Re: CPAN question

2004-11-24 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) writes: My impulse is to regularly update the modules on CPAN, at least until we get a semi-functional beta in place. But I'm apprehensive that using CPAN like CVS might annoy some of the maintainers. :) You can mark distributions as developer releases,

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-12 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:20, Christopher Hicks wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Sean Quinlan wrote: How do we mark uploads as a dev release? Can it be done after it's uploaded or is it something in the release before upload that indicates it (I browsed YAML .49_01 and didn't see anything)?

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-11 Thread Michael Peppler
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 03:29, Sean Quinlan wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:35, _brian_d_foy wrote: You can mark distributions as developer releases, upload as appropriate, and delete distributions when you don't need them any more. :) Thanks, sounds perfect! I looked around PAUSE though

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-11 Thread Ken Williams
On Nov 10, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Sean Quinlan wrote: Just wondering about appropriate PAN usage. I have a set of modules I'm working on on an almost daily basis. They are alpha's currently (the port from the working MySQL::Backup to DBA::Backup DBA::Backup::mysql). I talked about them at our local

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Sean Quinlan wrote: How do we mark uploads as a dev release? Can it be done after it's uploaded or is it something in the release before upload that indicates it (I browsed YAML .49_01 and didn't see anything)? The underscore in the filename is the flag. (Its right there

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# The following was supposedly scribed by # Ken Williams # on Thursday 11 November 2004 09:08 am: IMO if people are doing any sort of collaboration, you really should set up a centralized source that they can submit patches against, and keep up-to-the-minute track of what you're doing (like

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-11 Thread _brian_d_foy
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the To, Cc, and Newsgroups headers for details. ]] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:35, _brian_d_foy wrote: You can mark distributions as developer releases, upload as appropriate,

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-10 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:22, Chris Dolan wrote: I'm interested to hear what others say. IMO, uploading to CPAN more than once a week on a regular basis is too much. With mirror propagation time and caching of the module list in CPAN.pm itself, you should expect at least a day or more of

Re: CPAN question

2004-11-10 Thread _brian_d_foy
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the To, Cc, and Newsgroups headers for details. ]] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impulse is to regularly update the modules on CPAN, at least until we get a semi-functional beta in place. But I'm