Re: James Freeman's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-13 Thread James E Keenan
Fergal Daly wrote: Changing the subject from Keenan to Freeman (James Keenan is not MIA), Yes, the reports of my demise are quite premature. Ironically, today we had the first meeting of Perl Seminar NY's Phalanx Phoenix project (http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=586406), whose

Re: James Keenan's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:16, David Landgren wrote: Do we wait until someone else manifests a need to dust off one of them to hand over maintenance? Or do we forget about it until next time? If it's worth it, then I would volunteer. Actually I was

Re: James Freenan's (not Keenan's) other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:56, Adriano Ferreira wrote: For the record, James Keenan is an active developer (http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/). The modules in question were found in James Freeman's directory (http://search.cpan.org/~jfreeman/). Did anyone mention James Keenan? -- Andy Armstrong,

Re: James Freeman's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:58, Fergal Daly wrote: Changing the subject from Keenan to Freeman (James Keenan is not MIA), Ah - I didn't even read the subject :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: James Freeman's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread Fergal Daly
Changing the subject from Keenan to Freeman (James Keenan is not MIA), F On 12/01/07, Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:16, David Landgren wrote: Do we wait until someone else manifests a need to dust off one of them

Re: James Keenan's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 12, 2007, at 4:49 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote: I was also wondering whether - given that backpan exists so people can always find them if they really want them - there shouldn't be a mechanism for removing modules that are unloved and unused. How in the world could you determine

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 10 Jan 2007, at 04:07, Ken Williams wrote: Wow, that's the smoothest I've ever seen one of these transfers go. A useful module, an obviously deadbeat developer, an eager volunteer (and only one!), it's the perfect storm. I think the term 'deadbeat developer' might be a little harsh for

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 10 Jan 2007, at 11:27, Ovid wrote: Yes, that was the one I meant. It seemed like a major obstacle for this module. Well that works on an out of the box MP2 installation on my laptop here now. MP1 still works too fortunately :) If it's still supposed to be a drop in replacement for

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread Ovid
--- Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Jan 2007, at 04:07, Ken Williams wrote: Wow, that's the smoothest I've ever seen one of these transfers go. A useful module, an obviously deadbeat developer, an eager volunteer (and only one!), it's the perfect storm. I think the

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread David Landgren
Andy Armstrong did write: Once Ask or whoever gives me permissions the new release will appear in the index. For now it can be found here: http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/A/AN/ANDYA/CGI-Simple-0.078.tar.gz Ping brian d foy, but I imagine he's already watching this thread. DAvid

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 10 Jan 2007, at 17:32, David Landgren wrote: Andy Armstrong did write: Once Ask or whoever gives me permissions the new release will appear in the index. For now it can be found here: http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/A/AN/ANDYA/CGI- Simple-0.078.tar.gz Ping brian d foy, but I

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Williams
On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Ovid wrote: --- Andy Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Jan 2007, at 04:07, Ken Williams wrote: Wow, that's the smoothest I've ever seen one of these transfers go. A useful module, an obviously deadbeat developer, an eager volunteer (and only one!), it's

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 9 Jan 2007, at 10:13, Ovid wrote: I'm not particularly keen on taking over this distribution, but he's not fixing this bug or even responding. He also notes that Perl is a fond corner of [his] past, suggesting that unless someone snags CGI::Simple, this very popular (and useful!) module will

Re: CGI::Simple

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 9 Jan 2007, at 10:13, Ovid wrote: Has anyone heard from James Freeman, the maintainer of CGI::Simple (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cgi-Simple/)? It's not been updated in a couple of years, the outstanding bugs appear to mostly be related to the same issue, and I tried emailing him about this