Re: Testing a Script Distributed with a Module

2005-07-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:17:44PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: One other curiosum: As a result of my Phalanx work, I've gotten in the habit of using File::Temp to create 'anonymous' directories and files in which to conduct testing. I tried that here: my $tdir = tempdir( CLEANUP =

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: But not with the actual AUTHOR of the module apparently. From what I can tell, this does nothing at all to help the author of the modules. There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Nik Clayton
Michael G Schwern wrote: So where's the RSS push interface so I don't have to go checking 2983 RSS feeds every day to see if there's anything interesting? Call me a snob, but O(1) is still better than O(n). PS Its entirely possible I'm just ignorant. www.bloglines.com for an example of

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the code. [snip]