Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:16:58AM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: > On 10/6/06, Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I got something that can send you directly to rt.cpan.org and prefill > >the textarea with the patch. The problem is that that textarea has > >hard text wrapping whic

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-07 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
On 10/6/06, Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got something that can send you directly to rt.cpan.org and prefill the textarea with the patch. The problem is that that textarea has hard text wrapping which can cause the patch to be malformed. Therefore, to make life easier for the

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-06 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-06 11:40]: > The problem is that that textarea has hard text wrapping which > can cause the patch to be malformed. Therefore, to make life > easier for the module maintainer, the patch should be attached > as a file. The sad part for the patcher is

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-06 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
On 10/5/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 October 2006 20:36, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: > I couldn't resist the temptation and started working on this feature. > It's almost done now, I think it should be up by tomorrow or Friday. No one has said this in a while, so: Th

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 4, 2006, at 3:16 PM, brian d foy wrote: Not really. :) The spell checking is done by external programs, and the Pod::Spell module outputs something that doesn't have all of the original docs in it. You can find out if there are spelling errors, but you don't get back something that fix

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-05 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
On 10/3/06, Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/3/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read a lot of documentation for CPAN modules and find a fair few typos. Yet > making patches for the POD is a hassle; I would have to download the archive, > uncompress it, copy the fi

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:58 PM, brian d foy wrote: > > > Even better would be something like Pod::Spellchecker. I've started > > the > > project several times but never had that much motivation to finish it. > > Things would b

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-04 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 20:36, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: > I couldn't resist the temptation and started working on this feature. > It's almost done now, I think it should be up by tomorrow or Friday. No one has said this in a while, so: Thank you! Great work! -- c

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:58 PM, brian d foy wrote: Even better would be something like Pod::Spellchecker. I've started the project several times but never had that much motivation to finish it. Things would be simple if it could just spell-check everything, but I want it to be able to skip verbati

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-04 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
On 10/3/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I read a lot of documentation for CPAN modules and find a fair few typos. Yet making patches for the POD is a hassle; I would have to download the archive, uncompress it, copy the file, fix the typo, generate a patch, and submit it. Wouldn't it b

Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-04 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice to be able to pull up a text entry box online with the > contents of the POD, fix any typos inline, then submit it to the server which > can generate a patch and perhaps redirect me to rt.cpan.org? I thin

[Fwd: Re: AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker]

2006-10-03 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Meant to send this to the list. Sorry. Original Message References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> While we're on the subject... it would be nice if AnnoCPAN had a checkbox "This is a bug in the module", that (if checked) autocreated an RT ticket (in addition to posting a message) and th

AnnoCPAN Doc Patch Maker

2006-10-03 Thread chromatic
I read a lot of documentation for CPAN modules and find a fair few typos. Yet making patches for the POD is a hassle; I would have to download the archive, uncompress it, copy the file, fix the typo, generate a patch, and submit it. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to pull up a text entry box onl