Re: How to set META-driven index: yes

2008-07-23 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:11 +0200, Steffen Schwigon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! I'm experimenting with an Acme module and want to provide meta information explicitely in the META.yml because the PAUSE indexer doesn't seem to look into my utf-8 filenames. You are not alone. See

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Burak Gürsoy
You can bundle a Build.PL (Module::Build) and use it to generate the dist, and you'll get a shiny meta file :) Or you can drop EU::MM and use only M::B which has some transition mechanism for EU::MM users. However I prefer to use a native Makefile.PL... Original-Nachricht

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Precious
On 07/21/2008 10:57 PM, Bill Ward wrote: My module Number::Format has some red areas in its Kwalitee report http://cpants.perl.org/dist/kwalitee/Number-Format When I release 1.60, I tried to fix a lot of the kwalitee issues with the previous version, 1.52. However, it appears that some of

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Burak Gürsoy
I'm not interested in Module::Build. I've checked your Makefile.PL and you're not doing anything special with it (like subclassing or XS stuff, etc.), so it'll be straight forward to add Module::Build support to your module. And since M::B is in core starting with 5.10, I think it's the way

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Ovid
--- On Wed, 23/7/08, Burak Gürsoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in Module::Build. I've checked your Makefile.PL and you're not doing anything special with it (like subclassing or XS stuff, etc.), so it'll be straight forward to add Module::Build support to your module. And

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Ward
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Burak Gürsoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in Module::Build. I've checked your Makefile.PL and you're not doing anything special with it (like subclassing or XS stuff, etc.), so it'll be straight forward to add Module::Build support to your

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Elliot Shank
Bill Ward wrote: But to my mind, the may problem with M::B is that it's moving away from the traditional Unix concept of using make to install things. And I'm not willing to go there. Just as a counterpoint, I refuse to use EU::MM in new code. It's too broken and there's no reason to use a

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But to my mind, the may problem with M::B is that it's moving away from the traditional Unix concept of using make to install things. A lot of Perl is about platform-independence. Probably even more than other languages that occupied this cliché ad nauseam.

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
Elliot Shank wrote: Bill Ward wrote: But to my mind, the may problem with M::B is that it's moving away from the traditional Unix concept of using make to install things. And I'm not willing to go there. Avoiding something because it's not what you're used to strikes me as being a bit silly.

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Ward
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Steffen Schwigon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But to my mind, the may problem with M::B is that it's moving away from the traditional Unix concept of using make to install things. A lot of Perl is about platform-independence.

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Elliot Shank
David Cantrell wrote: As a counter-counter-point, if you're going to refuse to use EU::MM because it's too broken, you have to refuse to use Module::Build for the same reason. Ah. Ok, I'll use nothing.

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
Elliot Shank wrote: David Cantrell wrote: As a counter-counter-point, if you're going to refuse to use EU::MM because it's too broken, you have to refuse to use Module::Build for the same reason. Ah. Ok, I'll use nothing. Well done! Ten out of ten for deliberately misunderstanding! --

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Ward
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:09 PM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you only care about Unix-a-likes, you still need to remember that GNU make, Sun make, SGI make, etc are only partially compatible. Then consider that GNU software tends to break in stupid ways from one release to