David Golden wrote:
Optional features: is supported in META.yml, but it requires a lot of
manual intervention and trickery to make it work. And it is very poorly
documented. (Tux)
Get rid of it. I think each such feature should be reified as a module,
which one can declare as a dependency of
David Golden wrote:
17.01) Enumerate a list of license strings explicitly in the spec,
Yes, that's good.
17.02) Make the license field an arrayref rather than a scalar.
Bad idea as it stands. There are at least two ways that different
licenses can be combined in one distro: (a) you may
David Golden wrote:
DLSIP codes should be specified in META.* as a resource.
No. DLSIP was an early attempt at metadata, and should be superseded
by META. It is not a single piece of information, but an abbreviated
representation of five separate items. The P item is already covered
by META.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Zefram zef...@fysh.org wrote:
17.02) Make the license field an arrayref rather than a scalar.
Could make the field a string expression, with the defined keywords as
atomic expressions, | and operators for license combination, and
parens for precedence. A
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
We certainly need something in this direction. We should be clear
that each language has
Anyone any idea why I'm not getting mail to this list? Have I been
blocked? Nothing in my spam traps and the last mail i got was Aug 26. I
note that there has been a flurry of CMSP items in the web archives, but
I'm not going to both cut-n-pasting replies to into emails :(
Cheers,
Barbie.
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote:
Anyone any idea why I'm not getting mail to this list? Have I been
blocked? Nothing in my spam traps and the last mail i got was Aug 26. I
note that there has been a flurry of CMSP items in the web archives, but
I'm not
* David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-11T21:49:28]
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Ricardo Signes
perl.cpanw...@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
I am also happy to add a meta2_name method to all the Software::License
classes to avoid a direct connection between SL and META, but I don't want
to
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Chris Weyl chris.w...@gmail.com wrote:
we ought to
give authors a clear, easy way to unambiguously specify the terms
their software is under...
Authors have a clear, easy, unambiguous way
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Chris Weyl chris.w...@gmail.com wrote:
As a packager outside of the CPAN I want to have a good idea if we can
redistribute the software -- legally and within project policy. Just
as dependency metadata gives me a good view into the software's
requirements, so
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
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