On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 12:10 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote: > > * Package name : liburi-encode-perl > > Version : 0.04 > > Upstream Author : Mithun Ayachit <mit...@cpan.org> > > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-Encode/ > > * License : Artistic > > Programming Lang: Perl > > Description : Perl module to encode and decode strings to URIs > > > > URI::Encode provides an easy method to encode strings (mainly URLs) > > into a format which can be pasted into a plain text, so that those > > links are 'clickable' by the person reading it. > > > > If you are looking for speed and want to encode reserved characters, > > use URI::Escape::XS > > Why is anyone using URI::Encode instead of URI::Escape, which handles > all of this, is faster to boot, and is in core? If you actually wanted > its main feature, you'd just use: > > use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8); > uri_escape_utf8($string,"^A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?\#\[\]\@\!\$\&\'\(\)\*\+\,\;\=");
I agree. I've packaged URI::Encode because it's a dependency for a larger module (Facebook::Graph). I've already opened a bug upstream suggesting that URI::Escape be used instead of URI::Encode. -- Prof. Ernesto Hernández-Novich - MYS-220C - @iamemhn Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
