Re: RFC: DBIx::Util

2001-02-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:51:18PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Johan Vromans sent the following bits through the ether: Have you contacted the DBI people to see whether they are interested in adding this to standard DBI? FWIW, I submitted a patch to Tim Bunce in November adding these two

Re: Help Name This DBIx:: module...

2001-08-30 Thread Tim Bunce
Given that it's got wide functionality I'd suggest that you give it an abstract name (ala Alabazoo, Tangram etc) rather than try to find a name that describes the functionailty specifically. Tim. On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:08:23PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: Some of you may recall my DBIx::

Re: DBD naming question?

2002-01-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:34:03PM -0800, Schuyler Erle wrote: Hello. I've written a DBD module to wrap other DBD handles and provide intelligent drop-in support for asymmetrically replicated databases (e.g., MySQL v3). First I was going to call it DBD::Switch, but then I noticed that DBI.pm

Re: SQL translator module: DBIx:: or SQL::?

2002-02-28 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:23:44PM -0500, Ken Y Clark wrote: All, I have the beginnings of something that might actually be CPAN-worthy: a translator for converting one database's create syntax into another's I had personal need to convert MySQL and Sybase to Oracle, so I've got the

Re: SQL translator module: DBIx:: or SQL::?

2002-03-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Jan 02, 1970 at 06:15:56AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: Specifically, I was thinking SQL::Translator for the package name, with all the rest of my modules (Parsers, Producers, etc) living under there That sounds good but it sounds like it only does schemas, so how about:

Re: New Module Advice

2002-07-17 Thread Tim Bunce
Maybe FileMetaInfo::Miner::StarOffice FileMetaInfo::Miner::HTML etc Tim. On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:41:17PM -0500, Midh Mulpuri wrote: You are right. These modules are not general purpose parsers. In fact, I am using HTML::Parser to implement a HTML miner to extract data from

Re: CPAN Upload: E/EL/ELIZABETH/Thread-Needs-0.01.tar.gz

2002-07-30 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:38:56AM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 01:56 PM 7/29/02 +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: At 10:44 AM 7/29/02 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: Thread::Needs isn't a very descriptive name - it's too general. Something like Thread::NeedsModules would be better. I have been

Re: UDPM name space finalization

2003-06-04 Thread Tim Bunce
All seems fine to me. Tim. On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:17:13PM -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: UI::Dialog UI::Dialog::GNOME UI::Dialog::KDE UI::Dialog::Console UI::Dialog::Backend::Zenity UI::Dialog::Backend::GDialog UI::Dialog::Backend::XDialog UI::Dialog::Backend::KDialog

Re: what to do with dead camels ?

2003-08-05 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:17:36AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:27:47AM -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote: Maybe the e-mail should do something informative like list how many years, months and days it's been since a given module has been updated. Some weak souls

Re: Tie::Array::Sorted

2003-11-12 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:42:05PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:16:51PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:32:13PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: Hi. I'm about to write a module which presents an array in sorted order; $a[0] will always be the

Re: Submitting a new module? (Linux::ForkControl)

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:56:02AM -0500, Brad Lhotsky wrote: but the idea is to extend the module using the /proc filesystem (hence the name space) 2) Is 'Linux::ForkControl' a decent name for this module? Other operating systems have /proc interfaces. (Perhaps not identical to Linux but

Re: Ivy.pm: name change? to upload on CPAN

2003-11-25 Thread Tim Bunce
, and provide the 3 line rewrapper for your internal use, that is not at all complicated for error prone. On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 12:04, Tim Bunce wrote: It's a single module implementing a class. The wrapper ought to be no more complicated than: package Ivy; use base Net::Ivy; 1

Re: more on Ivy.pm [was: Ivy.pm: name change]

2003-11-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:10:11AM +0100, Christophe MERTZ wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 18:04, Tim Bunce wrote: (I'm disappointed the module isn't an interface to the C library.) Don't be disappointed... The gains would be minimal in our view. Not if you're trying to process hundreds

Re: Simple multi-level tie

2003-12-18 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:00:23PM -0600, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote: I would like the ability to store a complicated record inside of a DBM file. I looked in the usual places and perldoc -q DBM gives me: Either stringify the structure yourself (no fun), or else get the

Re: BTRIEVE::*

2003-12-18 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:49:07PM +0100, Steffen Goeldner wrote: I'm still open for namespace suggestions. The following list BTRIEVE::File BTRIEVE::ISAM::File BTRIEVE::ISAMFile BTRIEVE::IsamFile with descending preference comes into my mind. Assuming ISAM is implied by

Re: Possible module for 'safer' signal handling....

2004-01-12 Thread Tim Bunce
at 15:50, Tim Bunce wrote: [snip] It might also be worth adding some mechanism to integrate with Sys::Signal http://search.cpan.org/src/DOUGM/Sys-Signal/Signal.pm I took a look that this. It is little bit of perlxs glue which uses perl's internals to set signal handlers, and have them

Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -, Orton, Yves wrote: I think MIME::Lite isn't in the Module List so the name wasn't peer-reviewed. The peer-review process offered by [EMAIL PROTECTED] certainly isn't perfect, but I do believe it's very valuable. Unless I read

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: pure perl Zlib

2004-02-16 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:51:18PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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!

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

2004-02-16 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:37:12AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: 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

Re: Namespace convenions

2004-05-19 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:54:21PM +0100, Orton, Yves wrote: The 'ex::' namespace is intended for experimental modules afaik. ex:: is for experimental *pragmas* Tim. -Original Message- From: Erik Norgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 May 2004 20:52 To:

Re: ANNOUNCE: WWW::Map 0.01

2004-07-10 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:46:31AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Smylers wrote: How about WebService::Map? Search the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives for WebService and you'll see that there have been recent attempts to distinguish between modules that help implement

Re: Finding prior art Perl modules (was: new module: Time::Seconds::GroupedBy)

2004-07-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:08:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether: The searching in search.cpan.org is, unfortunately, pretty awful. At some point I plan to sit down and try

Future of the Module List

2004-07-14 Thread Tim Bunce
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 about what

Re: MySQL::Backup?

2004-10-27 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:32:29PM -0400, Christopher Hicks wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, _brian_d_foy wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the opposite -- that DBIx:: should be for things that are generally usable with DBI, where the I is independent.

Re: Module Class::Stringify?

2004-11-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Robert Rothenberg wrote: Reference: some code for testing if an argument is string-like: sub is_string_like { return 1, why the comma? unless (defined $_[0] ref $_[0]); # We don't evaluate whether the . and .= operators are #

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-12-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:56:01AM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:46:24 +, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you generally pass URLs around as a string or broken up into a hash? If they had different formats for different consumers, I would. (And even today, I

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connectio ns

2004-12-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:43:51PM -, Orton, Yves wrote: It'll always come down to the issue of why not store complete DSNs? and so far that's not been well covered by the feedback I've got. Duplication of data in multiple places is the answer I think. The more DSN strings you have

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connectio ns

2004-12-07 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:51:41AM -0600, Chris Josephes wrote: Either way, does this traffic need to be replicated on both dbi-users and module-authors?? I would think the DBI list would supercede the other. I agree. Can anyone replying to this thread please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connectio ns

2004-12-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:17:25AM +, Terrence Brannon wrote: Christopher Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally I'd like to see a solution based on AppConfig. We have our database configs in AppConfig. The config files look something like: I did that two years ago:

Re: DFA::StateMachine

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:08:43AM -, Orton, Yves wrote: Ovid and I were getting fed up with the horrible DFA::Simple module, so I wrote a new module, DFA::StateMachine, to take its place in our work. But I'm no computer scientist, so I'm not even sure whether the name is right

Re: Should DSLIP codes be updated?

2005-03-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:06:33PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:16:11PM +, Robert Rothenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Some food for thought and debate. I'm wondering if the DSLIP codes [1] be updated, if revamped altogether. Note the following issues: Or

Re: Should DSLIP codes be updated?

2005-03-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:14:46PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:06:37PM +0100, Tim Bunce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or thrown away entirely, along with the rest of the the archaic idea of a module list. The Module List is dead. Module Registration is different

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:47:51PM +, Smylers wrote: Andy Lester writes: I don't think we need another CPAN at all. There's nothing wrong with putting require 6; at the top of Makefile.PL and keeping everything in one happy CPAN. Some observations: - CPAN is just an ftp mirror

HOW-TO for publishing a perl module? (was: Publishing my DBI subclass)

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:20:01AM -0400, Chuck Fox wrote: Tim, I am interested in publishing my subclass as some folks have contacted me concerning it after my reply to your story request. How do I go about publishing something like this ? Is there a useful link or set of links that

Re: New Author

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:28:57AM -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: On 9/27/05, Chuck Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a subclassed DBI module subclassing DBI is tough! This is off-topic, but please don't spread this meme. Subclassing any factory-based set of classed just takes a little

Re: Module naming advice

2006-05-27 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:26:22PM +0200, David Landgren wrote: Jeff Lavallee wrote: Hi all, before I upload a new module, I thought I'd make sure the namespace I intend to use makes sense. I've been working on a set of modules to make interacting with the next generation of Yahoo's

Module::Dependency 1.84

2006-07-11 Thread Tim Bunce
I needed some code to trawl through a directory tree parsing perl modules and scripts to determine their dependencies. The closest existing CPAN code was Module::Dependency but it fell short of what I needed. The original author (P Kent) has passed over maintenance to me. My latest release is:

Re: Dependency trees

2006-07-21 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:24:49PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: Is there anything out there that will generate a tree of dependencies, probably based on META.yml? I figure I can pass in Mason, Test::WWW::Mechanize and Catalyst and get back a list of dependencies that those require. It

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:29:12AM -0400, David Golden wrote: As with most things relating to Perl infrastructure, I'd start by asking Ask: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, more generally, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim. Regards, David On 4/2/07, Jerry D. Hedden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who do I need to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Builder/More/Simple 0.72

2007-09-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:54:12AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:00:59 -0700, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Most CPAN smoke testers wouldn't have caught it because even though they often run alphas they usually don't install them. So the

Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-07 Thread Tim Bunce
If there's a libfoo.so and I want to create a perl module/distribution that's just a very thin wrapper around libfoo, what should I call it? LibFoo Lib::Foo Lib::foo Lib::libfoo libfoo SomeCategory::Libfoo ??? Tim.

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:38:50PM +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Tim Bunce wrote: If there's a libfoo.so and I want to create a perl module/distribution that's just a very thin wrapper around libfoo, what should I call it? LibFoo Lib::Foo Lib::foo Lib::libfoo

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:17:16PM +0100, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: Tim Bunce wrote: I was thinking in terms of a low-level 'thin' extension called Lib::libmemcached with separate pure-perl modules implementing the Cache and Cache::Cache interfaces. Surely you found out about Cache

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:00:57PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:07:38 +, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm looking to build a very thin wrapper around libmemcached (http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html) a high-performance feature-rich interface

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-12 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:52:56AM -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 23:29 +, Tim Bunce wrote: Re the choice of name for the low level library... Lib::Memcached Lib::memcached Lib::libmemcached My preference is for Lib::libmemcached because

Re: Distributing C code

2008-03-18 Thread Tim Bunce
You might find Memcached::libmemcached interesting. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Memcached-libmemcached/ It ships with a bundled copy of the libmemcached source. Makefile.PL not only runs the libmemcached configure script, but also make and make install. (The install directory is actually a temp

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test::More/Builder 0.89_01 now with subtests

2009-06-24 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:07:55PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: is_passing() As a side effect of this work, there is finally a way to tell if a test is currently passing. Test::Builder-is_passing(). Its really have I failed yet, but if you don't think about it too hard

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

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Bunce
The next version of NYTProf supports profiling some 'slow' perl opcodes. I've included the rand opcode for exactly this reason. Tim. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:01:38PM -0800, cr...@animalhead.com wrote: Many of you know that the random number generator /dev/random is subject to delays when it

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

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:22:23AM +, Tim Bunce wrote: The next version of NYTProf supports profiling some 'slow' perl opcodes. I've included the rand opcode for exactly this reason. I meant srand (though rand is also included, just in case). Though having just looked at the Configure code

Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Bunce
Currently on PAUSE you have to explicitly delete old uploads. How about changing it so you have to explicitly KEEP old uploads that appear to have been superseded? PAUSE already has a mechanism to delete files at some future point in time. That's currently only used as part of a safety/sanity

Re: Tidy up your PAUSE directories

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:09:53PM +0200, Rene Schickbauer wrote: brian d foy wrote: It's time for Spring cleaning again. If you have ancient versions of modules sitting around in your PAUSE directory, consider letting them retire to BackPAN (http://backpan.cpan.org). They don't disappear from

Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-01 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:39:27AM -0400, David Nicol wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@perl.org wrote: The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a database instead of a

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:53PM +0300, Burak Gürsoy wrote: From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce Subject: Distributing the CPAN * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. * Over time the number of cpan-git-mirror's and cpan-git-server's

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 04:49:44PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com [2010-04-02 15:55]: So, for a cpan-git-mirror to update itself it only needs to do: cd cpan-all git pull git submodule update The git pull of cpan-all repro would be very fast

Re: Yet another module naming suggestion query

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:07:33AM +0300, Sawyer X wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Tim Bunce [1]tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote: Data is fairly meaningless as a name. The Data:: is intended to be used for modules that work with abstract data values: Data::Bind, Data

Re: Module Namespace for External API Wrappers

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:28:04AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Dave Cardwell # on Saturday 03 July 2010 05:09: I’ve written a module that wraps the notifo.com API ... I’m leaning towards WebService::Notifo, but would appreciate your advice if you would suggest otherwise.

Re: Perl in the Data Warehouse

2010-08-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Nelson Ferraz wrote: Tim Bunce wrote: I don't think do. And neither is DataWarehouse. Looking at the code it seems to me this is a 'framework' of inter-related modules that share a common set of assumptions. (Which mandates one particular SQL syntax

Re: Benchmark module with some more statistics

2011-07-05 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:19:49PM +0200, Lars Dɪ? 迪拉斯 wrote: Coordinate your efforts with Steffen Müller. http://blogs.perl.org/users/steffen_mueller/ http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Dumbbench-0.04/ +1 Tim.

Re: Devel::Size broken

2014-06-16 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:57:49PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote: Devel::Size module seems to be broken in 5.20.0. No response from developers. No work for a year or so. What's the process to address a broken module that the developers won't fix? Kafka.pm indirectly depends on

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-04 Thread Tim Bunce
My 2-cents: I've often wanted to be able to browse the module namespace hirearchy. That would be a great addition. I imagine the UI might be tricky to do well though. Independently of that, I'd love to see something like a 'mentioned by' page. It would list all other distros that mention (via an