Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:56:39PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: ___ / _ \ | | | |_ _ | |_| ||\ | ||___ \___/ | \| |___ |___ upon a time, the Perl 5 modules list was an excellent resource for those seeking to do anything non-core with Perl. However, it has

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those modules that are not on the Module List, (i.e., not in http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz) and which have a 'significant' existing user base, develop a Fast Track process to get them added to the Module List. Good idea, but don't we

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-15 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 13:57 +0100 2/15/04, Johan Vromans wrote: Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those modules that are not on the Module List, (i.e., not in http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz) and which have a 'significant' existing user base, develop a Fast Track process to get them added

pure perl Zlib

2004-02-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
Ton Hospel has written a pure perl implementation of gunzip. (no mean feat) Autrijus sent to the PAR list and asked if anyone could refactor it to emulate Compress::Zlib's interface sufficiently to allow Archive::Zip (and therefore PAR) to work with it (to unpack zip files). It seems that the only

Module lists: defining the problem, restating the goals [was Re: OK, so we've decided...]

2004-02-15 Thread Sam Vilain
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:32, Tim Bunce wrote; I'd like to see a summary of what those needs of the community are. (Maybe I missed it as I've not been following as closely as I'd have liked. In which case a link to an archived summary would be great.) It's very important to be clear

Re: pure perl Zlib

2004-02-15 Thread Sam Vilain
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:19, Nicholas Clark wrote; Autrijus suggested Compress::Zlib::PurePerl, which I think is reasonable. ...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip? -- Sam Vilain, sam /\T vilain |T net, PGP key ID: 0x05B52F13 (include my PGP key ID in personal replies to avoid

Re: pure perl Zlib

2004-02-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:43:27AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:19, Nicholas Clark wrote; Autrijus suggested Compress::Zlib::PurePerl, which I think is reasonable. ...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip? But it doesn't compress. Compress:Gunzip?

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Vromans) writes: Good idea, but don't we need to solve the current module registry problems as well? Many module authors issue submission requests and never get a reply. Tim also wrote: But [EMAIL PROTECTED] has it's own set of problems (that I hope will be addressed

Re: Finding the module you want (was: New module Mail::SendEasy)

2004-02-15 Thread Smylers
Rocco Caputo writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:19:14PM +, Smylers wrote: Similarly an author doesn't need to understand all of the problems, just so long as they state exactly what they are looking at, preferably stated upfront. So the article starts by saying I'm looking for a

Re: Finding the module you want

2004-02-15 Thread Smylers
David Manura writes: Smylers wrote: But yes, as the CGI::Lite maintainer I do have an interest in a review of CGI-related modules: I'd like it to put people off using CGI::Lite so that I can stop trying to maintain it and everybody can use something saner instead ... Of course,

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-15 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elizabeth Mattijsen) writes: I've released about 30 modules in the past 1.5 years. I _never_ bothered to try to register. I guess that means something. Likewise. (although slightly more than 30 ;) I just don't see the point of the modules list, especially now we have

Re: Finding the module you want (was: New module Mail::SendEasy)

2004-02-15 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Rocco Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-12 11:29]: Conveniently, I've written exactly the thing that provides the features I need, in a way that's most convenient for my purpose. Everything else pales by comparison, otherwise I would not have written it. Here, let me show you. Are you

Re: pure perl Zlib

2004-02-15 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-15 22:44]: ...but it doesn't use Zlib! :) Compress::Gzip? * Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-15 22:53]: But it doesn't compress. Compress:Gunzip? Uncompress::Gzip (Neither really meant as serious suggestions) Problem is that it's an

Re: Module lists: defining the problem, restating the goals [was Re: OK, so we've decided...]

2004-02-15 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Sam Vilain wrote: who are experts in the field, will truly perform this task - and that to gain maximum support, that it should be included in the content mirrored along with the rest of cpan.org. I like what you're proposing, but I think the best way to do this is to

Re: [RFC] Text-Balanced 1.96 proposed interface changes: return failure in list context

2004-02-15 Thread Damian Conway
David Manura wrote: As the current maintainer of Text::Balanced, And *thank-you* for taking on that role, David! :-) (2) extract_multiple will recognize only the empty list and (undef, ...) return values from extractor functions as match failures. This is what the POD currently states, but