Re: BackPAN mirror owners: please delete Finance::FuturesQuote

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Schneider
David Landgren wrote: Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that offers (I would imagine) futures quotes. The author of this module has received a cease-and-desist letter from the owner of the web site, since the module is in violation of the Terms of Use. I'm guessing,

Re: YA CSV parser

2007-11-25 Thread Jim Schneider
Joshua ben Jore wrote: Didn't you just reinvent Text::CSV_XS? The only tweak required is saying "binary" to enable the use of newlines inside quoted fields. ->new({ binary => 1, # defaults eol => qq(\r\n), sep_char => q(,), quote_char => q("), escape_char => q("), }) Jo

Re: YA CSV parser

2007-11-25 Thread Jim Schneider
David Cantrell wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:59:46PM -0500, Jim Schneider wrote: I wrote a streaming CSV parser yesterday ... If anyone knows of a module on CPAN that does all this, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll upload my module sometime in the next week or two. BTW, the

Re: YA CSV parser

2007-11-25 Thread Jim Schneider
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Jim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-25 20:00]: BTW, the name I'm currently using for this module is "CSV::Parse" - let me know if you have a specific suggestion for a name you like better. There is already a Parse::CSV on CPAN. I th

YA CSV parser

2007-11-25 Thread Jim Schneider
I wrote a streaming CSV parser yesterday because I couldn't find a CSV parsing module that does what I want (despite the plethora of available choices). The parsing rules are pretty simple: 1) At the start of a field, if you find a quote string, eat the quote string and go to the state that

Is anyone using DBIx::ORM::Declarative?

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Schneider
I am contemplating making some incompatible changes to DBIx::ORM::Declarative, and I need to know if I'll wind up breaking anything for someone else. Please reply to me directly if you do - I don't monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-07 Thread Jim Schneider
A. Pagaltzis wrote: even with the current interface, it’s possible to load a to.pm if you do it this way: use relative to => __PACKAGE __, qw(to from before after boo); But that’s a) noisy b) less than self-suggesting. My I suggest this: use relative to => "self", qw(foo bar roo); Any

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-21 Thread Jim Schneider
Ovid wrote: Being an *extremely* political creature, I'm sorely tempted to wade into this mess, but I won't. Can we just agree to stick to the license's suitability for the CPAN? Cheers, Ovid Perhaps this is just a "me, too"... The law of unintended consequences ("Every action has at least tw

Re: RFC: new module Finance::MortgageCalculator

2006-11-07 Thread Jim Schneider
Perhaps Finance::Calculator::Mortgage? - Original Message - From: "Dmitri Tikhonov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Smylers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:32 AM Subject: Re: RFC: new module Finance::MortgageCalculator Mortgages may compound differently -- mon

Re: Proposed module names - DBIx::Class::Simple

2006-03-14 Thread Jim Schneider
From: "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DBIx::ORM::Declarative? Perfect! Thank you so much.

Re: Proposed module name - template loader

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Schneider
From: "Eric Wilhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # from Jim Schneider # on Sunday 12 March 2006 03:44 pm: 3) Well, I'm currently calling it TemplateLoader, but that's too horrible for words. Your provide some particulars on the module "use" line, and it creates a me

Re: Proposed module names - usps scraper

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Schneider
From: "Eric Wilhelm" # from Jim Schneider # on Sunday 12 March 2006 03:44 pm: 2) WWW::Scraper::Zip4 - a simple web scraper to retrieve address information from the USPS website. Is this a module and a frontend? Seems like it shoud be something like App::USPS::Scraper unless i

Re: Proposed module names - DBIx::Class::Simple

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Schneider
I appologize. I wasn't terribly clear. I was hoping for suggestions as to what name would be appropriate - I'm quite well aware that the names I have are bad. David Landgren wrote: David Golden wrote: Jim Schneider wrote: -- I think you may be best if you come up with you

Proposed module names

2006-03-12 Thread Jim Schneider
I have three modules I am preparing to submit to CPAN, and I was hoping to get some input on the names.   The modules are: 1)  DBIx::Class::Simple - a simpler alternative to DBIx::Class, but alas, not compatible (not even a little bit).  It takes a collection of data structures that describe