Re: Enabling all MY methods of the same name in multiple modules

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 8:57 AM David Christensen wrote: > module-authors: > > I have extended EUMM in a Perl distribution by implementing a module > that overrides various methods in the "MY" package namespace and by > using that MY override module in Makefile.PL, per "Overriding MakeMaker >

Re: How to do co-maintenance on CPAN distro which uses Dist::Zilla(Travis and other questions)

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 3:39 AM James E Keenan wrote: > I managed to get an Appveyor configuration, but the build stopped when > it couldn't locate a prereq needed only on Windows. I decided to defer > all work on Windows (which I don't have access to) until a later date. > > > 3. Assume that I

Re: Perl Modules in GitHub

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > I maintain server Perl modules on CPAN: > http://search.cpan.org/~jdhedden/ Some of the modules are part of the > core Perl distribution; some are my own. I want to add them to GitHub. Is > there preferred

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:26 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:16:02AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > > If it's not a requirement, then people are going to get sloppy with it, > > meaning sometimes it will break other people's code. > > Supporting

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Dominique Dumont <domi.dum...@free.fr> wrote: > Le samedi 10 octobre 2015, 15:45:38 15:45:38 Leon Timmermans a écrit : > > Also I think some packagers may be using it. > > Debian uses the information from META to create and refresh Perl packa

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > Hi John, > > * John M Gamble [2015-10-06 20:25]: > > What with META.json being generated (and presumably used) in our CPAN > > uploads, is it necessary to include META.yml anymore? A brief search >

Re: autodie was not installed on http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6109ee1e-63a7-11e5-80f8-24112cde3c15

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi, Leon! > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:28:20 +0200 > Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org&g

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Neil Bowers neil.bow...@cogendo.com wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: Random musings from #perl on Freenode: If I write a base module that's intended for expansion/extension (such as Tickit), and then write lots and lots of extensions (see: the entire Tickit::Widget::

Re: Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:44 PM, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote: This weekend I gave my CPAN library CPAN-Mini-Visit-Simple an overhaul, a large part of which was guaranteeing that CPAN Testers handled the absence of a minicpan gracefully. As a result, for the first time I'm getting

Re: How avert warning re MYMETA.* ?

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:17 AM, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote: When I am working on an update to a CPAN distribution, I say make clean, then create the Makefile in the customary way -- but I get a warning about files missing from my kit. # $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your

Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCCPerl

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:11 PM, bulk88 bul...@hotmail.com wrote: Module::Build tests for and forbids overriding Config (related report http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=987651 ), Module::Build probably has better support for overriding Config than MakeMaker, it's just opinionated on how you

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

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Shmuel Fomberg shmuelfomb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Stephen. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Patterson wrote: I'm the maintainer of Finance::Bank::CooperativeUKPersonal, a module for downloading UK bank statements. Part of the output from this module

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

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Linda W perl-didd...@tlinx.org wrote: On 2013-11-13 07:30, David Cantrell wrote: Ah-- NetIcal1.11 doesn't have it.. but if I try Types by itself, it downloads Netical 1.15 The indexing system is broken, IMO... I see Types: cp lib/Net/ICal/Parser.pm

Re: Problem brewing w/tar?

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Linda A. Walsh perl-didd...@tlinx.orgwrote: Too bad Archive::Tar isn't up-to-date with a 10+year old standard. http://xkcd.com/927/ Leon

Re: How to specify a pre-req?

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Linda W perl-didd...@tlinx.org wrote: I am trying to specify a pre-req that needs to be present for my module to work. I have it under the PREREQ_PM section next in my Makefile.PL as well as under the BUILD_REQUIRES section. I'm not sure I specified the

Re: Name for an A/B testing module?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com wrote: I've written an A/B testing module for Perl, but I suspect the name Test::AB will annoy people since people expect modules in the Test:: namespace to be about traditional testing tools (exporting test functions

Re: Conditional installation of XS (or graceful fallback)

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:20 AM, David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 da...@cpan.org wrote: how to cause an install of List::BinarySearch to attempt to download and install List::BinarySearch::XS (a separate distribution) Include the

Re: cpan as generic installer? + Re: module for finding all git repos under a path

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Matthew Astley m...@sanger.ac.uk wrote: Now I have another script to add to my grubby collection, which I cast as a modulino. It should probably go in CPAN. Maybe I should fatpack it into git-yacontrib? It languishes on a private branch. I don't see why

Re: Alien::XXX needs something more

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, that’ll work great until the moment someone supports three OSes. Or supports all OSes except a specific one. (Alien::NotVMS::FooBar?) Or only recent versions of an OS… Leon

Re: Alien::XXX needs something more

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Paul LeoNerd leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: Having a look more in detail at why, though, is revealing: For example: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/754b7df1-6c93-1014-b350-ae488c0ce015 gives: # running Build.PL 'make' is not recognized as an

Re: META.yml/json and requiring itself for testing (CPAN.pm, Dist::Zilla)

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Serguei Trouchelle s...@cpan.org wrote: I was tried to install my own module (Dist::Zilla-based, more than a year old) on brand new 5.18.0 with all recent modules. CPAN shell (CPAN.pm 2.0) refused to build it, complaining about circular dependency. The problem

Re: Dist::Zilla version handling

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com wrote: How do I assert the Perl version I want with Dist::Zilla? I can't find it in http://dzil.org/tutorial/ and when I tried the MinimumPerl plugin, it said my minimum version is 5.12 when I believe it to be 5.10.0.

Re: Unauthorizated release

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Xavier x.guim...@free.fr wrote: I've upload development version of LemonLDAP::NG libraries, but they are displayed as unauthorizated release even if modules are registered by me. Any idea ? As can be seen at

Re: DB_File is not installed?

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Fomberg shmuelfomb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. I've released a module, Dist::Surveyor v0.007, and seeing reports from CPAN testers that DB_File doesn't exists. DB_File is not listed in the deps, because, well, it is core.

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:59 PM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote: No, I can't. Acme:: is people sharing jokes, which in most cases aren't supposed to be useful, they're JOKES. Author::PAUSEID, Task::BeLike::PAUSEID and Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::PAUSEID are by people *not* sharing *anything*

Re: Broken compilers, ignore or ???

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Martin J. Evans martin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote: Thanks, I did not know that. Klortho #11907 ;-)

Re: Broken compilers, ignore or ???

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Martin J. Evans martin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote: I recently received an rt (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79190) saying some code in DBD::ODBC was wrong and a patch to fix it. The code was: while (*cp != '\0') { *cp++ = toupper(*cp); }

Re: How do I arrange for Makefile.PL to create a modulino instance script?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: module-authors: I am working on a modulino [1] and would like to use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate a Makefile such that make (or make all) copies the module file (lib/MyModulino.pm) to a script file

Re: MIN_PERL_VErSION

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: So, what am I doing wrong? FWIW, the problem that gives rise to this question g++ ... TagLib.c In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_ios.h:44, from /usr/include/c++/4.2/ios:50,

Re: Seeking advice on module name: Config::CPP?

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:49 PM, David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com wrote: I maintain Inline::CPP.  Currently that module's Makefile.PL jumps through a bunch of hoops to detect the C++ compiler most compatible with the C compiler that built perl, and to detect what default C++ libraries should

Re: The module authors pledge

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Neil Bowers n...@bowers.com wrote: One of the problems I see with CPAN is that there are many modules which have been left unattended. Many of these have outstanding bugs, and a good number have patches and forked versions, some of which you can find on RT.

Re: The module authors pledge

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 da...@cpan.org wrote: Metadata can already be attached to distributions in an extensible fashion. It's really about the code, not the author/maintainer - one can have different opinions on/policies for different distros. True, though most of

Re: How to break apart a large distribution?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Fields, Christopher J cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: The BioPerl core developers (including myself) have decided to work on breaking up the huge code base into separate distributions on CPAN, using dependencies to install only the needed modules (something WAY

Re: Math::BigInt inheritance problems

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Paul Bennett paul.w.benn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know this isn't the best place to ask for help with specific coding help, but I'm bumping up against what appears to be the edges of Perl normality here, and I figure there's gotta be at least one person

Re: Math::BigInt inheritance problems

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Paul Bennett paul.w.benn...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, but an IP address *is* really a number. An unsigned 128-bit integer, in fact, with some additional properties that are specific to the semantics of IP addresses themselves. Do you really want your end users to

Re: Module::Build::Tiny

If you're using Dist::Zilla, you *should* not need anything besides META.json to install a simple module if you just set dynamic_config=0. (This should is, of course, largely unimplemented.) I hope a lot of Module::Built::Tiny will end up getting reused for that purpose. Overall, it looks

Re: Module::Build::Tiny

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: I find this module intriguing. I'm happy to hear that :-) In my understanding, the complexity of Module::Build piled up because the same tool tries to cover both installation and authoring use cases. There are many