How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, we have been discussing with Domm how CPANTS should check if a distribution declares each of its prerequisites correctly which brought us to the the point that we have a problem. Let's focus for now only on dependencies on other CPAN modules and not on external libraries. So if I am using

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost a lot of yours and mine's original context, etc. But I'll try to do the best I can. On Thursday 10 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu,

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope it's not much of a flamewar so far, but it sure seems to have escalated into a minor one. You are a Nazi![1] - oops! Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost a lot of yours and mine's original context, etc. But I'll try to do the best I

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 15:48 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really sick of this game with Godwin's law. I think he was joking and I was not offended. -- --gh

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:04 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: I have started to outline the recommended way of doing this here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?cpan_packaging but of course your input is highly appreciated. It looks good to me. The only nit I have is that everyone is

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 11 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 15:48 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I am really sick of this game with Godwin's law. I think he was joking and I was not offended. Yes, this was a joke. Though I sometimes use

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! Sorry for the late response. On Friday 11 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Guy! I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread Elliot Shank
Gabor Szabo wrote: So if I am using Tk::Widget::A and Tk::Widget::B... Tk::Widget::Z all provided by Tk. Should I add all of them as prerequisite of my module or should I add only Tk? Given the expanding list of dual-lived modules, I've started listing all dependencies, including core ones.

Re: Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-04-11 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 17:56 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: This is the first relevent one (subject changed and later in the new thread) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6404.html From what I can understand it reads data from META.yml and other sources like

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:10:05PM +0200, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I am using Tk::Widget::A and Tk::Widget::B... Tk::Widget::Z all provided by Tk. Should I add all of them as prerequisite of my module or

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Thomas Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-11T13:07:30] On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:10:05PM +0200, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I am using Tk::Widget::A and Tk::Widget::B... Tk::Widget::Z all provided by Tk.

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:39:21PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: In general, listing everything is a good idea -- but there are cases where it is just too much work right now. For dists that contain dozens of modules, all of which are very unlikely to ever be split up, it's not very

publish/subcribe model via network

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out whether this has been done before and/or looking for suggestions on the best way to implement it. I would like the publish clients to connect to a server, then publish their message and disconnect. (Optionally, they can stay connected and publish more

Re: publish/subcribe model via network

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Dolan
On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: ... I would like the publish clients to connect to a server, then publish their message and disconnect. (Optionally, they can stay connected and publish more messages.) The subscribe clients would hold persistent connections to the server