Hi! Sorry for the late response.
On Friday 11 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-04 at 14:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Guy! > > > > I hope you don't take it the wrong way, but I found your message hard to > > follow. You often broken my paragraphs or even my sentences in half, lost > > a lot of yours and mine's original context, etc. But I'll try to do the > > best I can. > > Sorry. I find it hard to understand things I have to scroll. > Ah OK. I guess it was an impedance mismatch. > [snip] > > > > > Depends what you mean by "new". If you mean > > > > > > Not existing CPAN Modules. > > > > "Not existing CPAN Modules" is also a bit ambigious. > > NAME-VERSION not previously uploaded > > [snip] OK. > > > Can you give an exact link to his original post, or quote it? > > Ok, google: perl module authors archive > > Here's his original message (one i ignored mostly ... i think I'll go > back and look at the links now --- the is in a different thread, named > "Re: <your-original-subject>" ... I wonder why that happened). > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6395.html > > This is the first relevent one (subject changed and later in the new > thread) > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6404.html > From what I can understand it reads data from META.yml and other sources like that, (or traps the output of Module::Build in a special mode.) While such ways to populate the machine-processable meta-data automatically may be nice, they are still not a direct substitute for having it in the first place. That's because some aspects are better maintained in such a format for the convenience of the module writer and the programs (GUIs, WebUIs, CLIs, etc.) he runs to manipulate and verify them from the disk before they are uploaded. > Here's his follow-up (back to the original thread which you started --- > that probably explains why you found it hard to follow). > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6415.html > > [snip] > > > > > copy-and-paste the relevant parts to your message. > > > > > > I can't see any point in that. > > > > In that case, lacking good links or a definitive reference text, I'll > > have to ignore your comment earlier. > > > > 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! > > Please. The Nazi's were socialists. I'm a little to the right of > Attila the Hun. > Heh. :-). (Guy Hulbert)++. And I thought Attila was a Humanitarian. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V.
