In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Lester
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:46:38AM -0500, Ken Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Personally I still don't think that's the best place for it. Why make
> > all the people who *download* your module check something tha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Nicol
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gotta put the checks in PAUSE so it rejects boilerplate-havin modules
> -- anything
> less won't work
Absoultely not. Just because someone leaves in some boilerplate
doesn't mean that we should stop them from sharing the cod
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken
Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
>
> > RJBS and I are going to put some tests into Module::Starter to check
> > for
> > boilerplate. Watch for it tomorrow, maybe tonight.
> Did people not like the idea of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. Pagaltzis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * _brian_d_foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-22 20:00]:
> Sure, but you and brian arenât the kind of people whoâd need h2xs
> or module-starter or the like anyway. I find it kind of str
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. Pagaltzis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * _brian_d_foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-20 23:15]:
> > When you want to add something (like a standard test file), you
> > just add it to the sample dist. When you want to change some
&g
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rothenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm rather annoyed by the spate of CPAN uploads which have defaults from
> h2xs or Module::Install that are not edited, things like "Perl extension
> for blah blah blah" or "A. U. Thor". In other words, stupid mistak
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A. Pagaltzis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Austin Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-27 21:50]:
> > Is it a content management system that is built on perl 6, or
> > is it a system for managing perl 6 content? The latter would
> > imply cpan, the former something
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James E Keenan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:>
> >
> > The existing maintainer needs to log into PAUSE, then select
> > "Change Permiss
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy W. Sims
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probe::OS - Gather info on the operating system
> Probe::Libs
> Probe::Progs
> Probe::FileSys - maybe incorporate ideas Schwern posted on p5p recently,
Perhaps we can put this under a namespace like Config:: ?
I imagi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Johan Vromans wrote:
> >>But from what I hear, I'm on my own --
> > Not completely.
> > The cpancd[1] package has the functionality in it to find out the latest
> > version of a series of versio
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce J Keeler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:06 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > I can't think of a future-proof way of avoiding IDs you allocate conflicting
> > with PAUSE, unless you and Andreas collaborate
>
> CPAN IDs are always upper
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dariush Pietrzak
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> > Bad name. That should be Net::FTP::Lite.
> My code has nothing to do with Net::FTP, it's not a subclass or
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott W Gifford
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not just leave it uncompressed, and let the compression of the
> whole package into Geo-PostalCode-US-0.1.tar.gz take care of
> compressing it?
I recommend not doing that. I had a lot of problems distributing
the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dana Hudes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Scott W Gifford wrote:
>
> > A private emailer wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Even better isn't all this on a USPS server? Whatever tool you use
> > > to grab their server database, include it and do tha
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott W
Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working with T.J. Mather on updating Geo::PostalCode. One of the
> things we're looking at is how to manage
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graciliano M. P.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is not the 1st time that I receive a FAIL report from CPAN telling that is
> not possible to find module X at @INC, saying to add the PREREQ_PM at
> MakeFile.PL.
>
> Well, I always put the PREREQ_PM at MakeFile.PL. So,
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Quinlan
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> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:35, _brian_d_foy wrote:
> > You c
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Quinlan
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> My impulse is to regularly update the modules on CPAN, at least until we
> get a semi-functional beta in place. But
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rothenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have written some prototype Perl code that when given a set of bus routes
> will give a list of bus times f
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smylers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Dolan writes:
>
> > Assuming it is based on DBI at its core, your module would fit better
> > in the DBI extension area. I think DBIx::Backup::MySQL would be good,
> > as it would leave room for expansions to databases ot
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David
Coppit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to convince cpan-tester's automated testing
> to:
> - Not test unless required modules are installed. (Of *course* it fails if
>you don't have a required module installed.)
it would be ni
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Wilhelm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got several modules under the CAD::* namespace, which I chose
> because there was an existing module CAD::Pro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rothenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/25/2004 2:26 AM brian d foy wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> >> I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which
> >> just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rothenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information
> about a particular book.
have you thought about working with Ed Summers to put that into
Business::ISBN ?
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rothenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am working on a module that when given a CPAN distribution, it will
> determine what modules that distribution depends on by scanning the META.yml
> file or if that one is not present, the Makefile.PL file.
This sh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Stosberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One benefit I see of a extra "forges" like rubyforge is
> decentralization. Right now open source has a huge dependency on
> SourceForge.
Indeed. SourceForge's services and uptimes have been slowly
degrading, and lately
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Stosberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:17:50PM -0400, _brian_d_foy wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael A Nachbaur
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd rather see
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael A Nachbaur
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The thing is, these are free-standing applications, and for the most part
> aren't developer tools. So, I was thinking an App:: namespace would work
> well, (e.g.. App::WWW::NachoMusic, etc).
I'd rather see top-lev
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sherzod Ruzmetov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Instead of removing any modules, edit the docs of the library stating the
> modules are obsolete, unfinished, broken etc. If there are any other modules
> that you know of to be used as an alternative, list them, but kee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim
Harsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I forgot to include Makefile.PL in my distribution. Would prefer to just
> replace the offending upload, rather than up the version number and start
> again. Would that be the best way?
you can't upload a file of the same n
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Austin Schutz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be nice if there were some way to take over management of
> the module from the current owner. If they aren't responsive, there ought
> to be some mechanism for doing it without their input.
if you need to take o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James E Keenan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that we've had a lot of discussion on this list about taking over
> maintenance of apparently abandoned modules ...
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