Re: A funny module that shortens one-liners - is it worth global namespace?

2017-01-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> [2017-01-09 01:42]: > * Konstantin S. Uvarin <khe...@gmail.com> [2016-12-27 11:24]: > > perl -Mnew=x=My::Very::Long::Module,foo,42 -we "print $x->foo;" > > perl -Maliased=My::Very::Long::Module,X -we 'print X->

Re: A funny module that shortens one-liners - is it worth global namespace?

2017-01-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
that line was supposed to be doing. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Sanity checking for namespace and other abuses

2016-10-27 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
want to use these packages. (Which doesn’t have to be a CPAN module, it can also be some would-be user’s already-existing code base.) It will be uglier to namespace your stuff more; bite that bullet. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name

2016-09-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
s? Sounds like Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey would be separate but the others would ship together. If so, then one should probably be a sub-namespace of the other. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Dilemma for XML::MyXML

2016-07-04 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
ole document they always get bytes. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: A question of permissions

2016-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
fuss of it myself on behalf of Neil without asking him, and to leave it to Neil whether he wanted the point addressed. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Perl Modules in GitHub

2016-03-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
se. But note that you cannot turn off pull requests at the time of this writing. So in practice modules maintained under a personal account are not that problematic. The only serious problem is in case the maintainer got run over by a bus and nobody else can log into their GitHub account. Regards, --

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
; So, please, do not remove META. Nobody is talking about dropping META entirely. The question is whether a META.yml is necessary in addition to META.json. Does dh-make-perl need META.yml specifically or can it just as well use META.json? (I would hope it can…) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, but figuring out when you need it and when not is a hassle, > and actually declaring a minimum EUMM version (even if it's an ancient > one) is generally considered good practice. Also I think some > packagers may be using it. So what does that mean for John’s original question? -- A

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
out of the box. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Naming help needed for evil @INC hackery

2015-10-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
ort; unshift @INC, @hook; }; Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Trying to come up with a name for a DTrace Consumer XS module

2015-07-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
modules, and that did turn up another alternative: those are split between Devel:: (again) and Sys::. Oh right, d’oh. That seems like a pretty good choice. How does Sys::DTrace::Consumer sound? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: good form for discontinuing a module

2015-06-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it become unlikely to be found by undirected search.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Seeking a suitable forum to discuss Scalar/List::Util

2015-05-14 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
sign up for that too. So whatever is all fine with me, I don’t care. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-04 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
value is supposed to be just a string, you should surround it with \Q and \E. FTFY. It’s not just paths. (You don’t need to quotemeta *every* time of course – but you *should* reflexively stop and consider *whether* you need it, every time.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: name for a module that parces and compiles micro assembly language (MAL) into Mic-1 microinstructions.

2015-01-15 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
in cursory search. Seems a decent enough name. So, CPU::Mic1::Assembler? With “MAL” mentioned in the abstract so a CPAN search will find it? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Paging Andreas König… [was: throw away module namespace]

2014-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
release until you have settled the namespace question. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Module name advice

2014-09-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ben Deutsch b...@bendeutsch.de [2014-09-18 20:20]: Text::Template::LocalVars FWIW, that was going to be my suggestion too. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: naming a new module

2014-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
squatted on the preferable term, so it’s still yours for the grabbing. So, congratulations on your shiny new Net::Domain::PublicSuffix module. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Aliens depending on Aliens

2014-01-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to be brittle: if you are shipping a tarball of the alien or downloading a particular of it version during *.PL, you know exactly what’s in the tarball, so you know exactly what your patch code will do. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Aliens depending on Aliens

2014-01-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to tweak the environment to taste. Not sure which one would be the less leaky abstraction.) -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Best way to communicate changing the output of a module

2013-12-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Yanick Champoux yan...@babyl.dyndns.org [2013-12-22 20:35]: Perhaps a saner middle-ground could be of introducing a new environment variable CPAN_NO_MAJOR_JUMP. Or just warn instead of dying. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2013-12-12 20:40]: On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:38:46AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org [2013-12-04 15:30]: Well, git rebase did not work properly (too many silly merge commits for stuff that predates my

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
thing that can happen is that the user lacks the experience to understand the state they put Git into, and how to change it (back, or in any other direction) – but not actual data loss. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Then a few `git rm -f META.yml git rebase --continue` later you’d’ve gotten what I think is just what’s in your pull request. -- git commit -m 'Just another Git hacker,' #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Problem naming a module

2013-11-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* it to the whole kit and caboodle, the name becomes ludicrous. So I left it out. So that’s the best I could do. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Unclear as to problem: Tried to register 'Types', but says can't due to unrelated module.

2013-11-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
be thought of yourself by someone else? -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Unclear as to problem: Tried to register 'Types', but says can't due to unrelated module.

2013-11-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Jperl is bad name -;

2013-10-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Jperl is bad name -;

2013-10-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jean-Damien Durand jeandamiendur...@free.fr [2013-10-30 01:00]: I liked - JavaScript::Transpile for its explicit namespace and play on words translate/compile (that's my interpretation, Aristotle) Not my coinage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpiler -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Please takeover HTML::Element::Library

2013-08-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/blob/master/lancaster-consensus.md#flagging-abandoned-modules-and-modules-requesting-help [1]: https://metacpan.org/author/ADOPTME -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Please takeover HTML::Element::Library

2013-08-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2013-08-22 04:23]: [1]: https://metacpan.org/author/ADOPTME Hmm, http://search.cpan.org/~adoptme/ seems better for this case… -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Proposal For A Module To Generate Regular Expressions

2013-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
this Regexp::Builder. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Alien::XXX needs something more

2013-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
one. (Alien::NotVMS::FooBar?) -- *AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/..([^:]*)$/()[print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]]/e;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: potentially GD::Image::Filter::Simple ??

2013-07-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
themselves.) I don’t follow. Do you mean they should get a GD::Image that has methods for both algorithms, or something along these lines? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Naming/API for async-capable webservices modules

2013-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk [2013-05-27 01:35]: On Sat, 25 May 2013 08:52:30 +0200 Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: That’s just what futures are for, I think? As in, they abstract the sync/async control flow out of the code. And you’re just putting that on top

Re: Naming/API for async-capable webservices modules

2013-05-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
emphasise futures rather than IO::Async, natch. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net [2013-05-11 06:30]: I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_adopt_module

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-02-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
/::([^:]*)$/print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]/e;chop;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-01-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
modules within a distribution is a non- obvious precondition for dependency resolution to work 100% reliably in all edge cases. I have notes for an article about it flying around here somewhere that I should really get around to writing and publishing. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-11-23 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Text::TemplateLite syntax, was Re: Please help me name my text template module...

2012-11-15 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
syntax has the benefit of being easily balance-checkable in an editor such as vim. “Non-programmers” “an editor such as vim”. I see. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: module name for a tutorial or example or sample module

2012-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it means “this is stupid or crazy but in any case inadvisable, yet still funny or cool, and I wanted to put it out there for people to look at”. And your code would clearly be out of place in such a category. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Continued life of my GitPan fork

2012-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it comes down to a GitHub question (how do I dissociate a fork from its original repository). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: XML-LibXML's 2.* Versioning Scheme: Please Advise.

2012-06-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
date-based versions, of course, and thus a major attraction, but you do retain the same information they provide (save for the exact age in days, which is meaninglessly precise in the grand scheme of things). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Module naming: postifx/dovecot/MySQL configuration

2011-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
just mentioned vpopmail. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Brandon Fosdick bfosd...@gmail.com [2011-11-21 06:30]: Escheat is a common law doctrine which transfers the property of a person who dies without heirs to the crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in limbo without recognised ownership. That seems morbid, considering

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
a promise to maintain the module, which is not the point. OwnershipCovenant is probably the most accurate, but ugh… Anyway, I’ll put the brush aside. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The module authors pledge

2011-11-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* yan...@babyl.dyndns.org yan...@babyl.dyndns.org [2011-11-11 22:30]: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:27:04PM +, Neil Bowers wrote: I think this would still have to be a mechanism that an author has to sign up to, rather than it automatically being applied. Considering the nature of CPAN, I

Re: New module naming

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Trystan trysta...@gmail.com [2011-11-06 23:30]: I found this idea in Head First OOADhttp://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfooad/, chapter 5. It's somewhat like a very simple version of Key-Value

Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
documentation to ridiculous commentary like this. Dig deep and you can probably figure it out. A lot of them are ignored. A lot of them are not. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Politics Personalities - was Re: New module naming

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
and valuable contributions being totally ignored because their ideas are not popular. I *thought* that we had gone beyond this petty stuff. Clearly I was was wrong. Pot, kettle. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Bob Parker b...@perldevgeek.com [2011-11-08 00:30]: Clearly you are another fanboy of Shlomi's. You found me out. I am two days short of proposing gay marriage to him. * Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2011-11-07 23:50]: * sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com [2011-11-07 12:40

Re: Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Starting a module's history from gitpan

2011-10-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. And with git, keeping that extra history around takes no space to speak of. I don’t really see the point of *not* doing it, considering how little effort it takes with the tools we have nowadays. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Starting a module's history from gitpan

2011-10-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
your a new repo on Github, and then switching the `origin` URL of your clone to your own repo URL and pushing it. and that might somehow have negative side-effects. Nah. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
make such companies better: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2006/02/choosing-sides_27.html http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000938.html Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
remember off hand, so that nobody is using it in anger). But more generally your point is a good one. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org [2011-07-29 13:25]: One reason I have not converted wholesale to metacpan is because it redirects all http:// requests to https:// . Very annoying. http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html In January this year (2010), Gmail

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Arthur Corliss corl...@digitalmages.com [2011-08-28 19:55]: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been

Module::Build::Tiny

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
be interested in whether any omissions mentioned in the POD are design choices or the idea is to add them in the future, and which if so.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. And note that distributions which ship packages for CPAN modules are effectively already doing exactly that. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il [2010-11-24 21:05]: Welcome to 2010. There are two kinds of fool. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, “This is new, and therefore better.” —John Brunner Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
with very large bundled data files so one might as well use it for them since the support exists. I just don’t want to see a campaign against gzip. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
until the work trickles out far enough that people could start relying on it. For quite piddly gains, in absolute numbers. I really don’t see the point. Gzip is Good Enough. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Looking for a name(-space)

2010-10-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
for modules with narrower focus. So I would pick some name in Schedule:: that captures the mission statement for your module, especially as distinct from the other modules that already exist. Eg. something like AdaptiveThrottler (if I skimmed your POD right). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl [2010-09-13 08:05]: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de writes: You don’t want to reach inside an object just because it happens to be hash-based. Interesting. For Getopt::Long (that can take an optional hashref as its first argument) I got explicit

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com [2010-09-10 14:30]: On 10-09-10 03:02 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: sub foo { my $self = shift; my $self = shift @_; Always put the array in the shift. Why? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
.” Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-09-10 08:20]: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de I would write that my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; :-) (To my way of thinking, the invocant is not a positional argument, so I always pull it out

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
version that didn't match what you created it with. That way lies madness. Good point. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com [2010-08-09 06:15]: I'd feel much better suggesting you consider streaming with YAML or JSON or something hand-rolled but anything but Storable. I would strike YAML from that list as well. Whereas JSON is great. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-9 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
/::([^:]*)$/print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]/e;chop;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Roles on the CPAN

2010-08-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
TraitFor, or else just appending Role. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: CPAN Testers, and {build,test}_requires.

2010-05-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2010-05-11 15:40]: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net [2010-05-11 05:00]: Also, the approach Dist::Zilla takes with the 'configure_requires' and 'build_requires' keys is to remove

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
selection key would at least preclude the need parse. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
} for %{mode}ing: %{errno}', }, ); You’d use that like so: open my $fh, '', $filename or throw_io_open file = $filename, mode = 'read', errno = $!; Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
is that you want to avoid a situation where catching code has to parse the error message. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
serious reason against this? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
rsync to feed an SQLite database that drives an FTP transfer? Could you even possibly come up with a more Rube-Goldbergian construction? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Q about prerequisites

2010-03-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of these, really. There should really be a `test_requires`. However, in absence of that option, what remains to be said is that both `configure_requires` and `requires` are more wrong than `build_requires`, so that’s what you should pick for now. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Prerequistie for Marpa::HTML

2010-03-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of a mystery. Hmm. (Nevertheless, your solution is the correct thing to do, so don’t go reverting it.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Prerequistie for Marpa::HTML

2010-03-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of the cpantesters setups. No. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-03-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
operate on user input directly, and the operation can blow up, you can leave that input unchecked for the purposes of error reporting. (You might of course still want to check it for other reasons, eg. security. That’s a different matter.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)

2010-02-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-targetted spam every… 1.5 years or so? I guess we’re doing OK, all things considered. But as I said, it’s a familiar scene nonetheless. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Can't cpan WWW::Mechanize

2010-01-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: satiating cpantesters

2010-01-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. The program succeeded. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

SQLite concurrency [was: Writing tests]

2009-12-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
multiple processes to operate on the same database file concurrently. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: bug in Net::Cmd/how to do pop3s for gmail

2009-11-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
would have to be adopted ecosystem-wide. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: flame bait: execution speed Perl vs. C (Date::Calc::PP vs. Date::Calc::XS)

2009-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* O. STeffen BEYer ost...@gmail.com [2009-11-18 13:10]: One can see from these results that the XS version quite consistently runs approximately about 15 times faster than the PP version. This is flame bait? Why is this flame bait? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: flame bait: execution speed Perl vs. C (Date::Calc::PP vs. Date::Calc::XS)

2009-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
any time soon. Bah.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: naming advice required

2009-11-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
problematic. Because ultimately what matters is that things be findable by sticking the obvious keywords into search.cpan.org. Github::Fork::Parent is quite acceptable by that criterion. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

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