Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! I was doing a regular update for http://perl-begin.org/ when I updated http://perl-begin.org/mailing-lists/ and noticed that it still linked to the old Mailing lists' database at list.cpan.org. Now I learned on the CPAN Testers mailing list that Gabor started creating a better list

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Elaine Ashton
On May 11, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! I was doing a regular update for http://perl-begin.org/ when I updated http://perl-begin.org/mailing-lists/ and noticed that it still linked to the old Mailing lists' database at list.cpan.org. Now I learned on the CPAN Testers

Module::Build + automatic README / LICENSE

2009-05-11 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
I was recently pointed in the direction of my kwalitee tests: http://cpants.perl.org/author/PEVANS They all fail for not having a README file or a LICENSE. I was wondering, since I have e.g. the following Build.PL: my $build = Module::Build-new ( module_name = 'IO::Async', ...

Re: Module::Build + automatic README / LICENSE

2009-05-11 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:07:36PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: * Take the module given by module_name (or some other named one), run it through pod2txt README You forgot to specify create_readme = 1. * Look up the named license from a standard set of default ones and print it to

Re: Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan Leto
Howdy, To my extreme enjoyment, I found out that someone has already taken the burden of creating a full interface to the GMP integer functions in the form of Math::GMPz [1]. There is also Math::GMPf and Math::GMPq, in case you were wondering. Cheers, [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GMPz/

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Elaine Ashton
On May 11, 2009, at 5:37 PM, David Golden wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote: Well, nobody asked for the data nor did anyone ever offer updates. http://tinyurl.com/r26sxy http://tinyurl.com/o2fufa http://tinyurl.com/osbcmv Sorry, I don't hang out

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread David Golden
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote: On May 11, 2009, at 5:37 PM, David Golden wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote: Well, nobody asked for the data nor did anyone ever offer updates. http://tinyurl.com/r26sxy

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Elaine Ashton
On May 11, 2009, at 6:37 PM, David Golden wrote: I don't object to you being busy -- it happens to all of us -- but blaming others for not trying hard enough is absurd. You probably aren't in the middle of a trans-con move, starting a new job, etc in addition to the baby. I mean, sure, why

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Ward
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote: On May 11, 2009, at 6:37 PM, David Golden wrote: I don't object to you being busy -- it happens to all of us -- but blaming others for not trying hard enough is absurd. You probably aren't in the middle of a trans-con

Re: Help Needed in Sorting and Updating the List of Perl Mailing Lists

2009-05-11 Thread Elaine Ashton
On May 11, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Bill Ward wrote: I think the blame game is silly here - we should be looking for solutions moving forward, not who's fault things are. The best thing to do now, IMHO, would be to either change the hosting or keep it where it is but grant access to let others