James E Keenan wrote:
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM"
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Just as an FYI, I got a fail on Win Strawberry5.20.2 just recently.
Package that got the error hasn't failed on Windows
since I got it working on 5.14.
I tried asking on the strawberry list, but they didn't se
Reini Urban wrote:
Linda,
You really need to ask on modu...@perl.org
I asked here first for a reality check. I got it and found it had to do
with the certs being relocated to some "new and improved" standard
location and not all the http utils know what is going on...
I noted that it didn
Seems the upload service is broken (at least that's what a 503 means).
How does one upload when the service is broken or is there a backup?
On 12/8/2013 7:34 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
Is something up with the upload service?
Tried to upload an update and got:
cpan-upload P-1.1.17.tar.gz
On 2013-11-13 20:38, David Mertens wrote:
I second Brian's opinion. I would offer also Types::Core as a
potential name for the module.
As for the ref checking, what if I pass a plain scalar? In that case,
I seem to recall that ref($plain_scalar) will be undef, in which case
comparing it to a
On 2013-11-13 07:39, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 wrote:
Judging by your latest CPAN release, you very much
would benefit from feedback.
I'm sorry, I'm a perfectionist. If I see something wrong, I don't
necessarily
hide things like most people. The quality of P hasn't been a major
problem.
On 2013-11-13 10:13, Karen Etheridge wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 08:58:41AM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
It's not meant to be fancy -- just simple and convenient.
Simple and convenient for you perhaps, but that doesn't merit an upload to the
CPAN where code is expected to be usable
On 2013-11-13 07:55, David Cantrell wrote:
I wouldn't. I don't see the need for such a module.
Oh *good* sigmonster!
Why are you being deliberately antagonist.
I was told such behavior wasn't welcome here.
Was I told incorrectly?
On 2013-11-13 07:30, David Cantrell wrote:
Ah-- NetIcal1.11 doesn't have it.. but if I try
Types by itself, it downloads Netical 1.15
The indexing system is broken, IMO...
I see Types:
cp lib/Net/ICal/Parser.pm blib/lib/Net/ICal/Parser.pm
cp lib/Net/ICal/Makefile blib/lib/Net/ICal/Makefil
Seems the index claims it is present, but you can't install it because
it isn't
in the distribution.
On 2013-11-13 07:14, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
I got an error:
Dist E/EB/EBUSBOOM/Net-ICal-0.11.tar.gz, current version undef has
been uploaded by EBUSBOOM. Please contact EBUSBOOM or choose a
di
On 2013-11-12 23:54, Aldo Calpini wrote:
Ingy is the original author of the first version of Inline:
http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/
Sisyphus is the current maintainer.
Ingy already has "first come" since 2002...
Um... but Sisyphus says it's not a real module -- it is never in
On 11/7/2013 1:18 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Linda W <mailto:perl-didd...@tlinx.org>> wrote:
I am trying to specify a pre-req that needs to be present for
my module to work.
I have it under the PREREQ_PM section next in my Makefile.PL
I am trying to specify a pre-req that needs to be present for
my module to work.
I have it under the PREREQ_PM section next in my Makefile.PL
as well as under the BUILD_REQUIRES section.
I'm not sure I specified the version correctly -- I note that
Test::Simple, has a floating point version,
John M. Gamble wrote:
> On Sat, March 16, 2013 7:43 am, Linda W wrote:
>
>> Different Q:
>>
>> Is there "easy" way to have the version number in the pod be taken from
>> it's
>> definition in the code rather than having it be static text t
Aldo Calpini wrote:
> what you are looking for are called Verbatim Paragraphs (cfr. perldoc
> perlpod).
>
> for example, this:
>
>
> is totally unnecessary (and ineffective). could be simply written as:
> ...
>
> also: you seem to have SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION mixed up. please, look at
> s
Is this a limitation or a unfixed bug?
I noticed the html version on cpan of my module looked poopy... it was
all broken funny and things that lined up on a terminal didn't (C).
But I also noticed non-breaking spaces ignored...?
Aldo Calpini wrote:
>
> if by "test harness" you mean prove, then you need to add the -b flag
> (after a successfull "make" or "./Build"), as in:
>
> prove -b t/*
---
I found the above to be very useful in testing after
I read it's manpage. Thanks! Got the twisted tests
to run as well ;-
Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Linda W wrote:
>
>> I developed a few tests for a module I was trying to get on to CPAN.
>>
>
> Do you have this code in a public version control system? (I mean Git,
> Subversion,
Aldo Calpini wrote:
> I'm wondering how you are including the module in your test... should be
> just a plain:
>
> use My::Module;
My module had it's own tests built-in to it before I tried to put it
on CPAN.
So I'm trying to use it's built-in modules.
I.e. if you make the module runn
Aldo Calpini wrote:
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test <-- here
>
This is the one I was using...
But I was in the 't' dir, and my test tried to access
the module using ../lib/module.pm
I'm not sure, but will I a blib dir if it is a Perl-only distribution?
I developed a few tests for a module I was trying to get on to CPAN.
They worked when I ran them in the 't' directory.
But under the test harness, they failed... it couldn't find
the module files.
The test does a chmod +x on the module and runs it as a program.
That produced the test output I lo
Please define "not acceptable"... as according to this,
http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/,
project page, it is acceptable for Perl (5.12.0 and later) as well as
the Strawberry Perl Project.
So who is it not acceptable for? ;-)
FWIW... having tried strawberry, I wasn't impressed upon trying
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 04:55:23PM -0800, Linda W wrote:
I have tried to get a hold of icc, you had to be a famous developer
or pay money -- I wanted to try it because it was said to do a much
better job of optimizing than the gnu compiler...
I was
Started this, this morning before any of 'today's emails...just never
finished it..
Seems pertinent with the talk of alternate packages that only work with
alternate
compilers -- especially those that are limited in the platforms they
support (Gnu is on
Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris, Irix, et
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote:
David Cantrell joked:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote:
[[ What compiler on unix-- where perl was born
" liar liar pants on fire "
That's not
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Linda W wrote:
The assertion was that such a thing does not. It is is incumbent
upon you, who want to refute that
assertion to provide at least 1 example to disprove the general
assertion. Claiming it is a research
David Cantrell joked:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote:
Dana Hudes wrote:
BTW not everyone uses gcc.
[[ What compiler on unix-- where perl was born, that is as freely available
as perl and the modules on cpan, itself would you suggest I use
Now see, here's an example, of my /usual/ writing style, when I take the
time to write things carefully, rather writing in a casual style:.. I said:
"I, too often confuse linux with Unix, as it's seems the only
largely supported and most freely available but I know it's not
the ent
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Linda W wrote:
Dana Hudes wrote:
BTW not everyone uses gcc.
What compiler on linux -- where perl was born, would you suggest?
Perl 5 was developed on SunOS.
I don't know what platform Perl
Dana Hudes wrote:
I sympathize with the compiler errors. But its not acceptable to have someone
other than the maintainer decide to remove a contribution from CPAN
Who ever said anything about removing it?
Just move it out of the main index into an 'archival' section where
it
dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
I've mostly ignored all this but I will step in briefly.
I am the author of a few modules on CPAN. None of them are major. The
dependency of one on another module which has been broken for years means
that I get frequent e-mail that it fails its tests. There's nothing wro
; On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:09:35AM -0800, Linda W wrote:
>>if we want CPAN to be able to be relied upon.. it's can't have
>> unaddressed bugs for months (let alone a year or more)...
>
> I promise to address bug reports quickly if you make them more important
> tha
Jonathan Yu wrote:
> 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
David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:09:35AM -0800, Linda W wrote:
Don't have to touch their code,... but if we want CPAN to be able to
be relied upon.. it's can't have unaddressed bugs for months (let alone a
year or more)...
I promise to address bug reports
Steffen Mueller wrote:
On 11/21/2011 09:58 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Maybe instead of just this Covenant, we have a number of Ownership /
Maintenance statements, one of which is the one I proposed, but
another of which would something along the lines of:
If you put something on CPAN and don
I was adding a bug to Perl::Tidy, and noticed another bug in the same
queue that was no longer a bug (i.e. had been fixed), yet it wasn't
marked as such (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31741).
I wanted to mark it closed, but got permission denied -- so tried to
'claim' the bug (set ow
Gabor Szabo wrote:
Hi Linda,
I think even if not in this form but similar ideas have been raised
and qucikly rejected using various explanations.
I for one quite agree with your description of the problem so let's think
about a solution that might be accepted or at least that can be implemented
I was looking to do some work with RPM's in perl.
The CPAN modules for dealing with RPMs are in a bit of a mess.
I'm wondering if there shouldn't be a way of 'voting a module off the
island (CPAN)' if it outdated and no longer supported.
The more outdated, broken and unsupported modules there a
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).
It was last released over 3 years ago.
The last time the author touched any of his modules was about
three years ago.
There Non of
Eric Wilhelm wrote:
# from Ken Williams
# on Monday 29 May 2006 05:50 pm:
=for mansection won't work
Because this is a paragraph. It gets displayed by standard pod
tools.
I was thinking "=for mansection 5" or similar, which should indeed
work according to the docs in `perldoc pe
Ken Williams wrote:
Hi Linda,
A couple comments:
2) It might be better to use an existing directive like "=for
mansection" rather than creating a new top-level directive.
---
That seems reasonable. Wasn't familiar with the "=for" directive.
3) I'd rather see semantic values rath
In order to provide for a better integration of Perl documentation into
man page sections, I would like to propose adding a "=mansec" POD
directive and some vague attempt at appropriate section number assignment.
In the _absence_ of a specified section, I would like to propose using
section "7" (
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
It's probably related to Term::ReadLine::Gnu (which is not part of the
perl core.) I don't know much about your setup, but this is the module
which is linked against libreadline. Maybe the SuSE packages miss some
dependencies, or something.
---
I don't re
Randy Kobes wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ken Williams wrote:
On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Linda W wrote:
These don't look like 'normal' install for running install withing cpan:
cpan> install WWW/RobotRules
[ .. ]
I'm not sure CPAN.pm understands how to "insta
cpan> test Term::ReadLine::Gnu
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /share/CPAN/Metadata
Database was generated on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:12:58 GMT
Running test for module Term::ReadLine::Gnu
Running make for H/HA/HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.15.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zl
When I start cpan, it complains about valid entries in my
.inputrc -- that are valid for BASH's use/version of readline:
# cpan
Undefined value assigned to typeglob at (eval 17) line 15, line 6.
Warning [/home/user/.inputrc line 6]:
Invalid variable `expand-tilda'
Undefined value assigned to ty
These don't look like 'normal' install for running install withing cpan:
cpan> install WWW/RobotRules
Running make for W/WW/WWW/RobotRules
Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/W/WW/WWW/RobotRules
Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
http://ww
Ken Williams wrote:
On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Linda W wrote:
I'm not sure what perl does with invalid
character data in a variable when you try to manipulate
it by appending it to another value.
There's no such thing as invalid character data in Perl strings. Perl
strings c
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Linda W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-02 01:20]:
As it is, TieRegistry certainly seems to have problems
reliably accessing values under keynames where the keynames
are not ascii strings. [...] something in the registry export
feature doesn't quite translate the k
t something
in the registry export feature doesn't quite translate
the keynames the same under UCS-16 v. UTF-8. :-(
Linda
Linda W wrote:
I decided to temporarily give up on the cygwin version of
TieRegistry just to make some progress.
I decided to temporarily give up on the cygwin version of
TieRegistry just to make some progress.
Very simplistic perl routine, that I can hard code
a starting key into the top of my tree,
then it goes through a fairly lame/brute-force
enumeration of all Members under the key -- recursing on
keynam
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Linda W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-21 03:32]:
Is there any good reason why I would need to keep versions
older than about a year or two around?
You don't. Nothing deleted dies anyway; it just goes to the
afterlife at BackPAN.
In order to facilitate the CP
Sam Vilain wrote:
Note that you need to set "ftp_firewall" if you have a true FTP
firewall, or more likely if you're setting something like
ftp_proxy=http://proxy:3128/
---
Yep.
Net::FTP can't do that itself, but LWP should DTRT
once it's installed.
===
Yeah, was having trouble getting LW
I was looking through my CPAN directory and noticed that I
have older versions for various CPAN functions going back
to 1999.
Is there any good reason why I would need to keep versions older
than about a year or two around? I can't, for example, see
why I would want to keep around versions 1.17-
Nevermind this Q. Outdated cpan config params...;-/
Linda W wrote:
I don't know if these errors are specific to cygwin,
but when I build I consistently see the message:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
'INSTALLSITESEARCH' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
'
I don't know if these errors are specific to cygwin,
but when I build I consistently see the message:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
'INSTALLSITESEARCH' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
'SITE_PREFIX' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
Writing Makefile for
---
Are I
When cpan goes to do a "get", it first says LWP not available,
then tries NET::Ftp (which failes because it is behind
a FW and needs to use ftp_proxy) and finally lynx. Lynx works
(fortunately).
Should Net:Ftp be able to use my "ftp_proxy" set in the
environment?
I took a look at email and Mbox and Mbox seemed to have more of the
features of
the sort I needed. I need to look at headers and dates in the short term to
expire older messages in some mailboxes that accumulate messages rapidly by
day.
One thing I note -- is that Outlook -- no matter how many t
Simon Cozens wrote:
This is insane. What's wrong with Email::Folder, again?
Again? Was something wrong with it before?
Maybe there should be an indication when a newer module replaces the
functionality of an older one and that the older one isn't supported
anymore.
=
This is fairly old module and the email addr associated with the author
bounces,
so I don't know if it is still being supported (?) but I wanted
to try using it and ran into a problem during the test final test phase:
First it had to preload/make some other packages (which seemed to work ok):
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Has anyone tried using Tk from perl?
I was using a simple script example that used Tk for graphics interaction.
It wouldn't run because it wanted Tk, so I cpanned / downloaded the Tk perl
libs and ran an a make and got:
/bin/perl.exe /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap
/usr/lib/perl5/5
A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin
File::Spec discussion. I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a "heads up" for any
interested parties.
A more satisfactory mapping is to base "Cygwin" on Win32, not Unix.
Cygwin, as an "OS interface" _partially_ supports posix mapping
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