On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:25:51 +0200, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-14 00:55]:
Sure, but it's only one thing people need to remember. One
thing is easier than N things, especially as N changes every
time the core changes.
Yes, I agree. Don’t
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:36:52 -0400, Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
David Wheeler wrote:
On Jul 13, 2006, at 05:56, Fergal Daly wrote:
That's funny, it looks like I did put some code in to disable the END
block if it's required rather than used. Turns out I did this to
make
On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:37, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
If I got it right, the wish that was expressed is more like the wish for
an installer with a GUI.
Nope, just for a nice, easily-installable bundle of modules that work around
the unpleasant backwards compatibilities and warts of Perl 5.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:52:02 -0700, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:37, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
If I got it right, the wish that was expressed is more like the wish for
an installer with a GUI.
Nope, just for a nice, easily-installable bundle of modules that
Hi all,
what is the current best practices for testing code that forks?
I saw there was a recent discussion about patching Test::More
to support forking.
Is that going to happen or are there better ways to do it?
Gabor
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:45:55 -0400, Clayton O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why off-list? this is a good reaction.
On 7/14/06, H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look at the list of modules I include in my perl distributions for HP-UX at
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#Perl and
chromatic wrote:
Why is there not a Bundle::PerlPlus (and yes, I've lathered up my yak with
that name) that downloads and installs the modules that should have been in
the box?
For one, that should be Task::PerlPlus. :-)
Second, for any pre-packaged distribution like Strawberry Perl (see
* Tels [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-14 02:40]:
announced to early - now everybody tells me how I have to
implement it and why my way wont work
You were saying Adam’s way is inferior to your way. I disagreed.
That’s about the size of it.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
On Friday 14 July 2006 08:18, David Golden wrote:
Or, perhaps we need the Perl CPAN Cookbook -- which would be like the
Cookbook but focuses *only* on the greatest-hits modules across all the
same categories. If CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths, shouldn't
that get more attention,
Or, perhaps we need the Perl CPAN Cookbook -- which would be like the
Cookbook but focuses *only* on the greatest-hits modules across all the
same categories. If CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths, shouldn't
that get more attention, too?
Er, right. Now let me don my editor hat.
On Friday 14 July 2006 12:27, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
A book like this is something that's been in the back of my mind for a
while. If there were real interest in this topic (and I think there
is), I would be happy to help out in a significant way, like writing
several chapters.
If someone
On 7/14/06, H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look at the list of modules I include in my perl distributions for HP-UX at
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#Perl and you might get an idea of what
I think are useful modules that my work more effective. Not quite like yours
is it?
I think
--- Clayton O'Neill wrote:
I think a core difference between your list and Chromatic's is that
yours would be part of the standard library in a lot of languages,
whereas Chromatic seems to be aiming more for things that would be
part of the language.
Who's Chromatic?
/-\
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:36:54AM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
--- Clayton O'Neill wrote:
I think a core difference between your list and Chromatic's is that
yours would be part of the standard library in a lot of languages,
whereas Chromatic seems to be aiming more for things that would be
--- Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:36:54AM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
Who's Chromatic?
And it wasn't even the start of a sentence. :-)
[When doing the perl 6 summaries, Piers reconciled the forces of accuracy and
traditional grammar by ensuring by always rephrasing to
On Friday 14 July 2006 17:59, Andrew Savige wrote:
I thought Chromatic might be the name of chromatic's father or older
brother.
No, that's Mixolydian and Ionian, respectively.
-- c
(Yes, of course my mother is Dorian. What were you thinking?)
On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:03 PM, chromatic wrote:
On Friday 14 July 2006 17:59, Andrew Savige wrote:
I thought Chromatic might be the name of chromatic's father or older
brother.
No, that's Mixolydian and Ionian, respectively.
-- c
(Yes, of course my mother is Dorian. What were you
To summarize. What TAP uses is irrelevant, as long as it works. What
the Harness prints is relevant, but easy to fix any time. No worries
about TAP 1.0 vs. TAP 1.1, just download the new Test:Harness from CPAN
and everything will work. Right?
Wrong. Well, maybe...
Sometimes it could be
Unlike what others said, core perl shouldn't be the vehicle for this,
most likely, given the more stringent support and backwards
compatibility. We want to be able to change the composition of
PerlPlus overtime, and once things go into core, they're pretty stuck.
I should note for the record
Plus, I planned to
use YAML because it creates a _much_ less heavy overhead and dependency
chain. Using SQLite or similiar is what really creates the problems
with CPANTS - you cant just access the raw database without the
front-end.
Erm, I'm not sure I get you here. The main problem with all
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Tels [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-14 02:40]:
announced to early - now everybody tells me how I have to
implement it and why my way wont work
You were saying Adam’s way is inferior to your way. I disagreed.
That’s about the size of it.
I agree my way is inferior,
Adam Kennedy wrote:
Unlike what others said, core perl shouldn't be the vehicle for
this, most likely, given the more stringent support and backwards
compatibility. We want to be able to change the composition of
PerlPlus overtime, and once things go into core, they're pretty stuck.
I
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