Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-04-03 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:14:33PM -0600, Jacob Kenner wrote: On 22 Mar at 15:22 Ilya Zakharevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c) That whilst Perl supports CPAN, it's not mandatory (nor should it be). We should, however, support those who won't/can't use it. What for??? Do you also

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-04-03 Thread Jacob Kenner
On 22 Mar at 15:22 Ilya Zakharevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c) That whilst Perl supports CPAN, it's not mandatory (nor should it be). We should, however, support those who won't/can't use it. What for??? Do you also want to support people who won't/can't use modules with 'e' in the

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-22 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: 1) The PREREQ_PM facility informs the user of missing modules, but not where to find them. Not every module (in the Perl sense) comes in a module (in the CPAN sense) of the same name. Why should it? PREREQ_PM specifies

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-22 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:44:41AM +, Martyn J. Pearce wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: 1) The PREREQ_PM facility informs the user of missing modules, but not where to find them. Not every module (in the Perl sense) comes in a module (in the

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-08 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:41:29AM -0500, Jay Lawrence wrote: From: Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can specify package dependancies with MakeMaker, including version numbers of required packages. Surely that is enough information to build up necessary depends: relationships? The

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-07 Thread darren chamberlain
Quoting Kurt D. Starsinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 07, 2002 10:28]: On Mar 07, Sam Vilain wrote: Which reminds me. Is anyone working on a CPAN debian package archive? I remember Schwern making a joke about it after Ingy's plea for PPM help at YAPC last year. Did anything ever

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-07 Thread Kurt D. Starsinic
On Mar 07, darren chamberlain wrote: Quoting Kurt D. Starsinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 07, 2002 10:28]: On Mar 07, Sam Vilain wrote: Which reminds me. Is anyone working on a CPAN debian package archive? I remember Schwern making a joke about it after Ingy's plea for PPM help at

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-06 Thread Adekunle Olonoh
I've posted this about 6 months ago, but got no feedback. I guess I'll just go ahead and release the module. I don't remember the previous post, but I'll answer now I've attached a new module (very small) called CPAN::Grab. This is a really great idea. I could've used something like

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Lehr
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Adekunle Olonoh wrote: I've attached a new module (very small) called CPAN::Grab. This is a really great idea. I could've used something like this not too long ago. This could be very useful. - Should MakeMaker be aware of it? I think

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-06 Thread Ken Williams
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 11:48 AM, Stas Bekman wrote: The real problems with prerequisites are: - some modules don't specify prerequisites :( But I think we can add code to parse the code to figure out simple require and use cases. Weren't there a module doing this? I think I read

Re: repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Lehr
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Adekunle Olonoh wrote: I've attached a new module (very small) called CPAN::Grab. This is a really great idea. I could've used something like this not too long ago. This could be very useful. - Should MakeMaker be aware of it? I think

repost: RFC: CPAN::Grab

2002-03-05 Thread Stas Bekman
I've posted this about 6 months ago, but got no feedback. I guess I'll just go ahead and release the module. Original Message Subject: RFC: CPAN::Grab Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:28:02 +0800 (SGT) From: Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Andreas J. Koenig