RE: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Barbie
On 07 April 2005 23:02 Ken Williams wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names

Re: Namespace Advice

2005-04-08 Thread Reinhard Pagitsch
Hello Chris, Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Reinhard Pagitsch wrote: I would suggest now to name the module Win32::Storage::ReadSummaryInfo. I like this better than before, but why not Win32::Document::SummaryInfo? Because not only MS documents can be read? There is also the

Re: Namespace Advice

2005-04-08 Thread Reinhard Pagitsch
Hello Chris, Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Reinhard Pagitsch wrote: Hello Chris, Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Reinhard Pagitsch wrote: I would suggest now to name the module Win32::Storage::ReadSummaryInfo. I like this better than before, but why not

Re: Removal of old versions of modules can break FreeBSD ports

2005-04-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:08:51AM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Ken Williams wrote: Agreed - for providing a stable download link of a CPAN package, backpan is better than CPAN itself. If this could be integrated into the BSD system itself that would be great. -Ken Hi, as a

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
Chris Dolan wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Is there a way tests to determine that a module cannot be installed on a platform so that CPANPLUS or CPAN::YACSmoke can issue an NA (Not Applicable) report? CPANPLUS relies on module names (e.g. Solaris:: or Win32::) but

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
David Cantrell wrote: Let's take my module File::Find::Rule::Permissions as an example. I know it doesn't work on Windows, but not having access to a Windows machine, I have *no idea* what $^O should be on that platform, especially for any odd Windows environments like Cygwin or WinCE. I

Probing requirements (was: Re: Some ideas)

2005-04-08 Thread Randy W. Sims
Robert Rothenberg wrote: I'm all for something like this, though I prefer requires_libraries instead. (Listing libraries distinct from applications is a grey area, so best to put them under one term.) Come to think of it, why not recommends_libraries too? What is needed is some standard set of

PHP Module Name

2005-04-08 Thread David Wheeler
Hi All, We're working on a new module that will allow the following: * Ability to load a PHP interpreter from Perl and use it to execute PHP code. * The PHP interpreter will be able to reach back into Perl to use data, modules, etc. * Yes, this means that PHP folks will be able to use DBI and

Re: PHP Module Name

2005-04-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Apr 8, 2005, at 5:57 PM, David Wheeler wrote: So, other module names we've come up with include: Embed::PHP Interp::PHP Thoughts? Suggestions? You don't want to use the Inline::PHP namespace? -Ken

Re: PHP Module Name

2005-04-08 Thread Ken Williams
On Apr 8, 2005, at 5:57 PM, David Wheeler wrote: Anyway, we need a name for this module. The working name is PHP::Sandwich, but that's a bit cutesy. The PHP namespace is already taken, which is too bad, because it'd be nice to be able to just do: my $php = PHP-new; $php-execute($code); Wait

Re: PHP Module Name

2005-04-08 Thread David Wheeler
On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Ken Williams wrote: You don't want to use the Inline::PHP namespace? No, it's not inline PHP, AFACT. Wait a sec - it looks like the PHP namespace is already taken by a module that does essentially what you're trying to do. Can you just work with Dmitry on what it

Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread Robert Rothenberg
Same here. On 08/04/2005 20:02 Ken Williams wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: die NA: $reason; Since, at the moment, we're having trouble putting together a system to cover the possible reasons for an NA report let the module author figure it out. Its simple and

Re: Probing requirements (was: Re: Some ideas)

2005-04-08 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probe::OS - Gather info on the operating system Probe::Libs Probe::Progs Probe::FileSys - maybe incorporate ideas Schwern posted on p5p recently, Perhaps we can put this under a namespace like Config:: ? I imagine that

Re: PHP Module Name

2005-04-08 Thread Andy Lester
I don't know. The developers working with me on the project say that it needs to be something different...George? PHP::Something is far better than Something::PHP for what you're talking about. The PHP::* space is filled with lots of PHP crossover already. How about PHP::Crossover? xoxo, Andy