On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the > licensing issues on CPAN. >
[Snip] > 4) Module::Starter and similar tools should use the same list > (maybe taken directly from Software::License) to guide the users > when they create a new module. > Well, I tried to contribute to Module-Starter and indeed had fixing its licence-handling in the future as a priority. The first thing I did was add some comprehensive tests, which M-S was almost completely absent of. I submitted a patch for this here: http://code.google.com/p/module-starter/issues/detail?id=2 While working on the patch, I found some bugs, which I wrote a subset patch for here: http://code.google.com/p/module-starter/issues/detail?id=3 Both of these happened over two months ago. The patches were not applied yet, and if I am to fix the licence-handling in M-S, then it is a pre-requisite that they will be. Andy Lester (M-S' maintainer) blogged about Module-Starter here: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/10/creating-a-module-distribution-with-modulestarter.html And said that: {{{ Now, Perl Training Australia has done just that with one of its Perl Tips, "Starting a module with Module::Starter". I've already absorbed it into the Module::Starter distribution. }}} Now, RJBS who is a M-S co-maintainer now has his own private distribution-creation magic (which is not released yet), and there was also a distribution like that released by a certain Japanese developer who announced it on use.perl.org. Its documentation is full of Engrish. In short - we live in interesting times. Regards, Shlomi Fish ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Shlomi, so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? -- Ran Eilam
