Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hey Paul, This seems like an abuse of POD to me. Disadvantages include: 1. Someone can upload junk modules that force yours to link to it (this may not be a problem if users are clear that mention of a module in perldoc is not an endorsement); and 2. There's no support for this behaviour in perld

Re: linux packaging for Alien::XXX modules

2014-01-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hey Chris, I think this is actually the usual approach, although it does have a cost for distributions as an extra package must be built separately. The costs are to build infrastructure (more packages need to be built), developer workload, and to mirrors (bandwidth). As an example, there are 3 pa

Re: Request for feedback: interface to 06perms.txt

2012-10-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > However, I'm a bit lairy of "tests should not contact remote systems at > all". > For what it's worth, Debian packagers prefer to have an environment variable (i.e. TEST_INTERNET, HAS_INTERNET) be set before running any tests that explicitl

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-12-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
What, no mention of LLVM/Clang? :-( I have been meaning to try that myself. I have also had great success using TCC (Tiny C Compiler) in the past, which does x86 compilation. Cheers, Jonathan On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Li

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
I try to stay out of these discussions (*cough* flame wars), but here goes... The relationship between CPAN and the Developer is bi-directional, no doubt. As an organization, CPAN can, as it chooses, decide to do what you are suggesting, remove software or boot a Developer. However, I do not beli

Re: Is rt.cpan.org down?

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Yu
> I know it's down, the real question is has anyone heard why and how soon may > it be back? Oddly enough, the web site (downforeveryone...) says that the site is down, however, I can access it. Pinging rt.cpan.org [207.171.7.181] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Reply from 207.171.7.18

Re: Is rt.cpan.org down?

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > My browser just times out.  Is the site down? For future reference, this site is handy for this purpose: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Re: Config.pm and Makefile.PL

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Yu
> Does anyone have experience using elements from Config.pm to set up > Makefile.PL for multi-system installation? This happens with almost every large library-based module. I'm not sure if you are asking about Makefile.PL as in ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Install based distributions. I don't

Permissions Problem (was: Failed: PAUSE indexer report KTHAKORE/SDL-2.524.tar.gz)

2010-12-01 Thread Jonathan Yu
Kartik, As it says in the original mail from the PAUSE indexer, you should be contacting the PAUSE admins about this -- e.g. modu...@perl.org Cheers, Jonathan On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > My co-maint has gone on a vacation to Scotland, which would

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ryan Voots wrote: > sub foo { >  my $foo = shift; >  $foo = "bar"; } > > would not doing a copy for shift like that cause it to act like > > sub foo {$_[0] = "bar"} does? > Well, you know what they say: Try It And See.

Re: Advice wanted re Marpa::XS

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > GCC extensions may not play well with the varying compilers out there. I > think activestate uses a non gcc compiler. But C89 should be sufficient in > terms of portability. I'm no C expert by any means, but the wise folks at #debian-devel

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Dave, I am one of the people who package Perl modules for Debian, and we frequently see all of the above - Module::Install, Module::Build, ExtUtils::MakeMaker and now Dist::Zilla. As ExtUtils::MakeMaker is now considered deprecated, I would avoid using that. However, each of the other toolchai

Re: pause.perl.org: cert expired

2010-05-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Jim, I just checked by logging into PAUSE now, using Windows XP and Firefox 3.5-ish. No warning or problems on my end. I checked the certificate details, and they say: Valid from: 11-05-2010 18:18.36 (11-05-2010 22:18.36 GMT) Until: 10-05-2012 18:18.36 (10-05-2012 22:18.36 GMT) I just took a

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-03-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dana Hudes wrote: > But you can't use CPAN.pm on the Backpan. Can't you? It's just a mirror, so if you point CPAN.pm to the backpan, you should be able to install packages from there (though to get the version you want you'll need to specify the author/package nam

Re: Q about prerequisites

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Craig, I havne't looked into your issue specifically but this looks like it may be related to older CPAN.pm's which did not honour build_requires and configure_requires. Subsequently, you probably have to do some manual checking, though hopefully someone more experienced with doing that sort of th

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

2010-03-22 Thread Jonathan Yu
Speaking also as a Debian packager, and notwithstanding Dominique's comments that we dislike Module::Install, I'd like to provide some additional clarification: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Module::Install raises a lot of problems downstream. I often hear Debian > pa

Re: Excluding files from CPAN diff

2010-02-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
Eric, Thanks for this! I've been looking for a way to diff things where CPAN Diff complains that things are too big for quite some time. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > When the pink unicorn goes away, you might try: > >  http://github.com/gitpan Mr. Schwern is pretty awe

Re: Module::Build question

2010-02-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi there, Thanks for your contribution to CPAN. > So I would like to add some tests to one of my test files, > involving something like `perl -c scripts/my_script`, and > fail if there's an error. There is a module for this - Test::Script - which can be integrated into your test suite. > > My qu

Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)

2010-02-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
2010/2/13 Burak Gürsoy : >> -Original Message- >> From: Hans Dieter Pearcey [mailto:hdp.perl.module-auth...@weftsoar.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:24 PM >> To: module-authors >> Subject: Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position) >> >> Excerpts from Jonatha

Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)

2010-02-10 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, Has anyone else got a message like this to their CPAN Developer e-mail address? I'm curious if this is the beginning of a really bad trend toward CPAN author spamming :/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Jean-Yves Sireau Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:18 AM Subject: Betonmarkets C

Re: satiating cpantesters

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Burak Gürsoy > # on Monday 14 December 2009 12:20: > >>Well... Either die "OS unsupported\n" is an exception (since I get NA >> for that) > > Yeah.  Makes me wonder why fatal m/^Unsupported configuration: .*/ > errors couldn't be made N

Re: Module released - what now?

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hm. This looks like spam, as it's an identical message but sent from a different mailing address. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Ford Prefect Jr. wrote: > Hi! > > While i'm a long term perl user (five, six years or so), i just got to > upload my first module to PAUSE. > > The module is called M

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-11-23 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi! Welcome, and thanks for your contribution to the CPAN. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rene Schickbauer wrote: > Hi! > > While i'm a long term perl user (five, six years or so), i just got to > upload my first module to PAUSE. > > The module is called Maplat and is a framework for intranet

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

2009-11-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
Steffen- As always, I think benchmarks are important. As you've shown below, in your case, the XS implementation certainly is faster. I think it all depends on whether the speed of the system is bound by external factors (like disk speed, speed of a network stream) or your CPU. Certainly I've fou

Re: Why you don't want to use /dev/random for testing

2009-11-11 Thread Jonathan Yu
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? On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:01 PM,   wrote: >> Ma

Re: Why you don't want to use /dev/random for testing

2009-11-11 Thread Jonathan Yu
I should note, I wrote an article on this awhile back. Take it with a grain of salt, as I'm not an expert in the area; I just wrote bindings for the ISAAC algorithm to Perl. http://jawnsy.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/performance-of-mathrandomisaac/ It compares the performance of multiple different PR

Re: Why you don't want to use /dev/random for testing

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Yu
Maybe better advice is to never use /dev/random except when you need it for cryptographic security (ie, generating some random data for keys). If you want to test stuff with random data, use /dev/urandom (a pseudorandom random number generator device, which never runs out of data and can provide r

Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-10-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
I think ExtUtils::CBuilder is useful for detecting the presence of a compiler. It has a "have_compiler" method that tells you whether a compiler is present (by actually trying to compile a C file). For more advanced uses, something like the aforementioned Devel::CheckLib will probably be of great h

Re: Term::Info - takeover

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > I notice that Term::Info was released in 1999, has no documentation, no > testing, only wraps Tput, and is generally not all that useful. > > I'm planning to write a proper terminfo wrapping module anyway, and this > seems an ideal name

Re: What Would you like to see in a CPAN Distro Manager?

2009-09-04 Thread Jonathan Yu
2009/9/4 Burak Gürsoy : >> -Original Message- >> From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:shlo...@iglu.org.il] >> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 8:25 AM >> To: module-authors@perl.org >> Subject: What Would you like to see in a CPAN Distro Manager? > > I think that I don't want one :) (I didn't say don'

Re: gentle nudgings about upgrading your tools

2009-08-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: >> # from David Cantrell >> # on Friday 28 August 2009 04:10: >> I guess maybe.  It still seems arbitrary, and my point was that it is a workaround to the fact that it's currently diff

Scope::Guard and End

2009-08-22 Thread Jonathan Yu
[Cc'ing module-authors in case other CPAN developers or users of these packages are interested.] Hi: I've noticed these two modules (Scope::Guard and End) are similar in their nature, purpose and inner workings. I'm curious if you two knew about the others' module prior to creating their own. I'd

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report KTHAKORE/SDL_Perl-v2.2.1.tar.gz

2009-08-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Kartik: Keep in mind that all modules are tracked separately. So, while you might have rights to teh SDL.pm namespace, the original author needs to give you the co-maintain bit on all of the other ones in the dist. This is what leads to what is called "unauthorized releases" -- your package was

Re: Access to bug queue

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > > Hi people how do I get access to bug queue if I cannot find the contact of > the person who set it up. This is the rt on the cpan module. Access is given to the PAUSE ID of the person that owns the particular module, either on a first-

Re: CPAN Search/BACKPAN Diff Tool

2009-08-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:49:41PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> ... CPAN Search Diff tool ... >> >> I would ideally like to implement such a tool on the entire BACKPAN, > > Why not just take a backpan mirror

CPAN Search/BACKPAN Diff Tool

2009-08-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: I'm not sure where else to send this, so I'm sending it here to get some discussion from other module authors/CPAN users. I package Perl modules for Debian, so I use the CPAN Search Diff Tool a lot to figure out what has changed between releases. However, authors are (rightfully so) cleaning

Re: Getting ready for CPAN

2009-08-02 Thread Jonathan Yu
just the pm files and tarball On 8/2/09, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Jonathan Yu wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Shawn H. Corey >> wrote: >>> Here is a copy of my MANIFEST. Is there anything missing? >>> >>> Build.PL >>> Changes >&g

Re: Getting ready for CPAN

2009-08-02 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi there: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Hi, > > I have a module, Sub::Starter, which I have prepared for CPAN.  I think I > have all the right goodies in the right places.  But I am worried that I > might be missing something important.  And yes, I read the documentation,

Re: Test Failures - XS, "does not match bootstrap parameter" and version objects

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
Martin: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Martin J. Evans wrote: > Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I seek the wisdom of any other module authors that might have come >> across this problem. >> >> Recently, I uploaded a new version of Math::Random::ISAAC::XS

Re: Test Failures - XS, "does not match bootstrap parameter" and version objects

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
e a catch somewhere with older perls, CPAN or something else. > Therefore, I just avoid all the headaches and hassles with the above > scheme. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I seek the wisdom of any other module authors

Test Failures - XS, "does not match bootstrap parameter" and version objects

2009-07-28 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: I seek the wisdom of any other module authors that might have come across this problem. Recently, I uploaded a new version of Math::Random::ISAAC::XS and ran into a *lot* of regressions. I've looked at the diff and I didn't really change all that much, except for removing some things from Rec

Re: Getopt::Auto improvements

2009-06-29 Thread Jonathan Yu
Generally I think the old wisdom is to just assume all input is some sort of string, and to perform any validation you need manually or using other utilities like Scalar::Util's looks_like_number method (which is core anyway). However, it might be convenient to have a way to verify that input is a

Re: Module::Build + documenation woes

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
I have *never* used h2xs to start a module, though I have copied the basic scripts/structure/etc that other packages have (which likely began with h2xs at one point or another)... I prefer doing it on my own by hand, though I guess that's not an option for people new to Perl packaging On Fri, Jun

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
. >      Instead, you just say : >       my $object = Qt::(arg_1, ..., arg_n); >      If you don't need to pass any argument to the constructor, simply say : >       my $object = Qt::; > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
-) > $hello->show(); > etc. > Which I realize is a problem. > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Chris: >> >> Is it Qt4::Application or QApplication (as it was in Qt - ie version 1?) >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Chris: Is it Qt4::Application or QApplication (as it was in Qt - ie version 1?) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Burel wrote: >> And really, what's wrong with Qt4::Application->new()? > > I've been modeling the Qt4 bindings off the Qt3 ones that Ashley and > Germain wrote.  And that's how

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:00:12PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: >> # from Jonathan Yu >> # on Monday 25 May 2009: >> >> >I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it >> > over. >> >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> That's a

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
This may solve both of your dilemmas: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/aliased-0.22/lib/aliased.pm :-) We packaged that for Debian not too long ago. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Hi Chris, > > # from Chris Burel > # on Tuesday 26 May 2009: > >>One thing I thought of doing

Process for Removing a Module from CPAN

2009-05-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it over. I'm working with someone else on perlqt4 bindings for my Google Summer of Code project, and the currently available version of Qt is from 1997 and of little use to anybody. (See: code.google.com/p/perlqt4) We'd like to b

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
It's my understanding that the margin by which storing a hashed password without a salt is better is related to its length. It's harder to calculate/store SHA-512 hashes versus SHA-1, right? I mean, takes a lot more time & space to construct rainbow tables, and thus could be infeasible to generate.

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> Not totally pointless, of course, because it would still require >> regenerating a rainbow table versus downloading one of them already >> available. On the other hand, de

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
mpact performance in a noticeable way, and the security benefits dramatically outweigh the costs. Cheers, Jonathan On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Yu > wrote: >> >> Bill: >> >> To clarify why

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
A few minor points. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009, Bill Ward wrote: > >> 2. Make sure to have a salt value, as it prevents the use of rainbow >>> >>> tables to get a password. So you have the hash and a known salt kept >>> separately (the salt is pla

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
ecessary, however, if you can harden security with just a few extra lines of code, why not? Cheers, Jonathan On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Yu > wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> Well, some things I c

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: Well, some things I can think of are: 1. Use SHA-256 instead of MD5. Even SHA-1 is thought to be possibly weak, and there have been collisions detected against MD5, worse for MD's predecessors like MD4. If not SHA, then there are lots of other great algorithms like WHIRLPOOL that are worth lo

Re: Dual-Build Modules (What to do if both Makefile.PL and Build.PL exist)

2009-05-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
ft is testing the 202+ packages in our control that have both a Makefile.PL and Build.PL to make sure nothing breaks. If we're successful in our testing then I don't see any reason why our build process won't be switched over, particularly given the advice of everyone here. Thanks ag

Re: Opinion on a suitable name for a file inspection module

2009-05-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Mats: I think there is an ELF:: namespace you can consider. Something like, ELF::Extract::Symbols, maybe? Likely it won't have much to do with the Win32 equivalent, even though they are functionally similar, so I wouldn't suggest putting them under a common namespace. Perhaps what you can do (

Re: Module::Build + automatic README / LICENSE

2009-05-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:40 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:07:36PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > >> I was recently pointed in the direction of my kwalitee tests: >>   http://cpants.perl.org/author/PEVANS >> They all fail for not having a README file or a LICENSE.

Dual-Build Modules (What to do if both Makefile.PL and Build.PL exist)

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi wise Perl authors: I've been building some Perl packages for Debian. I've noticed in the course of this that dh-make-perl (our preferred script for transforming Perl distributions into Debian packages) prefers Makefile.PL over Build.PL. One problem this has caused is that a Makefile is created

Re: On 'unpack()' - How much did I eat?

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
If a Perl patch can be made available for this purpose, then why not an XS/C module? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:24:10AM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: >> I find lately I've been doing a lot of binary protocol work, taking >> messages that

Re: Naming advice for retry manager module

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: What about http://search.cpan.org/~dlo/Proc-BackOff-0.02/lib/Proc/BackOff.pm Proc::BackOff. It seems to implement a function similar to TCP packet retry backoff... The idea is that for every failure you wait X time before the next request; the next time, you wait 2X. etc. But there is also a

Re: "a lot of silliness" about Module::Build

2009-04-10 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Burak: 2009/4/10 Burak Gürsoy : >> -Original Message- >> From: Paul LeoNerd Evans [mailto:leon...@leonerd.org.uk] >> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:17 PM >> To: Ovid >> Cc: module-authors@perl.org >> Subject: Re: "a lot of silliness" about Module::Build >> >> I find this too. Of all my

Re: Module name suggestions? - automatic per-OS subclass

2009-03-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Paul: This sounds like a great idea. However, I would recommend that when you do write your module, you include some way of determining which version is currently in use. For example, it's difficult to detect which version of File::Spec is in use, because it's set up so that it does @ISA = ('F

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Eric- On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Golden > # on Thursday 19 March 2009 11:32: > I will look into this, but the problem with CC licenses is that they are not "Perl-approved" - that is, they do not have fields in Module::Build's license field >

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Jonathan On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Yu 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 L

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
probably safer, though. Jonathan On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thursday 19 March 2009 18:23:23 Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi Shlomi, >> >> I've looked into the CC0 license that Scott mentioned, and it looks >> promising. >> >>

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Good point David. Anyway, for the rest of the list, I've come up with the following text; hopefully it is legally possible: Copyleft (C) 2009 by Jonathan Yu . All rights reversed. ABSTRACT I, the copyright holder of this package, hereby release the entire contents therein into the p

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
d Build.PL's license part? Jonathan On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Jonathan! > > On Thursday 19 March 2009 17:46:39 Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I'm working on a module that will be released into the Public Domain. >> It

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Scott: Posting this back to the list. Hope you don't mind; I think the others on this list could benefit from your reply. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Elcomb wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I'm working on

Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
public.html) Thanks in advance for your guidance :-) Cheers, Jonathan Yu (PAUSE: FREQUENCY)

Re: Net::Vimeo::API - namespace question

2009-03-10 Thread Jonathan Yu
Chris: I'm not sure of the best answer here, though I do know that top-level namespaces (like Vimeo::API) are generally frowned upon. A cursory search of "API" turns up: - WWW::Facebook::API - WWW::Bebo::API As the first two results. On the other hand, some people have used the namespace WebSer

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
Jonathan: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > * On Tue, Mar 03 2009, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Choosing array-based parameterization instead of hashes seems to be a >> bad idea to me, because you could potentially end up with lots of >> cases of sparse a

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Yu
ere you can quickly hack things together to get the job done, and refine the code if and when it becomes necessary to do so. To that end, there are some nice modules to test code coverage, profiling, memory leaks, etc. Cheers, Jonathan Yu On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:41 AM, David Cantrell wrote:

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2009-02-14 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: What about the other modules in "See Also" of that module? HTML::Sanitizer, HTML::Scrubber, HTML::StripScripts, HTML::Parser Cheers, Jonathan On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > I sent mail to the author of HTML::Detoxifier but it bounced. Does anyone > here have any sugg

Re: DBD::SQLite Module Abandoned?

2009-02-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
onathan On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I write because one of the modules I use in one of my distributions, >> DBD::SQLite, seems to be abandoned by its maintainer. I am wonde

DBD::SQLite Module Abandoned?

2009-02-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi all: I write because one of the modules I use in one of my distributions, DBD::SQLite, seems to be abandoned by its maintainer. I am wondering what should be done in such a case, because the backlog of requests in the RT is getting pretty big, and there are some outstanding patches in the downs

Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-11 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Keith: I have to say, I am pleased that people are working on enriching CPAN's offerings. Currently it does lack Barcode handling support, from what I can tell. I would be totally behind a project that would bring everything under a consistent Barcode:: interface - that is, the processing/inpu

Re: require modules for make test

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi there: I'm not sure if this will help you, but I use build_requires (and Module::Build) - it seems to do the trick for me. For the author tests, I put them in 'recommended'. It's worth noting that the team that packages Perl modules for Debian moves all requirements to basically "build_require

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
27;t all that well maintained, and the bug has been outstanding in the Request Tracker for some time now. Cheers, Jonathan On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Ben Morrow wrote: > > Quoth jonathan.i...@gmail.com ("Jonathan Yu"): >> All: >> >> I like the idea of using SQLi

Re: Document::Aggregate

2009-01-15 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi: To transform multiple documents to a single document, wouldn't the easiest method be putting it in a .zip or tarball? Anyway, I looked into doing something like this, and personally am leaning toward XML if doing this in the future. I think it would be best if you simply translate documents

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-14 Thread Jonathan Yu
to put things in the Shared directory (I believe it's M::I::Shared) Any thoughts on Module::Build and sharedir files? Cheers! Jonathan On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: > > Quoth da...@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell): >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:41:22PM -0500

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-10 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Nadim: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, nadim khemir wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2009 21.15.07 Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I am looking into writing a module that will look up information on a >> Video file's Four Character Code (FourCC) and disp

Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
rant that - it should fit mostly in memory). Aside from searching for the phase "FourCC" using the CPAN search engine, I haven't really done a whole lot of searching, and so I don't know if there is/are [a] package(s) that handle this type of thing. Cheers, Jonatha

Re: Devel::NoGlobalSig - croak when a global %SIG is installed

2009-01-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
Eric: Just a thought - if there was a more general module, you could still have it default to detecting global %SIG changes. It might be beneficial to have similar reminders for other modules that shouldn't be messed with, like changes to the $ENV{PATH}. But I'm no expert in any of this. I just t