CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi fellow module-authors, I have been working on this for more than half a year on and off. (mostly off) Finally I think it has the bare minimum to open the service. CPAN::Forum is a web forum to discuss CPAN modules. One of the objectives is to let people easily monitor discussions on several

DCOP module

2005-02-02 Thread Markus Heller
Dear fellow-authors, Yesterday I have seen that SuSE has produced some Perl modules that offer bindings to KDE. Though, I have been contemplating if it was possible to develop a module that can register a program with a running DCOP-Server and thus render a program controllable from outside of

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Selon Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] So if you are a module author but your module does not have its own mailing list or web forum yet, you can make use of CPAN::Forum Let your users know that your module can be discussed at http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/Distro-Name and they will

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Johan Vromans wrote: Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/CPAN-Forum May I suggest to reserve/use/allow CPAN ids for nicknames? I don't think I can do that. For one thing I can't make sure that a future PAUSE id will not be already taken on the

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes
Gabor Szabo wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Johan Vromans wrote: Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/CPAN-Forum May I suggest to reserve/use/allow CPAN ids for nicknames? I don't think I can do that. For one thing I can't make sure that a future PAUSE id will not be

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Ovid
--- Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you implement it and if someone comes along and claims he is DCONWAY how can I make sure he really is DCONWAY from PAUSE ? Ask him if he really is DCONWAY, but ask him in Klingon :) = If this message is a response to a question on a

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:58:23PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: How would you implement it and if someone comes along and claims he is DCONWAY how can I make sure he really is DCONWAY from PAUSE ? The same hack as rt.cpan.org uses - attempt a login on pause.cpan.org using the ID and password

Re: CPAN::Forum

2005-02-02 Thread Bruce J Keeler
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:06 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: I can't think of a future-proof way of avoiding IDs you allocate conflicting with PAUSE, unless you and Andreas collaborate CPAN IDs are always uppercase, if I'm not mistaken. The new forum currently requires registrants to use