Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-27 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Sébastien Aperghis- Tramoni wrote: In terms of Perl itself, apart from the reference syntax, the thing that really annoyed me recently was the lack of advanced debug tools, for example to find memory leaks. None of the

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-25 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
e to find memory leaks. None of the tools I found or was pointed to worked in my case. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: CPAN Index Version Problem with Sys-Syslog-0.26.tar.gz

2008-06-17 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:42:36 +0200, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Andreas, are you able to fix it or do you prefer me to upload a fixed release, with a new version? Fixing this manually was a breeze, so I did it. The new index f

Re: CPAN Index Version Problem with Sys-Syslog-0.26.tar.gz

2008-06-17 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ed release, with a new version? -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: shipping extra files in a dist?

2008-04-25 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
=> { > 'data/foo.data' => '$(INST_LIB)/Foo/Bar/foo.data', > ... > }, > - anything else? You can also define a MY::postamble() for this task: » http://use.perl.org/~Maddingue/journal/34682 Of course, Michael Schwern doesn't like such extensions for obvious reasons ;-) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
better :) I haven't actually looked at the code yet though (or talked to Mr Kobes). It is available on the CPAN: » http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/CPAN-Search-Lite -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-02-10 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:37 +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: While checking the reports of my modules, I see from time to time FAIL reports that weren't sent to me by mail. Some of these reports were even useful to me. Yo

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-31 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
re even useful to me. Ok, I should setup a Plagger thingy to read the feeds from cpantesters, filter my modules, find and send the new FAIL reports, but being pushed the reports by mail is just so much easier.. And aren't we using a language that promote laziness ;-) -- Sébastien Ap

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C lib.so ?

2007-12-11 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
brian d foy wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO, "Lib" doesn't carry as much information as "Raw" or even "API", given the already existing modules. "Raw" and "API&q

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C lib.so ?

2007-12-10 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
API", given the already existing modules. So possible namespaces are: Cache::Raw::Memcached or CacheAPI::Memcached. Or, if you don't want to be related to the Cache:: namespace, Memcached::Raw or Memcached::API. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C lib.so ?

2007-12-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
. As a sysadmin, I prefer to install the external libs by myself, or in case of packaging, make sure the needed libs are indicated as prerequisites. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
t will come with a script to bundle itself in an inc/ directory. ExtUtils::FindFunctions and ExtUtils::FindLibrary do this as well with their included commands. The code is simple but you can copy it if you want. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: relative.pm vs import.pm

2007-10-11 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-11 12:10]: > > But this will load *all* the modules below the current one, > > which is not the same thing as loading a set of selected > > modules. Imagine doing this with Plagger ;) > &

Re: relative.pm vs import.pm

2007-10-11 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Johan Vromans wrote: > Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > unless I read it wrong, it doesn't provide the feature relative.pm > > was written for in the first place, that is loading modules using > > names relative to the current one.

Re: relative.pm vs import.pm

2007-10-10 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
base::ball (except it was written long before). Also, unless I read it wrong, it doesn't provide the feature relative.pm was written for in the first place, that is loading modules using names relative to the current one. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: S/SA/SAPER/relative-0.02.tar.gz (feature request)

2007-10-09 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Ovid wrote: > --- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > >> use relative; > > >> my $Customer = import relative qw(Report Customer); > > > > > > This changes the require() on Fo

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-09 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Anyway, this is an unchecked eval, and always-on. > ># import the symbols from the loaded module into the caller module >eval qq{ package $caller; $module->import }; Indeed. Thanks for spotting this. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: S/SA/SAPER/relative-0.02.tar.gz (feature request)

2007-10-09 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni # on Monday 08 October 2007 16:02: use relative; my $Customer = import relative qw(Report Customer); This changes the require() on Foo::Report and Foo::Customer to run- time though, right? Right, but I'd say tha

Re: S/SA/SAPER/relative-0.02.tar.gz (feature request)

2007-10-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ustomer->new($id); That is, import returns the full names of the successfully loaded modules in list context, or the last one in scalar context. Is this sufficient or did I misunderstand you? -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Johan Vromans wrote: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: use relative to_self => qw(Create Publish); # loads BigApp::Report::Create, BigApp::Report::Publish It is probably too late now, but despite the fact that being able to load multiple modul

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
es). pkg::relative would seem like an incorrect name because it carries a semantic you can't achieve: in Perl, you don't load packages but modules, which happen to define (or not) a package of the same name. So, IMO, there's no other semantic to differentiate from when used as a C arg

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
import relative -to => These => qw(Others Modules); in order to avoid clashing with anybody wanting to call their module to.pm :) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Fwd: CPAN Upload: S/SA/SAPER/relative-0.02.tar.gz

2007-10-07 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
art Request entered by: SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) Request entered on: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:57:27 GMT Request completed: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:58:44 GMT -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Dr.Ruud wrote: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni schreef: package BigApp::Report; These would also be nice: package BigApp::__FROMFILE__; package BigApp::__FROMFILE__($RCSfile); Not sure how this is supposed to work, but I think this is beyond the aim of relative.pm -- Sébastien

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-06 20:30]: As a side note, using find(1) on a mini-CPAN and Google CodeSearch, I only found 3 modules named "tp.pm": Don’t forget the darkPAN though. On a side note, if some people here know Perl

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
for example. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ks a good idea. It should also DTRT so my $Publish = import qw(Publish); works as one expects. The only case left is: my $What = import qw(One Two Three); It could return the last one in order to mimic the comma operator. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
; : - CGI::FormMagick::L10N::to (in MITEL/CGI-FormMagick-0.89.tar.gz) - DateTime::Locale::to (in DROLSKY/DateTime-Locale-0.35.tar.gz) - Number::Tolerant::Type::to (in RJBS/Number-Tolerant-1.550.tar.gz) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Fwd: CPAN Upload: S/SA/SAPER/relative-0.01.tar.gz

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
d on your part Request entered by: SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) Request entered on: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:38:50 GMT Request completed: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:39:45 GMT Thanks, -- paused, v929 -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
I'll use it immediately when you release it, thanks. Heh, thanks. I'll announce here when the module is available. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
lso do use relative [to => 'My::Big::Namespace'] => qw( This That Munger::Fast Munger::Precise ); It can easily do that. The problem is more the name. In this case, "use relative to ..." works well. But in y original example, "use subclass" works better.

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Hello Aristotle, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Hi Sébastien, * Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-06 03:05]: package BigApp::Report; use relative to_parent => qw(Utils); # loads BigApp::Utils use relative to_self => qw(Cr

RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-05 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ibling modules (in the same hierarchy), and would also simplify refactoring and renaming. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: How to recognize modules that needs compilation?

2007-05-14 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
h the names of required libs. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: In which linux distribution is my module available

2007-05-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ors because they have to specifically remove it from the main Perl package. And even though several modules from 5.8 have been dual-lifed and have more recent versions on the CPAN, they prefer to keep the versions included with the Perl distribution. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Clos

Re: recent search.cpan changes?

2007-05-05 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
been made available. OTOH, you can get the sources of cpan.uwinnipeg.ca from http:// cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/CPAN-Search-Lite -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Module Proposal: Parse::Reversible

2007-04-24 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
should be in the URI:: namespace. And couldn't the bidirectional relation you want to create be seen like a mapping? Hence URI::Mapper or something similar? -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: echo die > Makefile.PL

2007-04-17 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
talled, why not simply create a traditional Makefile.PL and add Module::Build as a prerequisite? That way your module can be installed with ExtUtils::MakeMaker yet Module::Build also gets installed for the next time. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Best practices for dual-lifing a core module?

2007-03-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
o remove the parts that aren't needed for core, then send it to P5P. That is, unless Steve Peters plays Road-Runner and updates blead with the new files before I even have the chance to send the patch ;-) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Ken Williams wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Jonathan Rockway wrote: Why don't y'all just use Module::Install? It handles build_requires, AND you can bundle modules with your dist, in case dependencies worry you. Problems solved. OT

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
old Perl. Some people may care about this and thus not use M::I, others may not. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: supporting older perls

2007-02-25 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
our statement using multiple "use constant" calls. Otherwise, you can simply add a "require 5.008" in your Makefile.PL in order to indicate that your module needs Perl 5.8. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
r the curious, to see the bile you have to take a look at the module's source. It's not in the docs. I would just consider this distribution as spam, and treat it as is. (Usually, I simply punch the key.) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: James Freeman's other modules

2007-01-12 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
AFAICT, he is. But asking your question at [EMAIL PROTECTED]> is probably the best thing :-) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Module::Build and the Test Harness Report in the CPAN Testers

2007-01-12 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ticket CPAN-RT#9793 » http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9793 -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Benefits of Test::Exception

2006-12-31 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
elief, "the set of core Perl modules" is a moving target. Use Module::CoreList and its command corelist(1) to know which module is core and since when. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Question: How can one get a module's rt.cpan.org traffic?

2006-10-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
%3D%20'DISTNAME'%20AND%20 (%20Status%20%3D%20'new'%20OR%20Status%20%3D%20'open'%20OR%20Status% 20%3D%20'stalled'%20) (replace DISTNAME with the distribution name) -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Preventing PAUSE from indexing a module?

2006-10-17 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
re? Note that a simple way to prevent PAUSE from indexing a package inside a module is by writing it: package # hide from PAUSE DB; -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ive the co-maintenance, but because nobody wants to deal with such unfun work. Creating a web site which shows the modules in dire need of maintenance is a good thing, but the next question is: how many people here will then accept to maintain such modules? (History has shown that this number i

Re: Fwd: Indexing for AI-Prolog-0.735_01?

2006-08-04 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
exes modules that follow some precise rules, one of them being that the version number mustn't indicate a development version. Search CPAN however indexes nearly every uploaded distribution. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Dependency trees

2006-07-21 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ehind CPANTS, maybe the Module::Dependency that Tim Bunce adverstised here a few days ago. Probably others that I forgot. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: This Week on perl5-porters - (12-18 June 2006)

2006-06-23 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
branching. > Not suitable at all as a replacement for goto -- if you want to branch, > use goto. But may be useful for setting checkpoints/breakpoints with a > minimum of surgical insult. > > [...] > > So.. shall I put this on CPAN? OTOH, there's already Audrey Tang's

Re: Naming advice for a templating module

2006-02-26 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
all times as well. Maybe I miss something, but did you look at AxKit? http://www.axkit.org/ I've never used it but I've always heard about it as "*the* Perl-XML web framework". Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ] Close

Re: Linking to a POD document in POD

2005-11-18 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
ig and Graham Barr confirmed me that this is the way the indexer works: the .pm files must contain a corresponding =head1 NAME, otherwise it is added in the documentation section. You can find more information about this in this thread: http://xrl.us/ihei [groups.google.com] -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Linking to a POD document in POD

2005-11-18 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
le, although it uses many CPAN modules itself. As noted by Graham Barr on the Perl NOC blog, the site may migrate its full text search engine from WAIT to Swish-e: http://log.perl.org/cpansearch/ -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Name advice for a new module

2005-10-05 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
to follow Gisle Aas hidden module Perl::API? It it clear enough or does anybody have another suggestion? [1] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html#ENVIRONMENT [2] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html#Deferred-Signals-(Safe-Signals) Thanks in advance -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: RFC - "Test::Stupid" module

2005-08-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
your way using the module-starter --plugin option. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Regexp code feature

2005-07-21 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
110100(?:01101110100011(?{'5'})|0100011010(?{'4'}|10 11010011001011100110101100(?{'1'}))"; I may be wrong, but this looks similar to what Regexp::Assemble does, or that you could use it to ease your task. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-

Re: CPAN testers emails

2005-07-01 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
group/perl.cpan.testers/218046 Even more stupid than the one you got, but [apparently] generated by a human. Nope. This one was generated by CPANPLUS v0.054 which had this very bug (FAIL reports didn't include the details). Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- --

Re: How to force tests to issue "NA" reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
bility of p0f. If it's not present, just skip the tests that require it. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Should I keep META.yml under Version Control?

2005-03-28 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
make manifest Of course, `make manifest` *assumes* a bunch of not be accurate.. I "a bunch of stuff that might not" This is what MANIFEST.SKIP is for. Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ] Close the world, txEn eht nepO

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Selon Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > So if you are a module author but your module does not have its > own mailing list or web forum yet, you can make use of CPAN::Forum > Let your users know that your module can be discussed at > >http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/Distro-Name > > and th

Re: Including a 480K data file with a module

2005-01-06 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
-CCDICT, Encode) are between 2 and 4 MB. My 2 eurocents. Regards, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ] Close the world, txEn eht nepO

Re: CPAN Testers and PREREQ_PM doesn't work very well!!!!!!

2004-12-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
0_04. What is missing now is people using/testing CPANPLUS 0.50_xx to help Jos find and crush bugs. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

Re: Taking over maintenance of PDF.pm

2004-12-22 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
a look at PDF::API2? It is more recent and still actively maintained. <http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDF-API2/> -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

No response from the author of Net::Rendezvous

2004-11-24 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
lus I'd like to patch other parts of Net::Rendezvous that generates too many warnings. George Chlipala's email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The RT ticket: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7940 Thanks in advance Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://

Re: how to add the license field to META.yml ?

2004-06-15 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Selon Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wonder how could I add the license field to META.yml if > I am still using ExtUtils-MakeMaker ? > > My guess is that I cannot as even this distibution > does not have it: > http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ > > I pointer would be app

Re: Module name

2003-02-28 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 17:29 Europe/Paris, Arthur Corliss wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: I'd like to submit the module Data::Config, which use is to read generic configuration files. The syntax can be completely changed to fit any and all

Re: Module name

2003-02-28 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
fig as a subclass or a subpart of another existing module, so I will release it on its own, probably under the name Config::Natural unless somebody has a better idea. Anyway, thanks for your help. Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ]

Module name

2003-02-27 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
our suggestions. Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni -- - --- -- - -- - --- -- - --- -- - --[ http://maddingue.org ]