Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
David Landgren wrote: I don't know how to distinguish between someone who likes to jumps through hoops and someone who cares about their modules. I do, but it involves reading what they've written instead of (for example) just rgrepping for the current POD testing flavour of the month. >

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:19:07 +0100, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Dolan wrote: > > In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package > > manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license > > information at all. It's very frustrating.

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 2, 2005, at 12:13 PM, David Landgren wrote: No. I'm complaining that there's no need for two different Kwalitee points for this, that's all. I think one is sufficient (and a very worthy one I should add, in case I wasn't being clear, which I probably wasn't). Ahh, that was unclear f

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Randy W. Sims
David Landgren wrote: I am not going to use Module::Build. I've tried it but I prefer EU::MM, at least for the time being. I'm all for the concept, but I wanted to do something really basic with it for a new module a while ago. I forget the details, but after futzing around for a while I just f

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread David Landgren
Chris Dolan wrote: On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:19 AM, David Landgren wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:19 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > I know that the current alpha of ExtUtils::MakeMaker supports this, but > until it is released as stable *and* module authors have the time to > upgrade EU::MM *and* release a new version of their module(s), those > authors will be pena

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:19 AM, David Landgren wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one o

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-11-02 Thread David Landgren
Chris Dolan wrote: In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one of them has been fixed (thanks Ken Williams). To encoura

Re: Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-10-31 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:34:09AM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: > To encourage authors to correct this oversight, I propose a new pair > of Kwalitee tests. Both would be nice, but if either of them were > implemented, I'd be thrilled. I'd prefer that someone else implement > the test (l

Proposed Kwalitee tests: has_license and/or has_meta_yml_license

2005-10-31 Thread Chris Dolan
In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, but one of them has been fixed (thanks Ken Williams). To encourage authors to correc