Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:05:03PM +, Neil Bowers wrote: >At the London Perl Workshop I gave a talk on the CPAN River, and how > development and release practices >should mature as a dist moves up river. This was prompted by the > discussions we had at Berlin earlier >this year.

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2012-12-20 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:23:51PM +0100, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:36, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote: A separate install database for each install location seems like the only workable approach. It seems to me that the database indeed will have to be[1] per

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2012-12-20 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote: A separate install database for each install location seems like the only workable approach. One minor complication of that is the strictest sense

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2012-12-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:53:49PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: On 2012.12.16 11:57 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: * Where to put the database? What about non-standard install locations? Another is to have a separate install database for non-standard install locations. A separate

Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:59:32PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:53:45PM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Adam Kennedy a...@ali.as wrote: I've been meaning to propose for a while that for CPAN Perl 5 we drop support for everything

perl6 is a version of perl5

2010-04-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: But perl6 is not a version of perl5. I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree. I believe that's a short-sighted viewpoint that has some value in the short term but is likely to lead us to make

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 16:50, Tim Bunce wrote: * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files means there'll be much less

Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:39:27AM -0400, David Nicol wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@perl.org wrote: The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a database instead of a

Re: CMSP 29. Language

2009-10-11 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:44:16PM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Zefram wrote: David Golden wrote: Perl 6 is coming. Some code in Perl 6 is already being uploaded to the CPAN. A new language field is an important part of the structure we need to allow Perl 6 to reuse the existing CPAN

Re: CMSP 25. Controlling test suite runs

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:53:28AM -0400, David Golden wrote: 25. Controlling test suite runs Proposal: The META spec should add flags to indicate that distribution's tests may be shuffled or run in parallel. (SlavenRezic) Doesn't seem to belong in META to me (echoing Adam K's point).

Re: CMSP 33. Install Meta files and make them queryable

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:21:14AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-09T07:56:24] 33. Install Meta files and make them queryable Proposal: Using something like .packlist or File::ShareDir, the Meta file should be installed along with the distribution

Re: CMSP 30. Trove-Like Categories

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:21:30AM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:55:12 -0400 2009: 30. Trove-Like Categories Proposal: Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics programming languages, etc. As opposed