Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)
Joshua ben Jore schreef: Adriano Ferreira: Peter Michaux: I'm writing a new version of JavaScript::Minification on CPAN. This is my first CPAN module and first Perl project! If someone is willing to take a look to see if I've done something terribly wrong packaging the code I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Currently the new module is in a subversion repository. If you have subversion you should be able to check it out and test it with svn co http://dev.michaux.ca/svn/random/JavaScript-Minifier cd JavaScript-Minifier perl MakeFile.PL make test Some comments on packaging: * it may be a good idea to add a LICENSE parameter to Makefile.PL (supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker = 6.31) * you might like to add POD and POD coverage tests (for CPANTS' sake) Some comments on code: * it does not look like Perl code, but C code translated literally to Perl. That's because this is a translation of the C program, jsmin. http://javascript.crockford.com/jsmin.html The code contains the strange '\000'. I see basically 3 steps: 1. respect strings 2. remove comments 3. compress everything else See also Javascript::Squish. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?JavaScript::Squish -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger.
Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)
On 5/25/07, Dr.Ruud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua ben Jore schreef: Adriano Ferreira: Peter Michaux: I'm writing a new version of JavaScript::Minification on CPAN. This is my first CPAN module and first Perl project! If someone is willing to take a look to see if I've done something terribly wrong packaging the code I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Currently the new module is in a subversion repository. If you have subversion you should be able to check it out and test it with svn co http://dev.michaux.ca/svn/random/JavaScript-Minifier cd JavaScript-Minifier perl MakeFile.PL make test Some comments on packaging: * it may be a good idea to add a LICENSE parameter to Makefile.PL (supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker = 6.31) * you might like to add POD and POD coverage tests (for CPANTS' sake) Some comments on code: * it does not look like Perl code, but C code translated literally to Perl. That's because this is a translation of the C program, jsmin. http://javascript.crockford.com/jsmin.html The code contains the strange '\000'. I see basically 3 steps: 1. respect strings 2. remove comments 3. compress everything else You may want want to convert from UTF16 to perl native strings, then convert back. JavaScript is defined as being stored in UTF16 but that's kind of unusual elsewhere. Isn't it? Josh
Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)
Joshua ben Jore schreef: Dr.Ruud: I see basically 3 steps: 1. respect strings 2. remove comments 3. compress everything else You may want want to convert from UTF16 to perl native strings, then convert back. JavaScript is defined as being stored in UTF16 but that's kind of unusual elsewhere. Isn't it? AFAIK, the UTF-16 of JavaScript is internal. So you can just put abc in your JavaScript code, there is no need to make that \0a\0b\0c. :) -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger.
anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
http://news.com.com/2100-1029-6186430.html -- It is not possible to make a mistake. (customary greeting given by Bokononists when meeting a shy person)
Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
On May 25, 2007, at 12:04 PM, David Nicol wrote: http://news.com.com/2100-1029-6186430.html I don't understand the PHP-Perl angle. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
On 25 May 2007, at 18:09, Andy Armstrong wrote: Have they released source? The site says it's a hosted web service. Ah. This: http://recaptcha.net/plugins/php/ ? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
On 25 May 2007, at 18:04, David Nicol wrote: http://news.com.com/2100-1029-6186430.html Have they released source? The site says it's a hosted web service. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
On 25 May 2007, at 18:04, David Nicol wrote: http://news.com.com/2100-1029-6186430.html Captcha::reCAPTCHA coming up as soon as I write some docs. Here it is in action: http://hexten.net/cgi-bin/captch.pl -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?
On 25 May 2007, at 19:53, Andy Armstrong wrote: Here it is in action: http://hexten.net/cgi-bin/captch.pl Now on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Captcha-reCAPTCHA/ -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)
On 5/25/07, Joshua ben Jore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want want to convert from UTF16 to perl native strings, then convert back. JavaScript is defined as being stored in UTF16 but that's kind of unusual elsewhere. Isn't it? As Dr. Ruud said; also, ECMAscript engine authors (at least David Leonard) seem to regard normalizing everything to UTF8 as equally bizarre. The Xerxes XML parser, for instance, uses 16 internally.
