Re: How to force tests to issue NA reports?

2005-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
::P0fq that I am slowly working on requires a running copy of p0f. -- David Cantrell

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I recommend using Google Code hosting at code.google.com instead. Setup is trivial, as is adding people to the project. What's the advantage over sourceforge? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire I remember when

Re: Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-06 Thread David Cantrell
'. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a Womble with its nose chopped off.

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
good idea. If BYRNE wants to upload one of KBROWN's modules, then he should talk to KBROWN and become a co-maintainer or get KBROWN to hand over ownership. That's what we did when TJMATHER and I agreed that I could roll Number::Phone::Country into Number-Phone. -- David Cantrell | A machine

Re: RFC: relative.pm

2007-10-08 Thread David Cantrell
some pre-existing pragma's namespace like lib::anything would. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main or only aptitude is for marketing, drowned.

Re: Spanish fiscal identifier validator

2007-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:49:05PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote: On 10/13/07, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Luis Tello wrote: how does one unsubscribe? By following the instructions in the headers of every message. This is a common

Re: got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

2007-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
be clarified as $PREFIX/h2ph in the docs. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread David Cantrell
instead. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X

Re: autoconf-like work in Build.PL - detecting OS features

2007-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
portability is more important right now, and is currently blocked on VMS is scary, weird and foreign. Another possibility is that I should think more about Devel::CheckOS::OSFeatures::*. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders When a man is tired of London, he is tired

Re: Help with Test Failures

2007-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
to run 6 tests, and then you either run 6 tests or you skip *7* tests. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Aluminum makes a nice hat. All paranoids will tell you that. But what most do not know Is reflections will show On the CIA's evil landsat.

Re: Help with Test Failures

2007-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
::Hide. The -from:children switch will even hide modules from child processes. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: Premature optimization is the root of all evil. OTOH, being able to inline functions could be nice, yes. If I ever need to do that, I'll run my code through the C pre-processor before releasing it. -- David Cantrell | Cake

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-08 Thread David Cantrell
and try the code out, instead of just judging it by the version number. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

Re: Idea: Test::Bundle module

2007-12-30 Thread David Cantrell
that test to it. About testing that all the modules are available on CPAN: How do you test locally? I'd make tests skip if they can't find a CPAN mirror. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Arbeit macht Alkoholiker

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
Sunday. The tricky one is next Sunday. Towards the end of the week, say on a Friday or Saturday, this Sunday is in a day or two's time and next Sunday is a week later, but at the beginning of the week, next Sunday is the same as this Sunday. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

Re: Date::Piece months and weeks

2008-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
so long as it is consistent. I suggest that being consistently wrong almost everywhere is only better than being inconsistently wrong. And if you think that this Wednesday means this week's Wednesday then you will be sometimes wrong and sometimes right. -- David Cantrell | top google result

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
even Microsoft pays attention to at least some bug reports which come from people who have no intention of actually *using* their products. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Razor Stupidity maintained

Re: Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Deck of Cards: $1.29. 101 Solitaire Variations book: $6.59. Cheap replacement for the one thing Windows is good at: priceless -- Shane Lazarus

Re: Namespace for new perl (chess) module

2008-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
is used for Go ratings, at least in Europe. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Today's previously unreported paraphilia is tomorrow's Internet sensation

Re: Namespace for new perl (chess) module

2008-02-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:34:32AM +0100, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote: * On 2008-02-04 David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Daniel T. Staal wrote: My first thought, after looking through your Wikipedia link, is to ask if there is anything specifcally 'chess' about your module

Re: license in META.yml

2008-03-31 Thread David Cantrell
that it is) and if I want to create Dave's Fabulous Software Licence then I am free to do so. So there's two other good reasons not to use it aside from it not being important :-) -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Your call is important to me. To see if it's important to you

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
interesting or useful for an author to list everything he uses. Tk and Catalyst are good examples. Catalyst is an excellent example. I'm sure it has gone through at least one fairly major re-organisation of its distributions at some point. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
some at random) were pretty clear about that. If you can point us at the specific test result that you're got an issue with then I'm sure someone can either explain it or point you at the tester in question. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club More people

Re: Find A Tester

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
://cpantest.grango.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, colorful, and make nice noises

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
that isn't an insurmountable problem. Perhaps someone who has more time available than I do (and who knows more about packaging) should apply for a perl foundation grant to get this going :-) -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

Re: Fwd: New CPANTS metrics

2008-06-10 Thread David Cantrell
there is to CPANTS or the Kwalitee metric. It is a garbage bin of random metrics that people dream up, regardless of whether they are useful to the real-world end-user or to the module author. If you see no value in it, just ignore it. I'm sure it will do wonders for your blood pressure. -- David

Re: Exporter::Safe?

2008-06-24 Thread David Cantrell
( from = 'Module::That::Exports::Stuff', subs = [qw(set get bet wet)] ); -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done

Re: Proposal: Test::Refcount

2008-07-14 Thread David Cantrell
. Can't you use Devel::Peek to get the refcount? -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
::B has to also be too broken because it is *more* broken. Which is a shame, cos M::B is a good idea. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Need help improving my Kwalitee

2008-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
Elliot Shank wrote: David Cantrell wrote: As a counter-counter-point, if you're going to refuse to use EU::MM because it's too broken, you have to refuse to use Module::Build for the same reason. Ah. Ok, I'll use nothing. Well done! Ten out of ten for deliberately misunderstanding

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread David Cantrell
. If anyone else wants to pick it up and implement it, I'd be delighted. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery

Re: The problem with auto-installing dependencies

2008-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
I trust the author? And no particular set of answers to these questions is the ???right??? one. Part of this is why I wrote CPANdeps (http://deps.cpantesters.org/). I'm just about to add links to RT queues, which should be useful too. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist I caught

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-27 Thread David Cantrell
/Bar.pm: Apache.txt *: public-domain and then say that *either* 'licence' *or* 'licences' must be present, as must the files they reference. The exact spelling of the word or in the second example I leave to you :-) -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist When a man is tired

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:13:24PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, in summary, here's my objections to the current 'license' field in META.yml: * poorly documented; * limited range of options for licences; * only

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:36:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, David Cantrell wrote: That's the bit where I suggest instead of saying, eg, frobnitz to mean the Frobnitz licence you say frobnitz to mean the licence whose text is in the 'frobnitz' file. That would

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
to hold their hands too much if they really want to follow one of the other ways of doing things? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan Sugalski

Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?

2008-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
' it unless you've got thread support. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to catch TB than a normal person

Re: CPAN cannot find my module

2008-11-13 Thread David Cantrell
work, then I'd suggest contacting Andreas and asking for help diagnosing the indexing problem. Could it be the weird version number? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither

Re: Module::Build 0.30_01 - please test

2008-12-12 Thread David Cantrell
this myself in the few days before Christmas, but I'm sure it would be a good idea for at least one other person to do it. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
that are needed. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus

Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-18 Thread David Cantrell
? Of those, Recognizer is better IMO, because you're actually aiming to *understand* the barcode and turn it into a number, just like OCR turns an image into a bunch of characters, and not merely find the part of the image that contains the barcode. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
$hashref = Tie::Hash::Vivify-new(sub { confess(No auto-vivifying (did you mis-spell something?)\n.Dumper(\...@_)) }); I found that excellent module after spending *hours* tracking down a typo deep in the guts of CPU::Emulator::Z80. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

Re: Perl Critic and 5.6 vs. 5.8

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:25:39PM -0600, Roger Hall wrote: 1. I should have perl set to a minimum version, shouldn't I? What's the best way to do that? (Makefile?) Yes, see http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Irregular English

Re: ARGH! (was FW: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references)

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
that it shouldn't be treated that way. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:17:22AM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes: Tie::Hash::Vivify is useful for detecting this: my $hashref = Tie::Hash::Vivify-new(sub { confess(No auto-vivifying (did you mis-spell something?)\n.Dumper

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-02 Thread David Cantrell
slow anyway. [ insert muttering about #ifdef-ing it in or out depending on whether it's running on my machine or not - why on earth was that useful feature removed? ] -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-03-03 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time -- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan practice in a letter to Heliodorus, 373 or 374 AD

Re: Public Domain - License Text?

2009-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
. Module::Build is obviously buggy in this area. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Cynical is a word used by the naive to describe the experienced. George Hills, in uknot

META.yml no_index

2009-04-02 Thread David Cantrell
Foo Bar BarTestModule.pm ... ... and even if it's not kosher, are there any dists that do that that you know of? -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness There are many different types of sausages. The best are from the north

Re: PBP Module Recommendation Commentary and recent CPAN ratings spammings

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:20:20PM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: and the summary there is controversy, but it's definitely better than EUMM is certainly true. Only for certain values of true. Whether it's actually better for *users* is a rather controversial subject. -- David Cantrell

Re: a lot of controversy about Module::Build

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
. There is disagreement about whether it's a good idea to use Module::Build, and merely denying that the disagreement exists is ... well, it's silly. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount

Re: a lot of controversy about Module::Build

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Cantrell # on Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:06: As I've said before, this is silly. It's a tool, so either it works or it doesn't. We can't really have controversy about whether it works or how it works. Despite your saying that we can't, we do

Re: RFC: Yet Another Excel Writer..

2009-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
| | XML::Easy | | XML::LibXSLT::Easy | +-+ 41 rows in set (9.89 sec) -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Irregular English: ladies glow; gentlemen perspire; brutes, oafs and athletes sweat

Re: managing your perl

2009-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
[CCing Michael Schwern cos I'm not sure if he's on this list] On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:39:04AM -0400, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: David Cantrell wrote: [re http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_best_admin_practices] ... once you have found it, how is someone outside

Comparing floating point numbers

2009-05-06 Thread David Cantrell
if this is something that could be broken out of Math-GSL and put into Test::More - or at least released seperately so that people can use it without Math::GSL's dependencies. Of those, ExtUtils::PkgConfig is a bit of a showstopper for lots of people. Added TSCH to the CC list. -- David Cantrell

Re: Puzzling error from cpan testers

2009-05-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:05:49PM -0400, David Golden wrote: Yikes. You must have missed Test::Number::Delta ... Harr! That'll teach me to read the whole thread before replying! -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Irregular English: you have anecdotes

Re: Arguments checker module

2009-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
' ;). If perl 5 doesn't have OO (something that I disagree with), then Moose doesn't have OO, so any advice to use Moose to get OO is obviously wrong. No amount of syntactic sugar can change the fact that perl just has blessed scalars. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Nuke

Re: Arguments checker module

2009-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
will take longer than learning just the employer's codebase. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information There once was a tramp with enable Whose router used proprietary cables. When he got pissed on meths, He thought screw IOS, Let's apt-get install iptables

Re: Module::Build + automatic README / LICENSE

2009-05-12 Thread David Cantrell
to represent dual-licenced code. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: Opinion on a suitable name for a file inspection module

2009-05-13 Thread David Cantrell
? Just in the last couple of days someone uploaded ELF-Extract-Sections to the CPAN, maybe that will do what you want. Or if not, it might at least provide a good starting point. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive There are many different types of sausages. The best

Re: Parse::CPAN::Cached newbie feedback request

2009-06-09 Thread David Cantrell
simple as to not warrant being on cpan. Certainly not! There's lots of very simple, very useful modules on the CPAN. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main or only aptitude

Re: CPAN Search/BACKPAN Diff Tool

2009-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:49:41PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: ... CPAN Search Diff tool ... I would ideally like to implement such a tool on the entire BACKPAN, Why not just take a backpan mirror, untar stuff, and use diff -r? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world PERL

Re: should we still be registering module namespaces?

2009-08-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:48:24AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote: Is there still a point to registering module namespaces on PAUSE? No. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat If I could read only one thing it would be the future, in the entrails of the bastard

Re: XML::Rules new versions not seen by CPAN shell

2009-08-26 Thread David Cantrell
against what's in the CPAN index files. There's no privacy concerns as the files are already available on the user's machine. Have it warn loudly if you've got old versions of tools. I'd be happy to add this to my To-do list if the maintainers think it's a good idea. -- David Cantrell

Re: XML::Rules new versions not seen by CPAN shell

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:47:08PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: On Wed, August 26, 2009 3:23 pm, David Cantrell wrote: Perhaps CPAN.pm (and CPANPLUS) could add a way of checking for updated toolchain-ish modules on startup. Simply compare version numbers of what you've got against what's

Re: gentle nudgings about upgrading your tools

2009-08-28 Thread David Cantrell
disinclined to include things like Archive::Tar and ExtUtils::CBuilder, but could be persuaded. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
definition of homedir on Mac OS. The result is that, for the time being, at least, the official location for CPAN configuration data on Mac OS is indeed ~/Library/Application\ Support/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Does that not assume that you're using Apple's build of perl? -- David Cantrell

Re: Questions about encouraging testers

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
it to my rather long to-do list ;-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig The Law of Daves: in any gathering of technical people, the number of Daves will be greater than the number of women.

Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
a compiler, the necessary libraries/headers, and a working linker. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, colorful

Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-10-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01:56PM +0200, O. STeffen BEYer wrote: Also, many of your suggestions need Perl modules to be installed on the target machine which do not exist on legacy Perl installations ... Devel::CheckLib is designed to be bundled with your distribution. -- David Cantrell

Re: How can I tell MakeMaker to insert recommended modules into META.yml?

2009-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
in the current version. IIRC it was originally just an experimental feature so not documented until recently. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main or only aptitude is for marketing

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

2009-11-02 Thread David Cantrell
to access that resource. If I care enough about a distribution to want to look at the git or cvs repo, then I care enough to not just look at search.cpan. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority

Re: Fun with Irix!

2009-11-05 Thread David Cantrell
to test for gcc in Makefile.PL? How about: use Config; if ( $Config{cc} =~ /gcc/ ) { ... } Not sure that'll always work - what if cc is a link to gcc? But $Config{gccversion} is always true if gcc was used. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Repent

Re: Fun with Irix!

2009-11-05 Thread David Cantrell
David Cantrell wrote: David Golden wrote: use Config; if ( $Config{cc} =~ /gcc/ ) { ... } Not sure that'll always work - what if cc is a link to gcc? Here we go ... $ ls -l `which cc gcc` ... /usr/bin/cc - /etc/alternatives/cc ... /usr/bin/gcc - gcc-3.3 $ ls -l /etc

Re: Why you don't want to use /dev/random for testing

2009-11-12 Thread David Cantrell
to it. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
against your own country, your mother land! Yes. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-04 Thread David Cantrell
of several programmers for the last six months on a large product that uses Catalyst. I still have to ask people for help whenever I hit Catalyst. And I keep finding things in Catalyst that look just plain stupid and wrong. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing engineer: n. one who, regardless

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
to keep your application and all its dependencies somewhere other than /usr, or you might have to use your own build of perl because as well as Catalyst you need to use some other module that's particularly fussy, or ... -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders

Re: Module uploaded - whats next?

2009-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

Re: Writing tests

2009-12-16 Thread David Cantrell
on those modules to not be available if the necessary underlying libs and servers aren't available? Then CPAN.pm will magickally detect that your pre-reqs aren't available, and suppress the results of make test. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Seven o'clock

Re: Writing tests

2009-12-16 Thread David Cantrell
specification. Good luck with that. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club On the bright side, if sendmail is tied up routing spam and pointless uknot posts, it's not waving its arse around saying root me! -- Peter Corlett, in uknot

Re: satiating cpantesters

2009-12-16 Thread David Cantrell
configuration: .*/ errors couldn't be made NA. Mmmm, more special cases. From a user's (ie, a module author's) point of view, isn't it easier to remember exit(0) than to remember exactly what message to spit out? -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil

Re: satiating cpantesters

2010-01-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:53:22AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Cantrell Mmmm, more special cases.  From a user's (ie, a module author's) point of view, isn't it easier to remember exit(0) than to remember exactly what message to spit out? Easier to remember, maybe

Re: satiating cpantesters

2010-01-09 Thread David Cantrell
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Cantrell # on Wednesday 06 January 2010 03:48: Exiting with a 0 status would seem to be the least clunky solution. exit(0) means Stop now and claim to have succeeded But you didn't succeed because something's wrong and thus on the way out you must mention

Re: satiating cpantesters

2010-01-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:48:19AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Cantrell # on Saturday 09 January 2010 07:44: Fine, but if you *don't* claim to have succeeded, then you have to expect that software that looks for failures will spot the failure and report it. As the author's fault

Re: Can't cpan WWW::Mechanize

2010-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
:-) -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary -- H. L. Mencken

Re: avoid running CPAN as root

2010-01-12 Thread David Cantrell
the 'make test' command for them. 2. Far more impact is that sudo requires that you enter your password each time you invoke it. The default configuration is to only require it the first time you invoke it, and then store it for a certain amount of time for re-use. -- David Cantrell | Hero

Re: avoid running CPAN as root

2010-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
if the entire build process takes hours, provided that at least one distribution gets installed every fifteen minutes, you'll be fine. Have you ever actually tried to *use* sudo? -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Godliness is next to Englishness

Re: Dynamic prerequisite installation

2010-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
of tools that analyse META.yml, you might like to make it just default to listing JE as a pre-requisite even if the user already has it installed. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: ... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want to install it permanently (y/n) [yes]

2010-03-09 Thread David Cantrell
I configure the CPAN client to automatically answer yes to such questions? Set build_requires_install_policy' to 'yes'. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks

Re: how to give a list of alternative requirements?

2010-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
unlikely to get a sensible response to any questions. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
for someone to take my code and customise it further to, eg, also pin a few modules that rely on the particular versions of third-party libraries that you use. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
that that would be hard for Andreas to keep in sync! -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without adult

Re: Applications on CPAN

2010-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
::CircleIRC::app -e 'run' Or slightly more portably ... #!perl use LeoNerd::CircleIRC::app; run; and rely on the installer to turn the #! into something with the right path, or into a DOS batch file, or whatever. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Seven o'clock

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, etc. I should be using. Keep as simple as possible. If EU::MM does the job easily, then use it. Otherwise, consider Module::Build, but be aware that for a great many users it will introduce an extra dependency, as it was not in core until 5.10.0. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved

Re: Problem with target of http://search.cpan.org/dist/Marpa/?

2010-07-08 Thread David Cantrell
of Marpa.pm. You can see this in the 02packages file. Assuming I'm right, you can fix it by deleting Marpa-0.01 from the CPAN (there's an interface for this on pause.cpan.org) and waiting a few days for the deletion to propagate out to everywhere. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry

Re: Roles on the CPAN

2010-07-26 Thread David Cantrell
which serializes things to YAML, you might call it Does::Serialize::YAML to make it clear it's a role to be consumed and not a stand-alone package. Thoughts? Seems reasonable. If it's Moose-specific, then maybe see if you can work that into the name too. -- David Cantrell | Hero

Re: Advice wanted re Marpa::XS

2010-08-19 Thread David Cantrell
it bitches about you tried to use something from C99 but didn't tell me in advance, lalalalalalala) so you may choose not to care. Note to self: patch the irix hints file to make perl build with c99 by default -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Aluminum makes a nice hat

Re: Why Text-Diff Is Not Compatible with perl-5.005

2010-08-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:46:07PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Adam, Was there really any need to Cc module-authors? -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

Name needed for a module to check whether a binary is GNU

2010-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
--version` =~ /(gnu|free software foundation)/i I'm thinking something like ExtUtils::CheckForGNUbinary. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist We found no search results for crotchet. Did you mean crotch?

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