takes three days to delete a file and in the mean time it w

Re: problem building my Server-Control from CPAN - 98 "Use of uninitialized value" warnings

2009-10-01 Thread James E Keenan
Jonathan Swartz wrote: I'm having a strange first-time problem building my new Server-Control distribution from CPAN on Fedora. To reproduce this, I first run this reset script to remove Server-Control from my .cpan and system: [snip] cpan[1]> install Server::Control CPAN: Storable

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-25 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: Does that not assume that you're using Apple's build of perl? Apparently it's independent of which build of Perl you're using. I build Perl from source, so 'which perl' is '/usr/local/bin/perl'. Nevertheless, my personal CPAN configuration in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-21 Thread James E Keenan
David Golden wrote: So on OSX, if your .cpan directory is under ~/Library/Application\ Support/.cpan then you should probably customize CPAN's 'build_dir' option to a path without spaces: Which is what I did. My build/ and sources/ directory remain under ~/.cpan/; only CPAN/MyConfig.pm is i

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-20 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: [snip] However, when I was using the 'cpan' shell yesterday, I found that it was no longer honoring configuration settings in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Instead, it was reverting to settings found in the "vendor perl" location established when I got

Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-20 Thread James E Keenan
I experienced a problem yesterday which recalls the 'cpan' usage problem described in this group on Sept 11 by Shawn H Corey (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2009/09/msg7854.html). Yesterday I was using the 'cpan' shell for the first time in a couple of months on my laptop.

Re: Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

2009-07-14 Thread James E Keenan
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-06-18 04:25]: I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more. I see from another thread that this module was recen

Re: Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

2009-07-14 Thread James E Keenan
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-06-18 04:25]: I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more. Actually, http://github.com/ap/Getopt--Auto has my wor

Re: Name space for provisional astronomical objects

2008-04-07 Thread James E Keenan
Alan Barclay wrote: I've got a new module I'd like to publish. [snip] I'd suggest Astro::ID::Provisional as a namespace. Astro already exists, but ID doesn't. There are however other identifiers used in astronomy, so adding in Provisional makes sense. Go for it.

Re: Fwd: Data-Structure-Util fails tests on 5.10.0

2008-03-06 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Armstrong wrote: As Nick explains Fotango no longer exist. Sad ... but it makes all those orange Fotango pens I collected at past YAPCs very valuable!

Re: Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-05 Thread James E Keenan
Chris Dolan wrote: On Jun 5, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Andy Lester wrote: Yes. Second-order dependencies are beyond your control. You will have false dependencies when an underlying module changes. Say that Mech has dependency on HTML::Wango, which in turn has a dependency on Test::Tango. So my

Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-05 Thread James E Keenan
I am preparing to take over maintenance of another CPAN contributor's distribution. For argument's sake, let me generalize my problem. Suppose that the Makefile.PL includes the following key-value pair in WriteMakefile(): PREREQ_PM => { 'Alpha::Beta' => 0, 'Gamma::Delta'

Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)

2007-05-24 Thread James E Keenan
Peter Michaux wrote: Hi, I'm writing a new version of JavaScript::Minification on CPAN. This is my first CPAN module and first Perl project! If someone is willing to take a look to see if I've done something terribly wrong packaging the code I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Currently th

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: At first I thought I might have deleted two revisions of WWW::Mechanize by mistake, but it's not just Mech: SOAP::Lite is missing revisions. http://search.cpan.org/dist/SOAP-Lite/ only shows SOAP::Lite up to 0.60a, but I know for a fact that there's been a 0.67. http://se

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ shows 1.29_01 that I uploaded earlier in the week, but 1.26 has disappeared. Different mirrors have different sets of modules. For example: * http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ shows 1.24 and

Re: CPAN::Porters

2007-05-16 Thread James E Keenan
Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, What do you think? Gabor I think that is a good idea whose success, in practical terms, will depend on whether you can recruit people to the project who are expert in preparing binary packages for a specific OS. To guide/coach people to prepare RPMs, for exampl

Re: META.yml not being refreshed

2007-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
Ken Williams wrote: And will that solve the problem? What caused the problem in the first place? No idea, but if it's EU::MM that's supposed to be writing it and it's not writing it, it must be an EU::MM bug. Or maybe a configuration problem. This is what I did tonight: 1. Upgra

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-03 Thread James E Keenan
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Who do I need to contact to get access permission on svn.perl.org so I can add the 'threads' and 'threads::shared' modules to it? Andy Lester wrote: I recommend using Google Code hosting at code.google.com instead. Setup is trivial, as is add

Re: James Freeman's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-13 Thread James E Keenan
Fergal Daly wrote: Changing the subject from Keenan to Freeman (James Keenan is not MIA), Yes, the reports of my demise are quite premature. Ironically, today we had the first meeting of Perl Seminar NY's Phalanx Phoenix project (http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=586406), whose exp

Re: no contact with author

2007-01-02 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Darek Dwornikowski # on Tuesday 02 January 2007 09:49 am: i wrote to him twice, trying different emails. his personal webpage is dead too.. I do not want to take over, I thought I could contact him trough this list. File a bug in rt? This is a good suggestion

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-17 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: CPAN appears to be having some problem accepting uploads right now. You can find v0.06 at http://thenceforward.net/perl/modules/List-RewriteElements/List-RewriteElements-0.06.tar.gz The CPAN hiccups cleared up after a couple of hours, so you can now get List

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: I've just uploaded v0.06 to CPAN. CPAN appears to be having some problem accepting uploads right now. You can find v0.06 at http://thenceforward.net/perl/modules/List-RewriteElements/List-RewriteElements-0.06.tar.gz jimk

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 15 Dec 2006, at 21:39, David Landgren wrote: I vote for Transform. Possibly more Data than List but I wouldn't argue it for long. List:: has the connotation doing things to Perl arrays I think. In Perl an array is a data structure which can hold a list, where a

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
David Landgren wrote: Question: (?:how)? does your module deal with positional records (that is, fixed width fields)? as opposed to delimited records? Contradicting my earlier doubts about this, List::RewriteElements does can be used to rewrite elements of fixed-width records. I've jus

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: David Landgren wrote: Question: (?:how)? does your module deal with positional records (that is, fixed width fields)? It doesn't (at least not yet). I think I'm wrong. Thinking a bit more about the code, I suspect there's no inherent reason

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-15 Thread James E Keenan
David Landgren wrote: James E Keenan did write: I am preparing a module for CPAN tentatively titled List::RewriteElements. Given a list of data records, typically in the form of a flat file, optionally containing a header row, I am frequently asked to generate a new file in which each

Re: Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules

2006-11-28 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: We would like to begin our F2F sessions in January 2006. No, we're actually aiming for January 2007! jimk

Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules

2006-11-27 Thread James E Keenan
Perl Seminar New York, sponsor of monthly technical meetings in New York City since 2000 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/), announces the initiation of "Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules." The original Phalanx project, initiated by Andy Lester (http://qa.per

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-24 Thread James E Keenan
David Golden wrote: I want to endorse imacat on her contributions. She runs one of the best smoke testers on cpan-testers: it's really strict and seems to catch lots of people out on subtle dependency problems. She's also been very responsive to questions I've had about failed test report

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: > Hi all, > > No names, but if you happen to be sitting on a module which other people > depend on and you're not going to fix bugs, give up the module, offer someone > co-maintainership or figure out *something* which gives users a way out. I > realize that not everyone has a pile

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-04 Thread James E Keenan
Dmitri Tikhonov wrote: > Dear fellow Perl module authors: > > I have a test suite for my distribution (RT-Client-REST) that requires > some modules that the module itself does not require (Test::Exception, > for example). Since it is not listed as a dependency, some people's > tests fail[1,2]. >

Re: Module maintainers: What have you experienced?

2006-07-08 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: Last week I mentioned (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/4576) that I will be leading a discussion at YAPC in Chicago on the process of taking over maintenance of CPAN modules. This will be based partly on my own experiences in taking over maintenance of

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

2006-06-11 Thread James E Keenan
Linda W wrote: I was going through the Win:: modules and wanted to try a few, but got stuck when a basic one failed to work: Win32::API (http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Win32-API). [snip] So what is the procedure for dealing with abandoned modules? Are they put up for adoption or what? -linda

Module maintainers: What have you experienced?

2006-05-28 Thread James E Keenan
Last week I mentioned (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/4576) that I will be leading a discussion at YAPC in Chicago on the process of taking over maintenance of CPAN modules. This will be based partly on my own experiences in taking over maintenance of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker

Re: Devel::Timer, Jason Moore

2006-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Jay Hannah wrote: Jay Hannah wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~jmoore/ Anyone have a way to contact Jason? Bummer. The whois admin of sober.com doesn't know how to reach Jason either... Anyone else have any other ideas? If not, thoughts on my adoption of Devel::Timer? As part of prepara

Re: Devel::Timer, Jason Moore

2006-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Jay Hannah wrote: Jay Hannah wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~jmoore/ Anyone have a way to contact Jason? Bummer. The whois admin of sober.com doesn't know how to reach Jason either... Anyone else have any other ideas? If not, thoughts on my adoption of Devel::Timer? As part of prepara

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
Robert Rothenberg wrote: On 05/07/2006 02:34 PM Ken Williams wrote: I've just re-released Pod::Readme without a signature, because the signature problems are choking up Module::Build users. Module::Build doesn't do anything with signatures - all it knows how to do is generate a signature fi

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
Ken Williams wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: I'm reminder of one other issue: there are Windows vs Unix end-of-line issues that it sometimes chokes on. I've just re-released Pod::Readme without a signature, because the signature problems are choking up Module::

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-06 Thread James E Keenan
Robert Rothenberg (CPAN) wrote: This is really frustrating. I'm not sure how to solve this, aside from giving up on signing my CPAN uploads altogether. That signature failures on automated CPAN Tester Reports show up as test failures only reinforces this view. I'm curious as to other authors'

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-06 Thread James E Keenan
Robert Rothenberg (CPAN) wrote: This is really frustrating. I'm not sure how to solve this, aside from giving up on signing my CPAN uploads altogether. That signature failures on automated CPAN Tester Reports show up as test failures only reinforces this view. I'm curious as to other authors'

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Flavio S. Glock wrote: I'm not sure if it fills all requirements, but see also: Set::Infinite http://search.cpan.org/~fglock/Set-Infinite-0.61/lib/Set/Infinite.pm - Flavio S. Glock I've been giving further study to Set::Infinite. I concede that I may not understand the documentation correctly

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Flavio S. Glock wrote: I'm not sure if it fills all requirements, but see also: Set::Infinite http://search.cpan.org/~fglock/Set-Infinite-0.61/lib/Set/Infinite.pm - Flavio S. Glock Yes, I have looked into it, have already given it one mention in the SEE ALSO, and will look into it some more be

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Terrence Brannon wrote: On 4/9/06, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Set::Gapfillers - Fill in the gaps between integer ranges What practical situation led to you needing this module? I'm curious. Another Perl Seminar NY member and I have been working on a web app

RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-09 Thread James E Keenan
I have created a module suitable for uploading to CPAN and request comments on its name. Here is the first part of the documentation of what is currently called "Set-Gapfillers": * NAME Set::Gapfillers - Fill in the gaps between integer ranges SYNOPSIS use Set::Gapfillers;

Re: OO list module

2006-02-26 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from James E Keenan # on Sunday 26 February 2006 06:19 am: I suspect you're mainly looking for feedback on the interface, which I haven't really looked at yet. Yes, please. The goal is primarily the interface. Fair enough. I don't really un

Re: OO list module

2006-02-26 Thread James E Keenan
Eric: This looks promising. I suspect you're mainly looking for feedback on the interface, which I haven't really looked at yet. But in testing it 3 of the 4 test files were skipped. Perhaps that's okay for a distribution in the experimental stage, but I know that it would give me pause i

Re: Why is module list not more up-to-date?

2005-11-29 Thread James E Keenan
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: There's some sort of drive failure in the CPAN's master mirror. Unfortunately, it has not been written about here, yet: http://log.perl.org/ Thanks, Ricardo. I was not previously aware of log.perl.org. jimk

Why is module list not more up-to-date?

2005-11-28 Thread James E Keenan
Tonight I had occasion to check www.cpan.org's various pages. Specifically: http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html I notice that the timestamp on this page says: Fri Nov 18 22:56:49 2005 GMT ... 10 days ago. And this appears to be the date that my CPAN.pm is using as a referen

Re: When CPAN shell cannot find a module

2005-11-21 Thread James E Keenan
Randy Kobes wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, James E Keenan wrote: [snip] Note that, if you know the distribtion you want to install, CPAN.pm understands cpan> install KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz That's the step I was looking for: what to do once the 'i /somemodule/'

When CPAN shell cannot find a module

2005-11-20 Thread James E Keenan
I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct. When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not include a package with the name of the distribution, the shell immediately tells me to use the 'i /distroname/' to find objects with matching identifie

Re: PPM "Fails" Question - What did I do wrong?

2005-11-16 Thread James E Keenan
On further analysis, I don't think your problems are due to some problem at ActiveState. Games-Poker-HistoryParser-1.3 failed tests and threw many warnings when I tested it on Darwin. See attachment. jimk Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"

Re: PPM "Fails" Question - What did I do wrong?

2005-11-15 Thread James E Keenan
Troy Denkinger wrote: I was looking around the ActiveState PPM repository today and I noticed that a module I released recently was reported as having failed on most, but not all, platforms. I'd like this module to appear in the ActiveState repository, so I figure I better fix my code up. My

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-10 Thread James E Keenan
Sam Vilain wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:08 -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * "Andreas J. Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-07T17:29:50] I will be very happy if you guys decide something and let me know. I'll adjust the code for the forms on PAUSE then. Here's my official vote: (length $

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-08 Thread James E Keenan
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:41:27 +1300, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 07:51 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> > So, the question I would now ask: How rigidly should I enforce the >> > 44-character limit if I am guiding someone in the

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-05 Thread James E Keenan
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-05 13:35]: Since the 44-character limit never applied to modules except those intended for CPAN, and since it does not now appear to apply to modules as they appear on search.cpan.org, I'm inclined toward the latt

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-05 Thread James E Keenan
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:48:10 +1200, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This was probably for the sake of the text-only modules list, which has > since fallen out of maintenance. But it's still relevant for the database table that is behind https://pause.p

Updates of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker, ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::PBP Now Available

2005-10-02 Thread James E Keenan
Version 0.43 of Perl extension ExtUtils::ModuleMaker is now available on CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker/) as is version 0.08 of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::PBP (http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker-PBP/). ExtUtils::ModuleMaker was created by Geoff Avery and is a

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