Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: 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

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:36:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: That's the bit where I suggest instead of saying, eg, frobnitz to mean the Frobnitz licence you say frobnitz to mean the licence whose text is in the 'frobnitz' file. That would

META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-10-31 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre requires a perl built using threads\n; exit 0; } Is there any way to add this requirement to META.yml? Gabor

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-10-31 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre requires a perl built using threads\n; exit 0; } Probably off topic,

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-10-31 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config; if (not $Config{usethreads}) { warn Padre

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shlomi Fish): On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: 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

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Ken Williams
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Ben Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having the full text of the licences available in the distribution seems like a good idea, though. How about making it so that 'make dist'/'Build dist' creates the files with appropriate contents if they don't exist, and

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +, Ben Morrow wrote: Having the full text of the licences available in the distribution seems like a good idea, though. How about making it so that 'make dist'/'Build dist' creates the files with appropriate contents if they don't exist, and throws an

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:03:10PM +, David Cantrell wrote: What if my version of GPL2.txt has an extra CRLF at the end because of how I cut n pasted it from the GNU website? Or has the address changed, as they are wont to do. Nicholas Clark

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Bill Ward
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:23 AM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:36:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: That's the bit where I suggest instead of saying, eg, frobnitz to mean the Frobnitz licence you say

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-31T16:12:01] Instead of including a COPY of the license in every distro, how about putting the URL into the META.yml file? (Or is it URI? I always get that mixed up.) This seems like the sort of thing that URL or URI or whichever it is would be perfect

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-10-31 Thread Chris Dolan
Just add a dependency on thread::shared or one of the other threading libraries. Push your problem up the chain! Chris On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre is being installed is threaded. use Config;