what's a good name for a pure-perl OnScopeExit mechanism?

2010-03-31 Thread David Nicol
local_onExit is how it is now http://davidnicol.diaryland.com/onExit.html The semantics should be exactly the same as Scope::OnExit, but the syntax is somewhat convoluted, abusing the Clocal mechanism as it does. Scope::OnExit::PurePerl would seem to imply the same syntax, which would be

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:08:57PM +0200, Rene Schickbauer wrote: Now, if we where to put all files into mercurial, git or the like, renaming the files so they don't have version numbers in their names but storing them sequentially as commits so new versions update old ones. Sort of like

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Rene Schickbauer
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:08:57PM +0200, Rene Schickbauer wrote: Now, if we where to put all files into mercurial, git or the like, renaming the files so they don't have version numbers in their names but storing them sequentially as commits so new versions update old

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Rene Schickbauer
David Nicol wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Elaine Ashton eash...@mac.com wrote: On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Randy Kobes wrote: Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been considered? Not specifically, no, at least not that I'm aware of. That would have

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Dana Hudes
Arthur your ignorance is apalling Go look at what ORCA does SAR doesn't give you the info With ORCA i have any thing from kstat or iostat. It goes into roundrobin database with rrdtool. Procallaotr does for linux what orcallator does for solaris where it is the standard performance toool

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Kennedy
I've said nothing till now, because I figured more noise wouldn't help much. But I quite like the rsync daemon/proxy idea, and as it so happens I'm attending the OzLabs Unconference in 3 weeks time to hang out with Tridge, Rusty and the other Australia C/Kernel/Samba/RSync elites. So I'd be

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:03:51PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: I've said nothing till now, because I figured more noise wouldn't help much. But I quite like the rsync daemon/proxy idea, and as it so happens I'm attending the OzLabs Unconference in 3 weeks time to hang out with Tridge, Rusty

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-31 Thread David Nicol
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:45 AM, David Landgren da...@landgren.net wrote: On 31/03/2010 06:52, David Nicol wrote: new proposal: Make modules pay rent in order to remain on a mirror. Rent could be in the form of actual user interest, or good reviews. Use as a dependency could count as rent.

Re: Tidy up your PAUSE directories

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Rene Schickbauer wrote: brian d foy wrote: It's time for Spring cleaning again. If you have ancient versions of modules sitting around in your PAUSE directory, consider letting them retire to BackPAN (http://backpan.cpan.org). They don't disappear from