Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:59:26PM +0100, Dave Cardwell wrote: Please could you advise what the ?preferred? build module(s) are nowadays, when releasing to CPAN? I don?t have any particular requirements as it?s a simple module, but I?m unsure which of Module::Install, Module::Build,

Re: Module Namespace for External API Wrappers

2010-07-06 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Dave Cardwell # on Saturday 03 July 2010 05:09: I’ve written a module that wraps the notifo.com API ... I’m leaning towards WebService::Notifo, but would appreciate your advice if you would suggest otherwise. WWW::Notifo::API or (Assuming that it's a REST API) maybe REST::Notifo::API?

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Dave Cardwell list+perl-module-auth...@davecardwell.co.uklist%2bperl-module-auth...@davecardwell.co.uk wrote: Please could you advise what the “preferred” build module(s) are nowadays, when releasing to CPAN? Congratulations on releasing to CPAN! :P A

Re: Module Namespace for External API Wrappers

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:28:04AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Dave Cardwell # on Saturday 03 July 2010 05:09: I’ve written a module that wraps the notifo.com API ... I’m leaning towards WebService::Notifo, but would appreciate your advice if you would suggest otherwise.

Re: Advice for Module Namspace (Net::CLI vs CLI ...)

2010-07-06 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth ludovicostev...@free.fr (Ludovico Stevens): I have recently registered on PAUSE and have a module to upload to CPAN; I need some advice on the Name Space to use. I work with Ethernet switches routers and I use Perl scripts to automate tasks via the CLI (Command Line Interface).

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell # on Monday 05 July 2010 06:31: consider Module::Build, but be aware that for a great many users it will introduce an extra dependency, as it was not in core until 5.10.0. First, the great many is shrinking quickly, at least if Debian's oldstable is any indicator of what

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Jul 4, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Jonathan Yu wrote: Hi Dave, I am one of the people who package Perl modules for Debian, and we frequently see all of the above - Module::Install, Module::Build, ExtUtils::MakeMaker and now Dist::Zilla. As ExtUtils::MakeMaker is now considered deprecated, I

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On Tue, July 6, 2010 1:39 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: IMO, preferring core modules is like using the same size bolt for *every* part of a car (from dashboard to engine mounts) simply because (despite having a full complement of welding, cutting, and forming tools), the drill press just happened

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote: Just so you know, AFAIK: 1. ExtUtils::MakeMaker (EU::MM) is not dead and will shortly be under new management. EU::MM is still being used for current and new modules. 2. Dist::Zilla is a packaging tool, not an installer.

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread Joshua ben Jore
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: # from David Cantrell # on Monday 05 July 2010 06:31: consider Module::Build, but be aware that for a great many users it will introduce an extra dependency, as it was not in core until 5.10.0. First, the great many is

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, even the most up-to-date CPAN.pm comes broken out of the box for configure_requires because we say we prefer the YAML module to read the configure_requires out of $whatever.yml and don't fail-over to use the thing