Re: Bug Tracking

2000-08-01 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:50:46 +0200, Richard Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hmmm. > For my part I'd like to say that I don't want to continue to work on any of > this unless a consensus is reached that this would be a good idea. It absolutely is a good idea. Those who believe they can

Re: Putting Test::Harness back on CPAN?

2001-02-18 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
Thanks! I've registered you as maintainer on PAUSE, so that the indexer will pick your uploads of Test::Harness in the usual way. -- andreas

Re: Why t/TEST and not Test::Harness?

2001-02-18 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:08:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G. Schwern) said: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 07:20:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >Why is t/TEST anything more than a thin wrapper around Test::Harness? >> >> Because t/TEST pre-

Re: B::Scan, Perl Refactoring Tool, CPANTS attainable...

2001-04-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:38:47 +0100, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It detects things like Autoloaders, eval STRING, goto LABEL, dynamic > method calls, using non-exported variables and functions... Why are you considering dynamic method calls an ill? I'm using them frequ

Re: B::Scan, Perl Refactoring Tool, CPANTS attainable...

2001-04-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:03:51 +0100, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I anticipated this. From the docs... >Perl has alot of wierd features. We love Perl for it, but >it makes predictable refactorings really difficult. This >module attempts to

Re: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip

2002-03-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On 02 Mar 2002 18:41:15 -0800, Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If someone would like to send them to me, I'll get my act together a > little better and get a new release out. A pseudo-patch would be OK? I found that Tar.pm contains chdir $_; and chdir $cwd

Re: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip

2002-03-17 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On 16 Mar 2002 11:14:56 -0800, Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Michael" == Michael G Schwern writes: Michael> and here's a patch. > Applied, thanks! Thanks to you both. Looking forward to test the new version. -- andreas

Re: [ Memory ] Re: Thought

2002-10-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:01:52 +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> If it only returns the value from sbrk(), damn well call it sbrk. > Ahh, someone on /my/ side. Mee too. > So far, all I got was criticism. I asked for it. But no-one said it was useful. > (Or I didn'

Re: what slow could be in Compress::Zlib?

2005-07-04 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:19:16 +0100, "Paul Marquess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > If I give the module a version number like 2.000_00, will the CPAN > shell ignore it? Yes. To be precice, the indexer on PAUSE will ignore it. But don't forget to write it with quotes around. -- andr

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Devel::TypeCheck 1.2

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:55:26 -0500, Gary Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The latest release of Devel::TypeCheck adds typing of functions (without polymorphism) as well as numerous bug fixes: > The uploaded file >Devel-TypeCheck-1.2.tar.gz > has entered CPAN as > file:

Re: Dependency trees was: CPAN Upload: D/DO/DOMM/Module-CPANTS-Analyse-0.5.tar.gz

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:26:52 -0800, Luke Closs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This would allow non-perl people to install perl packages much easier, > without having to mess with the CPAN shell and running tests. It > would also make installing CPAN packages into hosted environments much

Re: Fwd: CPAN Upload: D/DO/DOMM/Module-CPANTS-Analyse-0.5.tar.gz

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:42:58 +0100, Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am still considering building something[0] that shows the > module-dependency as a graph to show how "bad" the problem has become. > Even "simple" modules like YAML seem to include everything and the > kitchen-

Re: Binary distributions

2006-01-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:13:40 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FWIW, we're using dh-make-perl to create debian packages from CPAN >> modules. > An

Re: Binary distributions

2006-01-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:05:02 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Did anybody here have played with CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb? >> http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb/ >> >> Believing its documentation, i

Re: Test::Kwalitee 0.10

2006-02-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:15:01 -0800, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > I've released a snapshot of the long-promised Test::Kwalitee. Internally, it > uses the CPANTS code to analyze a module along 13 of the Kwalitee indicators. > I recommend using this in developer

Re: Test::Kwalitee 0.10

2006-02-17 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:41:25 -0800, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 12:33, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> The prerequisite Module::CPANTS::Analyse can currently not be >> installed because it relies on sme YAML import

Re: Request for Comments: Package testing results analysis, result codes

2006-02-19 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:22:20 +1100, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 1. Broken or corrupt packaging. > A bad tarball, MANIFEST files missing. Make sure you verify that all files in the distro are readable. Reject if the permissions are bogus. Recently we had an increasig nu

Re: What is the Value of t/0-signature.t?

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:51:02 -0800, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > In http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17934, a Test::MockObject user > dislikes the t/0-signature.t test that always runs. I have filed a couple of bug reports against distributions with a wrong

Re: CPAN and META.yml: no_index dir vs directory

2006-07-05 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:39:06 -0500, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:47 PM, David Golden wrote: >> Some potential options: >> >> (a) Add "directory" as a synonym to the spec and add "dir" as >> something that CPAN sites recognize. >> >> (b) Change the s

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:02:00 +1000, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> (What would be marginally worth it is having PAUSE sign distros. At >> least we can assure that the CPAN mirror didn't tamper with the >> files, which I think is the most likely "attack" on CPAN.) > Frankly,

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:22:16 +1000, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:02:00 +1000, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> said: >> >>

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 03:52:52 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > * Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 03:25]: >> Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> >>>>>>On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:0

Re: fetching module version from the command line

2006-07-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:36:52 -0400, "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > David Wheeler wrote: >> On Jul 13, 2006, at 05:56, Fergal Daly wrote: >> >>> That's funny, it looks like I did put some code in to disable the END >>> block if it's "require"d rather than "use"d. Tu

Re: fetching module version from the command line

2006-07-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:24:37 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > * Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-17 02:00]: >> perl -MDBI\ 999 >> DBI version 999 required--this is only version 1.50. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. > You can use an equals sign in

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:09:08 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Maybe we need a perlish kind of building it. It's not perlish >> to show each other a passport and make sure that the image >> there matches the face. > hmm, I don’t know how else you’d do it; at lea

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:08:05 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I’ll assume you didn’t actually mean it the way it came out; that > you were actually complaining about the tools. I agree that > Module::Signature falls far short of doing an adequate job; no > arg

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:35:02 +1000, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On the other hand, give me an easy to use, works _everywhere_, never > fails falsely positive or negative, never crashes, low-dependency > security enhancement to CPAN clients that I never have to think about,

Re: Module Signatures

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:10:07 +0800, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I do agree, but if you are going to do that we should know NOT to tell > people on failing platforms to do something we know is going to fail. > So if we know it doesn't work on Windows (for example) we shoul

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:23:09 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The mapping of flag to Module-Version pairs could actually reside on any > server with ftp or http access. CPAN.pm would be configured to use such > a URL. > What do you think? What you describe ca

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:51:42 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > What about adding a mechanism to PAUSE to map module/version pairs > to the bundles they are mentioned in? One could parse the most recent > bundles, extract the list of modules and the frozen version

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:42:52 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Sure, I did not mean that you implement it just because I had this > idea about 10 years later than Bundles were implemented. > I just meant to address one of the concerned raised in the discussion. O

Sort by kwalitee, descending! (Was: CPANTS and META.yml)

2006-11-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:47:03 +0100, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hi! > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:35:41PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: >> Question: how are the dists sorted on the /author/CPANID page? > Currently random (whatever the DB spits out), but I'll cha

Re: CPAN::Shell->install() downloads dependencies, but doesn't add them to @INC for tests

2006-11-08 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:26 +, Florian Scharinger <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > Hi perl-qa, > I'm trying to download missing Perl test modules automatically during > build time of my project, by using: > use CPAN; > CPAN::Shell->install("Test::Exception"); > Test::E

Re: CPAN::Shell->install() downloads dependencies, but doesn't add them to @INC for tests

2006-11-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:19:30 +, Florian Scharinger <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Andreas, > I updated CPAN and version > v1.6 works, meaning that the path to the > newly installed Perl modules is added to @INC. > However, this doesn't really solve my problem, since my co

Re: which modules can be used on an older version of perl?

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 05:56:18 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 12/4/06, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David Romano patched up Test-Simple to restore 5.4.5 compatibility. I'll >> see about releasing that as 0.66. That might make a whole lot more of CP

Re: CPANTS up and running again

2007-03-12 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:17:11 +0100, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hi! > CPANTS is now up and running again, with fresh data, which will be available > daily. (There might be a problem with UTF8 and the database, but that > should be solvable soon (especially as I

Re: CPANTS: suggestion for a new metric

2007-05-26 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 20:47:18 +0200, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 5/26/07, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 20:06:18 +0200, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>

Re: CPANTS: suggestion for a new metric

2007-05-26 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 26 May 2007 20:06:18 +0200, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 5/26/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 26 May 2007, at 18:45, demerphq wrote: >> > Maybe ill just upload my files in zip format from now on only, then >> > its not my problem anymore right? Wou

Re: Test::Pod / YAML explodes (and taking cpants with it...)

2007-09-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:45:38 +0200, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > perl -MYAML=LoadFile -le 'LoadFile("Number-Phone-1.58.yml")' Use YAML::Syck! It will cut your execution time too. Significantly! % time perl -MYAML::Syck=LoadFile -le 'LoadFile("Number-Phone-1.58.yml")

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.72

2007-09-24 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:04:14 -0700, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Well, the repository trunk is always kept at passing so if folks want to smoke > with that it's safe. Smoking repositories is not comparable with smoking release candidates. The number of possible

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.72

2007-09-24 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:00:59 -0700, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Most CPAN smoke testers wouldn't have caught it because even though they often > run alphas they usually don't install them. So the interactions with > dependencies would be lost. Not true. My s

Re: [Cpanplus-devel] Q: Build.PL/Makefile.PL, and CPAN testers...

2007-09-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:55:45 +0200, "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > This is a known issue and something that afaik Adam Kennedy is > looking to > resolve with having 'configure requires' support in META.yml. This sounds as if you understood configure_requires to

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-20 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:31:41 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Doesn’t seem like you can do that from within MakeMaker so far. See also http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30098 (Documentation for EXTRA_META is missing) -- andreas

Image::Magick vs Test::Harness 3.00

2007-11-08 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
Since 3.00 I have the following test output in my Image::Magick test t/wmf/read.. 1..2 ok 1 ok 2 ok You already have a parser for (t/wmf/read.t) at /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/pe1S7WD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/5.10.0/TAP/Harness.pm line 412 On IRC AndyA and I

Re: New proposed CPANTS metric: prereq_matches_use

2007-11-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:08:41 +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > There was already a module that does this, I can't remember it's name, Maybe B::Prereq and its companion Test::Dependencies. -- andreas

Re: [Fwd: FAIL Time-HiRes-1.9708 x86_64-linux-thread-multi 2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen]

2007-11-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:27:55 +0100, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: >> (Why do I care? Because I get every other week a report of Time::HiRes >> failing, that's why.) > Yes, and other core tests are sensitive to load (stress tests for > threads, Benchmark.pm,

Re: New proposed CPANTS metric: prereq_matches_use

2007-11-18 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:47:57 -0800, Matisse Enzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > On Nov 15, 2007, at 8:04 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: >> So in order to make everything work robustly, distros should >> explicitly list every single module they explicitly use – no >> shortcuts, no implica

UNKNOWN despite only failing tests -- how come?

2007-12-04 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
Bug in CPAN::Reporter and/or Test::Harness and/or CPAN.pm? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/796974 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/825449 All tests fail but Test::Harness reports NOTESTS and CPAN::Reporter concludes UNKNOWN and CPAN.pm then installs it. Your

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:12:51 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Adam Kennedy posed me a stumper on #toolchain tonight. In short, having a > test which checks your signature doesn't appear to be an actual deterrent to > tampering. The man-in-the-middle can jus

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-15 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:49:32 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Asking the wrong question. None of our testsuites is there to protect >> against spoof or attacks. That's simply not the goal. Same thing for >> 00-signature.t > We would seem to be agreeing. If

Re: What's the point of a SIGNATURE test?

2007-12-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:34:37 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> See above. Once the bug is reported there is no justification to keep >> the test around. In this case I prefer a skip over a removal because >> the test apparently once was useful. > Bt skipp

Re: Auto: Your message 'FAIL IO-AIO-2.51 i386-freebsd-thread-multi 6.2-release' has NOT been received

2007-12-22 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:34:49 -0600 (CST), Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > However, usually I end up needing to investigate aspects of the > testers platform, often by having them run snippets of Perl code from > the shell, or asking them to try a patch. There's not much

Re: Auto: Your message 'FAIL IO-AIO-2.51 i386-freebsd-thread-multi 6.2-release' has NOT been received

2007-12-22 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:22:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) >>>>> said: > 1. You get a fail report with an error message that doesn't tell you >exactly what went wrong. > 2. You rewrite your test in a way that it does te

Re: Auto: Your message 'FAIL IO-AIO-2.51 i386-freebsd-thread-multi 6.2-release' has NOT been received

2007-12-23 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:12:43 -0800, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 05:22:05 Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> 1. You get a fail report with an error message that doesn't tell you >>    exactly what went wrong. >&

Re: Auto: Your message 'FAIL IO-AIO-2.51 i386-freebsd-thread-multi 6.2-release' has NOT been received

2007-12-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:24:30 -0600 (CST), Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Sorry I didn't notice before I posted that this can be refactored into >> a while loop: >> >> while (You don't understand the output of your own test script){ >> Rewrite your test script; >>

Re: Auto: Your message 'FAIL IO-AIO-2.51 i386-freebsd-thread-multi 6.2-release' has NOT been received

2007-12-25 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:26:47 +, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: dc> Michael G Schwern wrote: >> [1] It can be argued that bleadperl testers should probably not email >> authors I tend to agree. dc> I'd argue that they should, as problems found testing against blead

Re: [Slightly OT] Interpreting cpan-testers failures

2008-03-21 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:34:15 -0500, Michael Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The common theme is this: > > Output from '/usr/bin/make': > !!

Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments

2008-09-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:21:34 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> a comment (a GIT commit id in this case). You need GNU tar 1.14 to >> handle the extended header correctly. Earlier versions will display >> a warning and extract the comment as a file. ew> Ah, interesting.

Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments

2008-09-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:55:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) >>>>> said: > (I'll have a look what CPAN.pm can do about this ASAP.) CPAN 1.92_64 is uploaded with a workaround for broken tar implementations. Please upgrade: cpan> in

Re: imaginary Makefile.PL

2008-09-03 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:57:20 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned >> in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm’s >> logic that if there is no Makefile.PL, it is a sane idea to make >> one up out of whole

Re: imaginary Makefile.PL (and scripts)

2008-09-04 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:24:34 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That is different than a tarball though. Does the script installation > have to be given up in order to eliminate the ambiguous behavior in the > case of a dist tarball? Good point. I can probably limit it

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Or, Andreas could change PAUSE, which is a bit more involved :) Do you not know the abandoned flag? Or not considering it appropriate? On the Edit Module Metadata page the DSLIP status has under Support Level: d

Re: passing the baton onwards

2008-09-06 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:15:04 -0700, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (Andreas J. Koenig) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0700, brian d foy <[EMAIL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::More 0.81_01

2008-09-08 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:47:58 -0700, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > http://test-more.googlecode.com/files/Test-Simple-0.81_01.tar.gz This version breaks the test for DAGOLDEN/Sub-Uplevel-0.1901.tar.gz t/05_honor_prior_override # Failed test 'use Sub::Uplevel;'

Re: Module::Build 0.2809 release coming, should we test it?

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:48:37 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/generated_by.module_build.list Since yesterday I have downloaded and analysed ~56000 testreports from cpantesters and found ~135 distros that have been tested by both MB 0.2808 an

Re: Module::Build 0.2809 release coming, should we test it?

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:36:00 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > # from Andreas J. Koenig > # on Monday 08 September 2008 15:16: >> Since yesterday I have downloaded and analysed ~56000 testreports from >> cpantesters and found ~135 d

Re: use Test::More no_plan => $plan;

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:00:54 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-09 08:15]: >> I was surprised to get a few hundred results > Note that CodeSearch indexes tarballs, so there are likely to be > a lot of dupes. B

Re: use Test::More no_plan => $plan;

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:25 -0700, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I've uploaded a new alpha to deal with this. It still breaks Sub::Uplevel. Sub::Uplevel has lots of dependencies. I won't smoke a Test-Simple that breaks Sub-Uplevel. Or if the fault is on Sub-Uplevel

Re: use Test::More no_plan => $plan;

2008-09-09 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:51:02 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > * Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-09 11:25]: >> It's definitely the 'I broke CPAN' level. My smoker has 260 >>

Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

2008-09-23 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:37:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) >>>>> said: >> (d) Something else > I lean toward PAUSE not indexing them thus pulling the plug as early > as possible. And so I have implemented it now. If it b

Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

2008-09-23 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:00:41 -0400, "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Problem 1: race condition between unarchiving and execution if > Makefile.PL or Build.PL is world writable (ditto test files as well) > (a) Have CPAN and CPANPLUS refuse to run 'perl *.PL' if the PL

Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

2008-09-29 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:40:09 +0200, "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> And so I have implemented it now. If it breaks too much in too short >> time, we could probably revert it, but first I'd like to see how bad >> we really do. > I agree to this (first) solution; thi

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-10-01 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:11:00 -0500, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> Anyway, I think the average CPAN author doesn't >> really know or care about that, sadly. >> See also > FWIW, this is true. I have never thought about it. > Personally, I am confused as to why

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-11-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:51:26 -0600, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I agree with demerphq here, why can't PAUSE just fix this? It didn't come up in the hasty discussion about this problem, it didn't occur to me for a moment. And to nobody else. And the number of victim

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-11-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:13:40 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Now that the CPAN shells and archiving modules are handling it at their end, I > think the PAUSE filter should be removed. It's not PAUSE's job to be the code > police. It is 'tar xzf CPANFILE.

Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

2008-11-13 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:44:45 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:13:40 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL >>>>>>> PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #40976] New files installed without user-write permission

2008-11-18 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:34:09 +0100, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Can anyone help me out with this? Is this EUI's fault or something > else? Is anything to do with this permission issue that we have been > discussing? For the record: Unix has three types of permissions, "user",

Re: What's the common denominator in these NYTProf failures?

2009-01-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:50:05 +, Tim Bunce said: > I'm strugling to find a common denominator in these test results: > http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=Devel-NYTProf+2.07_94 > It would be wonderful if there was some tool that would analyse the > perl

Re: Toolchain issues

2010-04-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:42:28 +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" > said: >For some reasons I need Date-Manip-5.xx instead of the parallel >developed version -6.xx. By time-stamp, -5.xx may even be newer >cpan SBECK/Date-Manip-5.56.tar.gz >works fine, but if you do that ag