Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 3/1/07, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had some requests for a mechanism for module authors to indicate whether or not they want to be copied on module test emails generated by CPAN::Reporter (particularly for passing reports). This seems like the kind of thing that should go in

Module proposal: Test::Timer

2007-03-01 Thread Jonas B. Nielsen
Hello, I have just finished a module I need at a gig with a client. The module is called Test::Timer, it resembles, Test::Benchmark a lot, apart from it is much simpler. It exports a single method: time_ok Which takes a body of code, a threshold and a name; time_ok( sub {

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 3/1/07, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had some requests for a mechanism for module authors to indicate whether or not they want to be copied on module test emails generated by CPAN::Reporter (particularly for passing reports). This seems like the kind of thing that should go in

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread David Golden
On 3/1/07, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion would be to have a section 'hints' in META.yml (that I think that's an excellent name for the section I proposed. Of course, we would like to see all the variants we grow used to, like cc_author: no cc_author: yes

Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread David Golden
I've had some requests for a mechanism for module authors to indicate whether or not they want to be copied on module test emails generated by CPAN::Reporter (particularly for passing reports). This seems like the kind of thing that should go in the module META.yml. Is there a de facto standard

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread Smylers
David Golden writes: Is there a de facto standard for custom extensions to META.yml? (I didn't see one in the spec.) An example might be fields beginning with a capital letter or X-foo style extensions. E.g. X-cc-author: no Does putting X- in front of such fields really help? X- isn't

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-01 21:45]: Can't we just start using cc-author as a field, then if it takes off get it blessed as part of the official spec? Then how do you tell whether `bastract` is a typo or extension field? I think adding a `hints` field which is a hash of hashes,

Module proposal: Syslog::DevKit

2007-03-01 Thread Brad Lhotsky
I'm in the process of implementing a large scale central syslog architecture based on syslog-ng and POE. syslog-ng buys me compliance while I finish building my custom correlation engine with POE. I wanted a way to deal with syslog messages as they came in from the network, as well as messages

Re: Custom extensions to META.yml

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Pitchford
Following David Goldens' observations, Adriano Ferreira wrote: This way, the section to be added to META.yml would be hints: test_reporter: cc_author: no This seems a very pragmatic solution to a problem, however given recent posts, it seems to be a solution in search of approval - is