Re: File::ShareDir and development?

2014-04-01 Thread André Walker 

Hello,

On 2014-04-01 10:03, Gabor Szabo wrote:
I use File::ShareDir to locate the shared files installed with the 
module.
How can ensure that it will access the local share directory in the 
development

environment during development/testing/installation and won't try to
use the files already installed by a previous version of the module?


I bumped into that same problem a while ago, and used an ugly hack to 
solve it. There might be better ways to work around it, but anyhow, this 
is as far as I got.


Note: I'm using Dist::Zilla and OurPkgVersion plugin, I'm not sure it 
would work otherwise. This method is in the main package.


sub _get_dist_file {
my ($self, $file) = @_;

if (__PACKAGE__-VERSION) {
return File::ShareDir::dist_file('My-Dist-Name-Here', $file);
}

return share/$file;
}

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
André

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-03 Thread André Walker 

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 09:26:33PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote:

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
 In any case, I set up a git/GitHub repository for String-Random here:
 
 https://github.com/shlomif/perl-String-Random
 
 I used https://metacpan.org/release/App-cpangitify for doing that and then

 added some commits of my own. Pull requests are welcome there.

Shlomi, telling the original author that he is welcome to submit pull
requests to your repository is a bit too cocky.



Shlomi++

Not only was he really polite with the original author, he is also
contributing to the entire Perl community. He wasn't cocky at all! Great
example for whoever wants to contribute to an existing un-maintained module.

Cheers,
André

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-22 Thread André Walker 

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:16:23AM -0800, Karen Etheridge wrote:

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:13:27AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:

Well, I found the results of the Search distribution form not very
good (I think because it only searches in the documentation?) but maybe
that's because I'm used to s.c.o's grep utility (which lacks some
useful linking back to the file where it found the string).


You do know about grep.cpan.me, right? :)


Cool! I, for one, didn't know about it :)

Re: New payment module

2012-10-21 Thread André Walker 
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:53 AM, André Walker an...@andrewalker.net wrote:
  So what I'm trying to ask here is whether I should really make a new
  module (and namespace for more gateways), or just patch
  Business::OnlinePayments. I know that rewriting the wheel is a bad
  thing, but sometimes it brings improvements. I also contacted the
  author, to see what he thinks about this.

 I am usually in favour of picking up and improving existing modules.
 We have too many unmaintained modules on CPAN.

 If after a while you really feel the existing module cannot answer the needs,
 then create a new one.

I agree. I'll give it some more thought for a few days. From what I've
seen, it does a slightly different job, and on a lower level than what
I'm trying to do. So I might even get some of my drivers to use BOP
drivers, who knows?

 Having a Common Payment Interface sound really nice. Can it be done?
 What about

 Maybe Business::CPI ?

Sounds better. Thank you!

André