There are a few modules on CPAN that seem to be dead.
Without pointing fingers (to myself :-), let's say there is a
module called Dead::Camel someone started to develop, uploaded to
CPAN but it never reached any form of usable version or for some
other reason it is unusable today.
Eliminating
Hi,
while Yehuda Berlinger - the author of this module - has already
mentioned it here I'd like to draw your attention to this module
again and ask for your help.[1]
Yehuda took a script called perlindex (from CPAN) and based on that
created a module and a script that is capable to index all
The Win32:: namspace is also quite established to applications specific to
that platform so if the underlying application is Windows specific
I think using Win32:: would be a good idea.
I'd understand more something like Win32::Automate::app or
Win32::Drive::app.
less than 2c.
Gabor
I have released 3 modules to CPAN earlier, when I thought it is fun to
have some modules up there. Actually they don't do much there so I'd
like to get rid of them.
Two of them have never really worked so I can safely assume no one uses
them. I think I can just delete all of their copies from
I am looking for a module that can be used as part of a web based
application which requires management of a (partial) file system.
If there is no such module I wonder if it would be interesting to add
to CPAN ?
In our current state operations required are
- upload new file (with a customised
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Christopher Hicks wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote:
I believe even if you delete them all from your directory, everything
ever uploaded is still available on 'backpan':
Actually I have just noticed that link on the home page of every
author on search cpan
Is there some standard and machine readable way to describe where is
the mailing list and home page of a module ?
Maybe a field in META.yml with this information ?
Then someone could collect this information and present on a web page
(maybe it could be included as a link on search.cpan.org )
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
Use Module::Build to create your distribution, as it supports the
license field of META.yml, and provide the classical Makefile.PL
from ExtUtils::MakeMaker so that users don't need to install
Module::Build just to install
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote:
Agreed. Reviews as modules is not the best solution. CPAN does one thing
and does it well. Adding reviews as modules is likely to cause more
problems that it solves.
Do we really need reviews ? I am afraid not many people will take the
time to do a
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, David Coppit wrote:
Actually, in the last couple of days I've gotten email from something that
claims to be an automated testing service. (Sorry, but I deleted the
email.)
Interestingly I have just tried to install grepmail using CPANPLUS and
it sais No such module:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tim Bunce wrote:
I suspect some authors forget about purging because there's
nothing to remind them about it (I know I'm guilty of that).
Some authors might not be aware of purging at all.
When an author uploads to PAUSE (or clicks the button to take
ownership of a
Hi,
does anyone know how to add the license field to the META.yml
file when using Makefile.PL ?
I know how to do it from Build.PL and as far as I know MakeMake
does not yet support it out of the box. Is there a workaround ?
Does anyone know when will MM support it ?
Gabor
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
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 Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote:
The same hack as rt.cpan.org uses - attempt a login on pause.cpan.org
using the ID and password provided. If PAUSE accepts it, then you know
it's the real thing.
That would mean my server if cracked could be used to collect PAUSE
passwords. I am not sure
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Fergal Daly wrote:
There are two useful things that could come from having some PAUSE
interaction
As an author of several modules, I'd like to be able to tick a box that says
monitor all forums for my modules Also, it would be nice if users can see
that the author is monitoring
Hi,
plug
http::/www.cpanforum.com while not a wiki tries (in the TODO list at
least) answer some of what you are looking for.
Specifically I though of setting up - with the help of the users -
groups of moudules
or categorizes from within th list of all the modules on CPAN and then
allow
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:46:05 -0500, Sean Quinlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of mailing lists, is there a community listserv authors could
use? I have mailing lists for a couple projects (currently getting
dusty), but not everyone might have the option to set up their own
mailing lists.
Maybe if there was some alerting system
e.g. a big red sign on search.cpan.org next to each module that has
open bugs in RT
and has not been updated for the past 6 months...
I don't know.
Gabor
On 8/15/06, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Ovid:
Said in another way, if you feel that there is a number of modules that
need a new maintainer while bug are piling up, it's usually not because
the author doesn't want to give the co-maintenance, but because nobody
On 8/15/06, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message
From: Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: module-authors@perl.org; Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:50:47 AM
Subject: Re: Give up your modules!
Is there
On 8/15/06, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't CPANTS down indefinitely?
It alive and kicking:
http://cpants.perl.org/
and I think Thomas Klausner would be glad to see more people hacking on it.
Gabor
On 8/29/06, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition there is an RSS feed for every PAUSEID:
http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/author/PAUSEID
Just replace PAUSEID with yours
Okay, call me stupid, but what should I do with this? When I feed
http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/author/JV to
On 8/29/06, Éric Cholet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le 29 août 06 à 17:08, Johan Vromans a écrit :
Okay, call me stupid, but what should I do with this? When I feed
http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/author/JV to firefox it offers to
download a application/rss+xml file.
Welcome to the RSS mime type
On 8/29/06, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/381.cfm
Hacks like these are ruining the Internet.
I am not sure it was aimed at me but I go defensive here.
I have no written that, I have not even implemented it on CPAN::Forum.
I just learned from it to
On 3/18/07, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might find this open book helpful:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/
thanks
8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
Hi,
A few days ago I created a report listing the availability of every
CPAN module as package in various Linux distributions.
A bit more work on it and now there is a report for each module author
as well. http://www.szabgab.com/distributions/
Gabor
http://www.pti.co.il/
On 5/4/07, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A bit more work on it and now there is a report for each module author
as well. http://www.szabgab.com/distributions/
Interesting numbers, but I have some problems interpreting the report.
First, what do
Hi,
I would like to create a list of modules that need compilations
as opposed to those that are pure perl
Is checking for a file with .xs .c or .h extension in the distribution
the correct
thing to do? Is there a better way to collect this information or is it alrady
available somewhere?
In
thanks for all the ideas.
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/
/szabgab/trunk/CPAN-Porters/
What do you think?
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/
://www.cpanforum.com/tags/
Soon I'll provide a way to connect the username on CPAN::Forum with the
PAUSEID so the tags added by module authors can have a higher weight in
the search results.
So go tag a module today.
Regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/
Perl Training in Israel http
://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Porters
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/
On Feb 3, 2008 12:01 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 2, 2008 2:14 PM, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:18:21PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Due to the fact I did not hear from the original author for 2 weeks,
I'd like to ask the CPAN admins
On Feb 5, 2008 12:55 AM, Rafael Martinez Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First at all, I want to apologize. I'm the original maintainer of
IO::SOcket::INET6, but three years ago I'm not in charge of that.
No need for apology. You are a volunteer just as the rest of us.
The [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I know Perl is all about diversity but I wonder if requiring a uniform
way of providing version numbers of modules on CPAN would be too much
of restriction on the freedom of module authors?
I think it would make life easier for tool authors (PAUSE/CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS etc)
and downstream distro
As I am usually using Module::Build I did not know that a recent
version of MakeMaker
has started to support the LICENSE parameter and will include it in
the automatically
created META.yml. That in turn will increase your kwalitee metric
In addition it is also very useful as it show up on the
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:30 PM, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabor Szabo wrote:
As I am usually using Module::Build I did not know that a recent
version of MakeMaker
has started to support the LICENSE parameter and will include it in
the automatically
created META.yml
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-31T23:09:09]
Maybe there should be a module on CPAN (and maybe even distributed in core
perl?) that list some of the major licenses *with their full text*. Then
both
Module
Hi,
we have been discussing with Domm how CPANTS should check if a
distribution declares each of its prerequisites correctly which brought
us to the the point that we have a problem.
Let's focus for now only on dependencies on other CPAN modules and
not on external libraries.
So if I am using
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope it's not much of a flamewar so far, but it sure seems to have
escalated
into a minor one. You are a Nazi![1] - oops!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I am really
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:46 AM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:39:21PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
In general, listing everything is a good idea -- but there are cases where
it
is just too much work right now. For dists that contain dozens of
more-or-less
standard solution supported by Module::Build and MakeMaker that also
plays well with the downstream distributors.
Maybe there should be an extra/ directory defined by perl where each
module can have its own directory to put its extra files to.
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http
://cpantest.grango.org/
If things are still not clear you can always ask on the module-authors
mailing list
http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=module-authors
==
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
...
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
, but why do you dislike
02packages.details.txt.gz so much ?
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
such issues automatically without false positives?
PPI?
A simple grep?
Are there use cases where one should have /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl
in the code anywhere? In Makefile.PL ?
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com
- TPF should
find that out -
and then make sure we are checking the same thing legals will.
comments?
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
?
Maybe http://perlbuzz.com/ ? Any other ideas?
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Thomas Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is_prereq is an optinal metric and thus does not count for the CPANTS
game. And yes, Apps ususally won't get prerequed. Tough luck.
Actually I'd love to be able to add some way to measure which module
is used OUTSIDE of
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Eric Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
extracts_nicely: How much of a problem is this, really?
A lot of people hate tarballs/zip-files that spew their content into the
current dir. Especially if the offending dists contains lots of files.
Or a file with the
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Eric Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I can quickly break the module. Maybe I won't even notice but
someone who uses my version will start complaining. To you...
I might be a bit more clever and add use strict and use warnings before
I start changing your
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-10T13:23:09]
The point is that you should ship a dist that is complete enough for an
end-user to untar it, hack on the distro, run all the tests, and send you a
patch.
See, I
irrelevant.
We either have to turn them to green or maybe not display them at all.
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/
Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend recently reminded me of the RRDB author's vast list of donations
he's received for his work, and I was thinking howzabout me?
might be a good idea.
Make it easy to actually donate money.
Refering to Payal might
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Shmuel Fomberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if you have a better permissions sets, and know how to create it on
Windows, and made sure that the indexer agreed to index it, then please tell
me.
I don't know about the other parts but Andreas *is* the indexer ;-)
which users do we trust to use their opinion.
The web of trust that has been discussed lately on several channels.
After all you are doing some work we all wish we had time to do throughly
when we decide on using a module.
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com
I don't want the latest and breakest of CPAN.
Assuming I have a list of modules with the appropriate
*old* version numbers that I know my application is working with.
I would like to be able to point my *old* CPAN.pm to a CPAN mirror
that carries exactly those modules with exactly those versions.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:36 AM, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabor
Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So how can I build such a CPAN mirror along with its index files?
Which part of the process are you hung up on?
I am looking for the button to press
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabor
Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now I need a button (I'll settle with a command line tool)
that I can press and that will build my precious CPAN micro that
contains exactly those two
The executive note:
There is a license field in META.yml shipped with your distribution.
On 24 March 2008 there were 9,920 distributions *without* such field.
Today there are 10,235 such distributions.
It is about 20 seconds to add this field to each one of your modules.
as I described on my
I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the
licensing issues on CPAN.
Here are a couple of issues I identified. I'd like to get
your input on these issues hoping that we can have an
agreement and then the people with the commit bits can
implement them.
1) META.yml license field
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
6) In this mail I have not yet dealt with how exactly the license is
spelled out in the distribution (eg. LICENSE file) and in the
individual files
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# from Paul LeoNerd Evans
# on Wednesday 22 October 2008:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:52:27AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
While that might be annoying (once -- for the author), the tool
can't get around that if it is a
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Alexandr Ciornii [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
The META.yml thing is nice but you can't make it required yet.
The recommended version of Perl for production use is 5.8.8.
It
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Alexandr Ciornii [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bill Ward wrote:
The META.yml thing is nice but you can't make it required yet.
The recommended version of Perl for production use is 5.8.8.
It
software in their
proprietary application.
So I'd rather make it easy to check the license.
Gabor Szabo
http://szabgab.com/blog.html
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think supporting options like other or mixed should resolve most
of these cases. Sure, automatic tools that use this field will be out
of luck, but that should be a fairly small minority.
This is exactly what I mean.
I
Hi,
currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre
is being installed is threaded.
use Config;
if (not $Config{usethreads}) {
warn Padre requires a perl built using threads\n;
exit 0;
}
Is there any way to add this requirement to META.yml?
Gabor
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote:
Hi,
currently I have this code in Build.PL to check if the perl where Padre
is being installed is threaded.
use Config;
if (not $Config{usethreads}) {
warn Padre
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Jonas Brømsø Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-10T16:15:20]
I like to be able to release distributions without necessarily
touching a code module, if changes are just documentation, tests or
other files. I only update
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-12T18:05:39]
Burak Gürsoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well... You should either rename this thing or advertise more :)
And reduce the number of prerequisites, if possible.
If
A month ago we had a discussion about the license field of META.yml
Back then there were 10,235 modules on CPAN without a license field in META.yml.
Today I checked it again an there are now 10,264 such modules.
Now either people still don't know about it, don't care or there is a
bug in CPANTS
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Martin Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabor Szabo wrote:
A month ago we had a discussion about the license field of META.yml
Back then there were 10,235 modules on CPAN without a license field in
META.yml.
Today I checked it again an there are now 10,264
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:55 PM, David Golden wrote:
You might want to look at Smolder:
http://www.slideshare.net/mpeters/smolder-introduction
Smolder doesn't run tests. It only reports on the results.
Look at
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomput...@gmail.com wrote:
# from Gabor Szabo
# on Saturday 14 February 2009 09:43:
Unfortunately neither search.cpan.org nor Kobesearch show them
correctly.
Yes, see 'encoding' in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html
http
Hi everyone,
I am sorry I write only now but I was busy.
So I was the one who copied the data and I am sorry I did not ask you
Elaine first to access the database.
Guys please, let's not play the blaming game. That does not lead to any
good place.
If I can get access to the database I might
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Geoffrey Leachge...@hughes.net wrote:
Some time back here was an extensive discussion of module licenses. I
ignored it at the time, but now I regret that. Can someone point me to
a conclusion? Or, is it sufficient to use Software::License::Perl_5?
Thanks.
Hi,
For a long time I have not touched the CPAN::Forum web site but as a
new years resolution I started to work on it again.
So far most of the changes were internal
- switched to new server
- switched to PostgreSQL
- moved to mod_perl
- e-mails are sent in asynchronous mode
All this made the
for the prerequisites I'd like to let the user tell
which one she is
going to use and then make sure the relevant database driver is installed.
How would you do this and how should that be done so automated testers
will also be able to test the package?
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:44:58 Matt Grimm wrote:
The question is, how do I go about retiring one module on CPAN once
the merge is complete? I suppose the safest route might be to add a
big comment at the top of the
Some people might feel this related:
The surprising truth about what motivates us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Gabor
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 da...@cpan.org wrote:
What if I don't want it to use that Encode interface? I just want it to
be a module on its own.
Any good reason for doing so? This goes against two expectations set up by
CPAN precedent:
• All modules that deal with
in Python and in Java.
2) Using signals and signal handlers regularly crashes perl.
3) He also mentioned that he thinks the OO system of Perl is a hack -
that the objects are hash refs and there is no privacy.
So I wonder what hurts *you* the most in Perl?
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com wrote:
I wasn't *shitting* as you put it, on other peoples work. At least no more
so than Bill's original comment about Perl 6. I expressed my opinion only
and should be free to do so.
I already asked Bill in my response to refrain
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote:
The inability for an IDE to help me thoroughly refactor code is the biggest
problem for me.
Can Padre do that yet?
In a very limited way. There has
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Bill Ward b...@wards.net wrote:
I wasn't shitting on Perl 6.
Oh, then sorry for my wording.
The technology is fine. But we (collectively, the Perl community) suck at
marketing. The perception I hear everywhere I go is that Perl is a dead-end
language, and
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com
I am now trying again to build an .exe for Windows using PAR. If that
is successful then we might have a chance to build similar packages
for Linux and OS X..
Please dont forget
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote:
# from Gabor Szabo
# on Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:46:
Many modules on CPAN also need improvements.
But even what we have today we could achieve much better results if
the perception of people was better.
With my
I guess each module author has his/her own preferred way
how to get patches and other forms of help.
I have started to work on a series of talks - that I'd probably develop
with a series of blog posts - on how to contribute to and open source
project with heavy focus on Perl projects.
If
Hi I found a module on CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~goyali/google_talk_bot_v_01/
with the following comment regarding licensing:
You are not allowed to modify the script unless having the written
permission of abhishek jain
I am just wondering if having such code on CPAN is really what we want.
with your pauseid in lowercase.
thank you for your time!
regards
Gabor
--
Gabor Szabo
http://szabgab.com/
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:23 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:11:08PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
So I'd like to ask you all to check the test reports of your modules and if
you
have consistent failures of one of your modules on Windows then try to fix
Lovely, so now instead of talking about how to make sure our modules
work on other OS-es
we are going to discuss how Gabor is offending Dave?
I wrote a lengthy response pointing out various things but I think I'd
rather just apologize.
Dave,
I am sorry I did not mean to offend you. Keep up the
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Shmuel Fomberg ow...@semuel.co.il wrote:
On 2011/07/03 8:50, David Golden wrote:
If authors don't want failure reports on ancient Perls, they are
advised to be explicit with use 5.006 or use 5.008009 or whatever
is the earliest version they choose to support.
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Shmuel Fomberg ow...@semuel.co.il wrote:
Hi Gabor.
3) running external perl scripts
Code like this (in a test)
`path/to/other/perl/script param param`
is not a good idea on Linux either as this will use the perl in the
sh-bang
instead of the current
Hi,
I was looking at ExtUtils::MakeMaker and wondering how could I
list a set of modules as optional dependencies?
As I could not find and answer I wonder if there is a well defined tool
for this in any of the packaging tools of Perl?
If not, what is the recommended way to say in Makefile.PL
In case you don't have time to follow the many blog post of the
Perl community I think this is an item worth reading for you as a
Module Author.
Don't be left out from the new CPAN game!
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:58 PM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote:
Hi Gabor,
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:58:52 +0300
Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
In case you don't have time to follow the many blog post
In a distribution I would like to use a module (specifically
File::Copy::Recursive ) within Makefile.PL
How can I do this?
How do you do this?
I am using Module::Install so I would be mostly interested in that
solution but if you have this solved
for the other packaging tools, please do share
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