Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think supporting options like other or mixed should resolve most of these cases. Sure, automatic tools that use this field will be out of luck, but that should be a fairly small minority. This is exactly what I mean. I

Re: Arrays in Config::General without resorting to copy/paste OR yaml

2008-10-30 Thread sawyer x
I guess I can do that, but I think having a 1 liner BUILD subroutine is simpler than writing an extension to Config::Any. I'm afraid of starting a YAML vs. The World flamewar, but I don't like YAML since it differs between white space and tab-created whitespace and a few other small nuisances

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:13:24PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, in summary, here's my objections to the current 'license' field in META.yml: * poorly documented; * limited range of options for licences; * only

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-30 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-30T12:53:58] I agree that the second point is a problem. I'd like to solve it by delegating to Software::License. Anything it knows about should be a valid choice. All that does it make it Someone Elses Problem while still not solving the