Re: Science, Engineering, Craft (was once: something about hash references)
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps we should charge by the pound for CPAN modules? Not lines of code, but some kind of metric which appropriately conveys heft (toughness/strength/finish are, of course, premium.) Executions without problem? That would be a hella software metric. The pie would have to get spread really thin to even bother with it. Maybe they made the wrong decision in '68 with regard to letting vendors charge for software. Better model: software is not a product; the service is the product. Software quality can (must?) be driven by liability concerns? -- Nah, we straight.
Re: Perl bug, or author bug?
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Arthur Corliss wrote: snip Turns out this is a unsigned int to signed int casting problem, not a 64-bit unclean problem. Legitimate bug in Perl, either way, and a patch should be submitted to the devs shortly. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die
Package name for the bindings of libchamplain
Hi, I'm currently writing the Perl bindings for libchamplain (http://blog.pierlux.com/projects/libchamplain/en/) which consists of a graphical widgets that provide real time maps navigation. It's something similar to what google maps does but embeddable in a graphical application and using free maps. Libchamplain is written in C and is based on Clutter. It also provides a Gtk2 wrapper. The library has already bindings for python and C# (mono) and they both use the namespace Champlain. I asked in the Perl GTK2 mailing list for suggestions for the package name and I was pointed here. It was also suggested to add the library under Geo:: namespace in order no to pollute the top level. -- Emmanuel Rodriguez
