Re: [RANT] Should we try to keep compatibility with old perl5s?

2018-08-12 Thread Arthur Corliss
for not wanting to take on the extra maintenance efforts. At the same time, said dev shouldn't be surprised if wider use of the same contributions are limited until the broader community catches up. Do what you want, dude. We might not all make the same decisions, but we all get it. --Arthur

Re: [cpan-questions #32443] Re: rt.cpan.org keeps logging me out.

2016-11-22 Thread Arthur Corliss
r you want a plugin to bypass the normal browser key store? Maybe I'm overthinking this. But, then, I don't trust browsers to begin with. I don't want them maintaining any kind of state for me over any significant length of time. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Top level name proposal - ComputeCluster

2014-09-05 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, James E Keenan wrote: Could that be shortened to simply: Cluster ? If this happens I'm claiming Cluster::Fu... well, I think you know where I'm going with this ;-) --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Kevin Johnson

2013-12-14 Thread Arthur Corliss
if this guy ever popped up again? The address info listed on his profile doesn't seem to be valid. I'd like to get in touch with him in regards to Net::ICAP. http://search.cpan.org/~kjohnson/ I appreciate your time, and any tips you may have. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2013-12-03 Thread Arthur Corliss
Internet again, with none of the normal human cues to aid us. A more conciliary tone would have helped. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: How to add your avatar to Google search results involving CPAN modules

2013-11-21 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, David Cantrell wrote: Both! I mostly prefer search.cpan.org because I'm used to it :-) which, I admit, isn't a very good reason. I'm in the same boat. I have yet to hear of any reason compelling enough to make me break old habits... --Arthur Corliss

Re: How to break apart a large distribution?

2011-10-18 Thread Arthur Corliss
manageable. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-09-11 Thread Arthur Corliss
. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-30 Thread Arthur Corliss
SSL-only for questionable gains. And I think my interjection was pretty fair, inoffensive, and good natured. But, maybe quietly lurking exposes my better side. :-) --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
of us who derive no benefit from it. Again: a resource like metacpan should aim for maximum accessibility... --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arthur Corliss
responsibility to exploit every bit of data you give them. With friends like Google protecting your information, who needs encryption? ;-) --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arthur Corliss
if the maintainers try to be a little less dogmatic about it. They should be inclined towards maximum accessibility, not maximum pedagoguery. I know I didn't get the memo but I think someone did claim that metacpan was the de facto interface these days... --Arthur Corliss Live Free

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arthur Corliss
beneficial? I wasn't going to get involved in this thread, but the Google bait was too spot on to ignore. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arthur Corliss
root certificate on all clients, and even then there's clients that that still won't work on. Never mind that the concept of spoofing external organization certificates is insanely dangerous in its own right. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Arthur Corliss wrote: snip Which brings to mind yet another point: for those of us providing content filtering services via proxies SSL is a huge problem. The only good solution is to do transparent interception of SSL connections with your proxies serving up a private

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-02 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:50, Arthur Corliss wrote: And my assertion has been that the excessive stats by the server are a bigger impediment to synchronization than the inode count. Well, then one of us don't understand how file systems etc work

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-01 Thread Arthur Corliss
not be disingenuous about the fact that we're abrogating our responsibilities as technologists by refusing to address the real problems and weaknesses of the platform. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-01 Thread Arthur Corliss
::Rsync::Mirror::Recent would help things. I'd support (and help) that goal. My objections are more properly directed to those stuck on just deleting files from the tree. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-01 Thread Arthur Corliss
on much smaller filesets which don't kill my servers. So far I haven't seen much openness by those actually affected by the problem in considering an alternative to rsync. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread Arthur Corliss
the list, but if they use a tool like PAUSE to upload the files, that shouldn't be hard to do). Agreed, but I'm not sure we've gotten past the stat storm on the server, though. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread Arthur Corliss
, so my understanding may be deficient), a decentralized distributed RCS. And have developers periodically merge their branches. Tough sell. It probably would solve a bunch of issues, but you're treading into vi versus emacs territory. ;-) --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
damage. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
, compile a list of new files to retrieve, and use the very common and low-overhead protocols to transfer the files... --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
. I'm not trying to be a dick (not intentionally, anyway), but isn't that basically making your problem BackPan's problem? --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
getting these last few days by our resident rsync fetishists. Very ironic. I use the hell out of rsync, just more discriminately that you guys, and yet I'm public enemy number one. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
. And rsync doesn't do that, it simulates that. Quite cleverly, but in an very expensive way which is borne by the server. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread Arthur Corliss
been a waste of time to argue the merits of rsync. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
are proposing will help. But not as much as simpler alternatives. Like replacing rsync with a perl script and modifying PAUSE to log the transactions. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
meritocracy, and tend towards an established aristocracy. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
it as what it was -- a dodge. You already have your minds made up and are not willing to evaluate options on their merits. Let's just be honest about what's going on here. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
on a pared down CPAN rsync is easily your most inefficient process on the server. If you're not willing to optimize that, then you really don't care about optimization at all. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-26 Thread Arthur Corliss
the mirroring process will provide greater gains for less effort. That's not to say that pursuing other efficiencies isn't worthwhile, just that you need to prioritize. But what the hell do I know. I don't run a *CPAN* mirror, so I must be freaking clueless... --Arthur Corliss

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-09 Thread Arthur Corliss
in a new magical combination of revisions that's going to break some code I need to just work. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-04 Thread Arthur Corliss
with the least number of moving parts. Let the guy introduce another framework. None of the existing frameworks are void of any sizeable Cons. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Arthur Corliss
friends. But let the rest of us move on with matters of some actual import. Quit trying to be the politically correct thought police of the world. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Arthur Corliss
quick! I've now wasted two e-mails on this subject. I may develop a rash. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Arthur Corliss
you'll also do key strengthening, similar to what most system authentication does. Hash with a salt, then hash the result with the salt, repeat a few thousand times. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Arthur Corliss
for the attackers. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Arthur Corliss
the Mersenne Twister (which is essentially what /dev/urandom does) Which was why included urandom as a suggestion. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Help needed testing security of login module

2009-05-20 Thread Arthur Corliss
to generate the hashes. Everything else is a separate issue. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: a lot of controversy about Module::Build

2009-04-09 Thread Arthur Corliss
you need to be conscious of what the installed base out there is using. I highly doubt the majority of Perl *users* (not developers) out there are as bleeding edge as yourselves. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: a lot of controversy about Module::Build

2009-04-09 Thread Arthur Corliss
. They and their opinions are important because they do things like influence which technologies their employers use, and consequently how many jobs there are for us. Amen. I bow to your more eloquent explanation. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: a lot of controversy about Module::Build

2009-04-08 Thread Arthur Corliss
. Not everyone is willing (and rightfully so) to install twenty other modules just to install and use the functionality of one. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Perl bug, or author bug?

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Arthur Corliss wrote: snip Turns out this is a unsigned int to signed int casting problem, not a 64-bit unclean problem. Legitimate bug in Perl, either way, and a patch should be submitted to the devs shortly. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Perl bug, or author bug?

2009-03-05 Thread Arthur Corliss
nobody /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/passwd:nobody:!:4294967294:4294967294::/: /etc/group:nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd Legitimate bug in Perl? This one is version 5.8.2, BTW. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Arthur Corliss
all of us to express stupid opinions safely. People that petty have far too much time on their hands. Just code, damn it. --Arthur Corliss Live Free or Die

Re: running tests

2004-04-02 Thread Arthur Corliss
it would work on all systems. I think a lot of us just use numeric prefixes to control the order: 01_ini.t 02_scalar.t 03_list.t ... etc. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ Live

Re: trouble with MakeMaker finding library

2004-03-31 Thread Arthur Corliss
for libraries, you'll need to add it to LIBS as well: LIBS = [-L$SGE_ROOT/lib/sol-sparc -ldrmaa, ...] --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live

Re: Namespace suggestions for new module submission (record-level transaction howto?)

2004-01-04 Thread Arthur Corliss
. I haven't used that module before, but I think I'll go download it and check it out. I can imagine a few uses for it. As to the semantics, I can't speak intelligently on that until I get a fuller feel of how the module will typically be used. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair

Re: Namespace suggestions for new module submission

2004-01-02 Thread Arthur Corliss
and implementation of the dbm libs they're linked against. This is just my way of getting predictable results without requiring admins to upgrade or install new system libs, along with the requisite Perl modules. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org

Namespace suggestions for new module submission

2004-01-01 Thread Arthur Corliss
did notice that most of the XS wrappers for C-based implementations were all in top-level namespace, though. Any suggestions/preferences? --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ Live

Re: Submitting a new module? (Linux::ForkControl)

2003-11-13 Thread Arthur Corliss
. As an addendum, I think it would be useful to be able to differentiate between CPU load and memory load, placing limits on both. --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ Live Free or Die

Re: RFC: SQL::ExportDB

2003-09-24 Thread Arthur Corliss
. ;-) --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/ Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/ Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live -- NH State Motto

Re: RFC: SQL::ExportDB

2003-09-24 Thread Arthur Corliss
there. As soon as we find a stretch of coastline that matches our eastern border we'll dock and revisit this discussion. I hear the fault lines in CA would be a good match if you'd hurry up and drop into the ocean. ;-) --Arthur Corliss Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org