Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:00:12PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Jonathan Yu # on Monday 25 May 2009: I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it over. Hi Jonathan, That's a good question in general, but for Qt4, I'm inclined to say that a better approach

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
This may solve both of your dilemmas: http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/aliased-0.22/lib/aliased.pm :-) We packaged that for Debian not too long ago. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, # from Chris Burel # on Tuesday 26 May 2009: One thing I

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi Chris, # from Chris Burel # on Tuesday 26 May 2009: One thing I thought of doing was calling the module Qt4, but that would populate the Qt namespace. That is going to cause you headaches with the PAUSE indexer. It finds all of your package statements and will flag your dist as

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread breno
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: Erm... I don't think that the Qt module written in 1997 would support Qt 3 :) Actually, from the module's README file:  This release, PerlQt 0.03, is distributed under the LGPL and requires  Qt-1.1 and Perl 5.004

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Chris: I'm not sure if that's the most desirable behaviour, as it differs from the rest of the Perl world... Also, one useful thing is that if you want to create an object of something in Perl you could do: my $foo = Foo::Bar-new(); my $bar = $foo-new(); Which would create a $bar of the same

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Ward
It also makes it easier to inherit the constructor when subclassing the module. I would suggest that Perl modules should be done the Perl way, rather than by importing ideas from other languages. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.comwrote: Chris: I'm not sure

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 21:22:33 Jonathan Yu wrote: Chris: I'm not sure if that's the most desirable behaviour, as it differs from the rest of the Perl world... Also, one useful thing is that if you want to create an object of something in Perl you could do: my $foo = Foo::Bar-new(); my

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 26, 2009 12:33:08 PM -0700, Bill Ward is alleged to have said: How would you feel about ref($foo)-new(); --As for the rest, it is mine. As a clone? Off the top of my head, I can't see what's that doing. A bit of thinking (and reading) about ref() makes it understandable, if

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Ward
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp.perl.module-auth...@weftsoar.net wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 05:56:10PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 26, 2009 12:33:08 PM -0700, Bill Ward is alleged to have said: How would you feel about ref($foo)-new(); --As for

Best way to abandon usable code?

2009-05-26 Thread Joshua Isom
I've recently wrote some code and programs that graph a function(not a bunch of points), but it's reached the level that I'll probably ever need since I know how to debug any issues and how to make it work for me. There're perl modules for interfacing with something that plots points but this

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Burel
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: # from Jonathan Yu # on Monday 25 May 2009: I'd like to remove the Qt module from CPAN, or be able to take it over. Hi Jonathan, That's a good question in general, but for Qt4, I'm inclined to say that a better

Re: Best way to abandon usable code?

2009-05-26 Thread Andy Lester
On May 26, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: Is there some best place for abandoning useful code without having to bother maintaining it? Usable code without author maintenance? Sounds like many CPAN authors have beat you to it! :-) xoa -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com =

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Burel
And really, what's wrong with Qt4::Application-new()? I've been modeling the Qt4 bindings off the Qt3 ones that Ashley and Germain wrote. And that's how it works in 3, so I kept it.

Re: Process for Removing Qt Module from CPAN

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Burel
No, Check out this document from Germain Garand wrote for PerlQt3: http://web.mit.edu/perlqt_v3.009/www/index.html#anatomy_of_perlqt Syntax elements summary : 1. All Qt classes are accessed through the prefix Qt::, which replaces the initial Q of Qt classes. When browsing the Qt documentation,