Re: How avoid "argument isn't numeric" warning when evaluating $VERSION?

2019-01-03 Thread David Golden
gt; > This will generate a warning like this: > > # > Argument "1.4417_001" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at ... > # > > I would like to submit a patch for the relevant module. What is the > recommended way of numifying $Someones::Module::V

Re: What happens to CPAN clients when TLS 1.2 is required?

2018-04-25 Thread David Golden
something newer. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > > On Apr 24, 2018, at 18:11 , David Golden wrote: > > But when they do opt into TLS, it's 1.2 required, right? > > > Sure, but … TLS 1.2 is almost ten years old. 1.1 is only barely older.

Re: What happens to CPAN clients when TLS 1.2 is required?

2018-04-24 Thread David Golden
> > On Apr 24, 2018, at 11:52, David Golden wrote: > > A colleague wrote this article about Python, which also uses Fastly: > https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2017/01/time-to-upgrade-your-python-tls-v12.html > > I realize that a lot of clients may not even use TLS for CPAN downloa

What happens to CPAN clients when TLS 1.2 is required?

2018-04-24 Thread David Golden
metacpan.org Fastly-backed CPAN mirrors stop serving insecure TLS traffic? David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg

Re: CPAN-river: can graph calculation be modified?

2018-02-02 Thread David Golden
t; of the CPAN river. (See, e.g., > http://thenceforward.net/perl/misc/cpan-river-1000-perl-5.27-master.psv.gz > ) > > To calculate the CPAN river, I've been using the programs developed by > David Golden found here: > > https://github.com/dagolden/zzz-index-cpan-meta &g

Re: Network connection

2017-11-12 Thread David Golden
it from > connection to an FTP server. If there is some code that I could just drop > in for situations where the test suite is run offline, that would be > helpful. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg

Re: Confirming PAUSE operating model safe harbor for Alt::* distributions

2017-11-01 Thread David Golden
to "yes" > > if the environment variable is true.. > > Agreed. > > > - I have no objection to "DBIx::Class::Boring" as a name. I don't think > > we should mandate a convention of "Alt::*". > > It would help of the Alt name chosen

Re: Confirming PAUSE operating model safe harbor for Alt::* distributions

2017-10-31 Thread David Golden
ystem in the first place David On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Sawyer X wrote: > On 31 October 2017 at 05:39, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > > On 31 October 2017 at 15:54, David Golden wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis > > > > wr

Re: Confirming PAUSE operating model safe harbor for Alt::* distributions

2017-10-30 Thread David Golden
ong other things, such an environment variable will show up in "perl -V" output, CPAN Testers reports and analytics, etc. which might help diagnose any unexpected complications from using Alt-style modules. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg

Re: Confirming PAUSE operating model safe harbor for Alt::* distributions

2017-10-26 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Chad Granum wrote: > I have a small objection to putting an alt module in a namespace other > than alt: It is less obvious. If I see Alt::Thing I will simply know it > will replace Thing. > Consider, too, if someone else wants to another alternative Thing. Alt:

Confirming PAUSE operating model safe harbor for Alt::* distributions

2017-10-26 Thread David Golden
be happy to see a convention established checking for a particular environment variable like "PERL_ALLOW_ALT_MODULES=1" that could apply across many Alt-style modules. A Makefile.PL prompt could default to "yes" if the environment variable is true.. - I have no objection to "DBIx::Class::Boring" as a name. I don't think we should mandate a convention of "Alt::*". What do others think? David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg

Re: Making www.cpan.org TLS-only

2017-09-04 Thread David Golden
ot;OR" conditions? "*.html" OR not in /authors/, etc/? Among things that should allow non-TLS: I would include /src/. Also the top-level RECENT files, things in /indices/. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg

Re: YAML (maybe other modules) might need CPAN smoking

2016-07-05 Thread David Golden
YAML or YAML::Tiny? Only the latter is tool chain. On Jul 5, 2016 8:14 AM, "Sawyer X" wrote: > YAML broke some stuff. > > I'm beginning to think that YAML is one of the modules that could > really use a CPAN smoke of its own. I think the more upriver the > module, the more this becomes relevant.

Re: "How to contribute" documentation

2016-06-08 Thread David Golden
w what > happens when we assume > > -- > David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist > > I know that you believe you understand what you think you wrote, but > I'm not sure you realize that what you wrote is not what you meant. > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread David Golden
bit to Infrastructure. > > > > Perl Infrastructure gets a vote from me. > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Kent Fredric > wrote: > >> > >> On 10 April 2016 at 03:45, David Golden > wrote: > >> > Perl Toolc

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread David Golden
Perl Toolchain Summit On Apr 9, 2016 10:28 AM, "David Cantrell" wrote: > I think the word you're looking for is symposium. Although I think > hackathon is just fine. > > -- > David Cantrell > > This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would > therefore ask that the recipient

Re: Passing some torches

2016-04-04 Thread David Golden
Thank you for offering. I think we're well covered with Karen and Leon. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Matthew Horsfall (alh) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 AM, David Golden wrote: > > * Perl-OSType > > If you want a third, I could also help maintain this. > >

Re: Passing some torches

2016-04-03 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > I think it would make sense for me to be the backup for Perl-OSType. > I'll add you as well. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Passing some torches

2016-04-03 Thread David Golden
I realize what I said wasn't clear. I consider Leon to be "primary" maintainer... even if not reflected in the PAUSE permissions. I had considered myself his backup, and hope someone else will step up into that role. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:32 AM, David Golden wrote: > Ma

Re: Passing some torches

2016-04-03 Thread David Golden
e it is indeed quite straightforward > (along with whoever else in the gang is interested). > > I won't object to additional comaint bits on any of the other > distributions you listed (the more the merrier, for redundancy) but cannot > make any promises as to bandwidth for process

Passing some torches

2016-04-03 Thread David Golden
ial): * Perl-OSType * CPAN-Meta-YAML Regards, David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread David Golden
cleanup day?) But adding river position would be a nice touch. If someone wants to have all deletions go into an RSS feed or whatever, that's fine with me because it won't clog my inbox. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-23 Thread David Golden
s@ is the right list and suspect the frequency is rare. (Maybe Andreas has statistics on it?) Could you please open a PAUSE ticket for that idea? -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-23 Thread David Golden
removal (a) has several reasonable uses and (b) doesn't stop authors from mass-breaking dependents if they want to, I see no reason to prohibit it. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-23 Thread David Golden
ransfer control to a PAUSE-controlled ID. (Effectively, https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/169 ) Thoughts? David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread David Golden
adding an FAQ somewhere about namespaces that are reserved but not on CPAN and suggest contacting permission holder or PAUSE admins. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Looking for prior art on conventions for dep-listing

2016-03-01 Thread David Golden
ing it here so that it's findable in the list archives for posterity. I'll let Peter follow up with his own clarification of what he wants. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Looking for prior art on conventions for dep-listing

2016-03-01 Thread David Golden
| cpanm, so that prove -l will work". > > cpanm --installdeps . You can do "cpan ." but it installs the module if tests succeed. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Looking for prior art on conventions for dep-listing

2016-03-01 Thread David Golden
(and the kitchen sink, unclear whether > --author or --develop or both) > `dzil authordeps --missing` (only the defective kitchen sinks) > > > Are there other things out there targeting the same problem-domain? Is > there something approaching a "cross-tooling convent

Re: Why do we keep using META.json for stuff that has nothing to do with installation

2016-02-27 Thread David Golden
as to upgrade their JSON parser. I can live with that. If the problem is with MYMETA, I have no problem having MYMETA strip out everything but absolutely essential fields – but then affected users have to upgrade their EU::MM/M::B, which is no better than having them upgrade their JSON parser, s

Re: Response to Rik's "Credit the first uploader" post

2016-02-17 Thread David Golden
Related ticket: * https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/169 (do not permit dropping all permissions on indexed modules) On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:04 AM, David Golden wrote: > This is my braindump response to > https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2096 > > I'm not clear on w

Response to Rik's "Credit the first uploader" post

2016-02-15 Thread David Golden
admin process to encourage co-maints to propose ADOPTME status when appropriate * have MetaCPAN/etc. show primary + comaints as owners of distributions rather than uploader * have MetaCPAN/etc. give indicators of primary + comaint CPAN activity in general * have MetaCPAN/etc. keep authors+contributors+uploaders in an orthogonal list of "contributors". David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread David Golden
>> correlation between dists that don’t have a META file and dists that > haven’t > >> listed all prereqs (eg in the Makefile.PL). > >> > >> That said, I’m really just experimenting here, trying to find things > that > >> are useful indicators for whether a dist is good to rely on. > >> > >> Neil > >> > > > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-22 Thread David Golden
> > At some point I’ll share the slides from my talk, but slideshare doesn’t > handle keynote presentations, and the exported powerpoint from keynote is > broken (neither powerpoint nor slideshare can handle it!) > > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg

Re: Fwd: [ExtUtils-MakeMaker] the future of EUMM's developmentmodel(#242)

2015-11-09 Thread David Golden
al action you can take to move things forward so we don't keep spinning in discussion. Regards, David On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:55 PM, bulk88 wrote: > David Golden wrote: > >> BINGOS does many CPAN releases for PTG modules for a number of years >> now but

Re: Fwd: [ExtUtils-MakeMaker] the future of EUMM's development model(#242)

2015-10-30 Thread David Golden
t problems were discovered later after release. This may indicate a failure of the release testing process. > Who gave him a commit bit (not my question)? > > Probably me, under the general principle that anyone credibly wanting to participate should get a bit until they abuse that tr

Fwd: [ExtUtils-MakeMaker] the future of EUMM's development model (#242)

2015-10-28 Thread David Golden
I'm highlighting this for the full list to be aware of and contribute to. -- Forwarded message -- From: "bulk88" Date: Oct 28, 2015 6:27 PM Subject: [ExtUtils-MakeMaker] the future of EUMM's development model (#242) To: "Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker" < extutils-makema...@

Re: Backpan mirror?

2015-09-15 Thread David Golden
Ah, right. It's private. I suggest you email the Perl NOC and ask for private rsync access. I think supporting CPXXXAN makes a good case for it. David On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:14 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:04:50PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > >

Re: Backpan mirror?

2015-09-15 Thread David Golden
ters.org: Connection refused > (111) > > Can someone recommend another place I can do my daily rsync from? > > -- > David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" > > Irregular English: > you have anecdotes; they have data; I have proof > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

The Update Framework

2015-08-27 Thread David Golden
I'm not sure if/how we'd ever do something like this, but I thought it might be food for thought: http://theupdateframework.com/ -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Dependency List Approval / Problems for ExtUtils::Manifest

2015-06-22 Thread David Golden
fterwards. But it's been a while since I looked really closely at the build order. I *think* that if you're talking test-time depndencies, all the XS stuff should be built by the time tests run, but someone would have to check that. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Dependency List Approval / Problems for ExtUtils::Manifest

2015-06-22 Thread David Golden
d that only needs to be upgraded on 5.8 perls. TTDT tests well back to 5.8.1: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-TempDir-Tiny+0.004. So... XS concern is an XY problem? :-) David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Identify ways downstream distros use a given distro; include test in test suite

2015-06-10 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:54 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > > Is there any prior art for it? > https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::DependentModules Though I think that just runs downriver tests, not scrapes their usage in any way. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Perl-toolchain-gang -- using devel branches rather than master

2015-06-08 Thread David Golden
anges and make "master" the default branch again. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: RFC: Fixing fallback tempdir location on Win32

2015-05-21 Thread David Golden
FYI: I filed the USERPROFILE suggestion here: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104611

Re: RFC: Fixing fallback tempdir location on Win32

2015-05-21 Thread David Golden
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: > > Only tested on Win7; is seems to append a backslash to it: +1 Thank you! -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: RFC: Fixing fallback tempdir location on Win32

2015-05-21 Thread David Golden
First, I'd want someone to check if it returns %USERPROFILE% exactly or some path under it. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

RFC: Fixing fallback tempdir location on Win32

2015-05-21 Thread David Golden
/rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60340 (two tickets merged) PathTools tickets * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76663 * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96863 -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Examples of things not to do upriver

2015-05-20 Thread David Golden
We should put together a list of examples. Here's one: * depending on 3rd party e.g. certs https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104150 -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Perl-toolchain-gang -- using devel branches rather than master

2015-05-19 Thread David Golden
ile we wait for TRIAL releases to stabilize. I think this will be a good practice for the PTG in general. Thoughts? David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: TRIAL dists shipping today

2015-05-19 Thread David Golden
frustrating, it's an example of the system "working" in that rather then carelessly shipping these and hoping for the best, I've been more methodical before release and hopefully these new TRIAL dists will be suitable for stable. David On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:51 AM, David Gold

TRIAL dists shipping today

2015-05-19 Thread David Golden
r any issues and let me know ASAP. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Measuring water quality of the CPAN river

2015-05-10 Thread David Golden
Proportional diff size between stable releases David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Handling policy commitment disputes [was: Berlin Consensus document posted]

2015-05-09 Thread David Golden
rs. > That's a great point that I'll try to remember to include in my annotated version. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Berlin Consensus document posted to toolchain-site

2015-05-09 Thread David Golden
https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/blob/master/berlin-consensus.md I've posted the Berlin Consensus document. I'll be working on my "annotated" version with color commentary for my blog over the next week or so. Regards, David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread David Golden
-How-to-Create-Install-and-Use I'm sure there are many more. David P.S. Regarding the bus factor of consensus agreements, while it may be invisible, the PTG has them: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue

2015-05-04 Thread David Golden
ock the DB return or extract the DB result directly without using the Cursor code didn't repro, at least within my patience to run the test code in a tight loop four times in parallel for many minutes. It also seems related to the use of Try::Tiny as replacing that with an eval didn't repro. Da

Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

2015-05-02 Thread David Golden
GI application. I've emailed Neil about following up with the author. So I don't see "Test2" as a non-starter. It's a natural namespace to use for this and won't disrupt anything already on CPAN. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

2015-05-02 Thread David Golden
ramework that fixes many long standing issues is already there. > Exactly. People who want old and stable can choose it. People who want new and hopefully-stable can choose it. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

2015-05-02 Thread David Golden
* libraries and I suspect that they could be forked to use Test::Builder2 trivially, as few of them wind up needing the interesting new bits. Only the Test::* modules that were monkey patching or can take advantage of hooks would need any real revision. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

2015-05-02 Thread David Golden
that horror show in Dancer/Dancer2 around plugins. I think that if we ship a Test::More2, then such a release should encourage people to leave Test::Foo alone and fork it to Test::Foo2 instead. Then a new ecosystem can build up around it without sacrificing the existing one. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue

2015-05-02 Thread David Golden
good enough without a provable hypothesis of what's causing it and what changed in Test::More to make it start to show up and how any fix rectifies or works around the problem. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-05-01 Thread David Golden
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > Do we just accept that stuff might go flowing downriver? I certainly hope not. I think we incorporate what we've learned into discussions going forward. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-05-01 Thread David Golden
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Peter Rabbitson wrote: > On 04/30/2015 11:23 PM, David Golden wrote: > >> I'll accept his statement that his way of expressing his point of view is >> innocent rather than malicious. >> > > It really does not matter to

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
for a constructive conversation about code. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
n on the > problem) > I can do that, but probably not this week due to work issues. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
udit today, and release _110 with ONLY >> doc changes tonight. If there is no churn for 1 full week the spot checkers >> can be sure I have nothing left to change and I consider it release-ready, >> and they can do their spot checks. >> >> -Chad >> > > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: On the current Test::More-to-be

2015-04-29 Thread David Golden
l in the experimental stage — with all the code churn that implies — then's lets just accept that. In that case, I think the best course of action is for Chad to split it out from Test-Simple and release it to CPAN. Let an ecosystem build around it and after it achieves stability, then we can reconsider using it as the basis for Test::Builder at a later date. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: File::Temp/File::Spec problems on Windows under taint mode – breaking change needed?

2015-04-27 Thread David Golden
_CACHE looks like the best choice for temporary data. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: File::Temp/File::Spec problems on Windows under taint mode – breaking change needed?

2015-04-24 Thread David Golden
gt; not sure quite where it falls. > In Berlin we said that that the "toolchain charter" meant discussing major/breaking changes in a publicly archived venue -- and we picked this existing one to start. I hope we'll see more technical discussions of this sort going forward. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

File::Temp/File::Spec problems on Windows under taint mode – breaking change needed?

2015-04-23 Thread David Golden
tive. Thoughts? -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: configure_requires ...

2014-11-23 Thread David Golden
g) and having the "missing > out-of-the-box > configure_requires before 5.14" limitation - could there be a way to hack > around that "mis-"using Makefile's config-target? > > Just an idea - unproved and not reflected at all ... > > Cheers > -- > Jens Rehsack > rehs...@gmail.com > > > > > > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: RFC Consensus on Network testing ENV?

2014-06-11 Thread David Golden
ly on testers to set such variables. -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: RFC Consensus on Network testing ENV?

2014-06-11 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > "Has the user in question granted permission to use the internet". I disagree with the premise that one needs to ask. Users are already running arbitrary Perl code and must take responsibility for anything that it might do and not run it i

Re: RFC Consensus on Network testing ENV?

2014-06-11 Thread David Golden
rather than rely on testers to declare capabilities. use Test::RequiresInternet; # or skip_all Or, if particular hosts/ports need to be reachable: use Test::RequiresInternet { "www.google.com" => 80 }; David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-03 Thread David Golden
about this such that under PUREPERL_ONLY, make never compiles the extension, and then the main module doesn't just try bootstrap inside eval{} but actually checks to see if the extension is in @INC. If so, bootstrap it or die; if not, fall back to pure Perl. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-02 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > If I have my system set up to support XS then I want it to use XS, and > if for some reason it can’t, then there is a bug somewhere that needs to > be fixed, so I do *not* want it to silently give me the PP version and > carry on, but to

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-02 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Web-Search for "CPAN Testers magic strings" doesn't provide suitable > results - is there a list of those magic results? http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes > If I would know what is expected, I will make Config::AutoConf behave.

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-02 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > Am 02.06.2014 um 13:34 schrieb David Golden : > >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Jens Rehsack wrote: >>> Others (eg. packagers) have always a compiler and want benefit from XS when >>> available a

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-02 Thread David Golden
compiler, give them XS or give them death (d) if there isn't a compiler, give them PP If for (c) that means running tests under some "XS-only" flag of your own, that's fine with me. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

2014-06-01 Thread David Golden
ation to ask on ML. So what do others > think - how should PUREPERL_ONLY=0 being interpreted? > > Cheers > -- > Jens Rehsack > rehs...@gmail.com > > > > > -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: More problems with 'perlbrew'

2014-05-20 Thread David Golden
ur perlbrew is installed in ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/ then that ought to be the fatpacked version. So either you weren't running the fatpacked version or something has come unglued and is stomping on your PATH. That's hard to diagnose without access to your system. David -- David Golden Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Configuring a new machine in an up-to-date way

2014-01-19 Thread David Golden
other little features, like "newperl 18.2t" should install a threaded version of v5.18.2 as "18.2t" so you can "use 18.2t" to make that active. Perlbrew appears to have an "install-multiple" command that can install threaded/non-threaded variants, etc.

Re: RT #36539: Edge cases in "find_perl" algorithms

2013-09-07 Thread David Golden
most specific > versions first. (Module::Build and CPANPLUS not affected) > > Add perlX.Y.Z to the filename search. (MB and CP not affected) > > Add a warning when we cannot find $^X and must fall back to > another filename. (MB and CP not affected) > > Look for "$cwd/$^X" only when $^X is ./perl or ../perl. > (all affected) > > Compare myconfig of the found perl and the perl we were run with > to better ensure we found the right Perl. (MB already does this. > CP not affected as it does not search for Perl) > > I'll patch up MakeMaker to do this and provide a patch for CPAN.pm. If I'm > feeling gung-ho I might do CPANPLUS and Module::Build, too. -- David Golden Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

2013-03-19 Thread David Golden
someone installing "foo::bar" (intentionally or by accident in a dependency chain) to overwrite an existing "Foo/Bar.pm" David -- David Golden Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

2013-03-18 Thread David Golden
red out last year: > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.workers/2012/03/msg997.html Rik and I have done the code work for PAUSE. Just the pull request to Andreas is pending. David -- David Golden Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

2013-03-14 Thread David Golden
t; mistake), but not a few were uploaded by different but authorized > authors who probably forgot to update the version. It may be useful to > check their release date, but not sure if it always works. > > > 2013/3/14 David Golden : >> tl;dr: non-unique distribu

Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

2013-03-14 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ruslan Zakirov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:31 AM, David Golden wrote: >> (2) rt.cpan.org treated both distributions as having the same RT >> queue. I gained administrative access to BinGOs' existing queues. > > Just to make

Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

2013-03-13 Thread David Golden
hat intentionally, not default to it through apathy. -- David Notes: [1] The Metabase backend for CT correctly distinguishes reports by distfile, but this is not yet reflected downstream in reporting. [2] See http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/308/packages-modules-and-distributions/ -- David Golden Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg

Re: [rt.cpan.org #78246] Install failure with CPAN.pm: Alert: no Build file available for 'make '

2012-08-13 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > Hi cpan-workers, > > Can any of you make soup from this report? I have no idea what's going > on, specially because «relaunching the install just after now works». > I don't even know if this is an issue with Module::Build::Tiny or > CPAN.p

Re: namespaces that differ only in case

2012-04-04 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > The uppercase INTEGER.pm does not actually exists (even though the > broken fs is saying yes to -e)?  If so, this is a bug in the cpan shell > (albeit one which requires a big workaround to deal with the broken > fs.) I'm not sure there is a r

Fwd: [perl #99212] Breech of personal information on CPAN

2011-09-18 Thread David Golden
FYI. Another case of files needing to be purged from PAUSE/CPAN/BackPAN. I'm not sure whether there should be a process for confirming "takedowns" or not. -- David -- Forwarded message -- From: Charles Hamilton Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [perl #99212] Bree

Re: Ports list - is it being maintained?

2011-02-17 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > We at perl.org took it over recently but haven't gotten this sort of thing > setup yet.  (First order of business was getting the mirror list maintained > again, we setup a process for that and Henk Penning is now maintaining the > list

Re: Ports list - is it being maintained?

2011-02-17 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:43:44 -0500, David Golden said: > >  > That raises a broader question. >  > Who maintains all of the non tarball content on CPAN and what is the >  > process for gettin

Re: Ports list - is it being maintained?

2011-02-17 Thread David Golden
That raises a broader question. Who maintains all of the non tarball content on CPAN and what is the process for getting it changed? -- David On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Leo Lapworth wrote: > Hi, > > Is http://www.cpan.org/ports/ being maintained by anyone? > > http://www.cpan.org/ports/#o

Re: Can anyone give me access to an authenticating proxy server for testing?

2010-11-03 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: >  http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BOOK/HTTP-Proxy-0.24/eg/proxy-auth.pl > > (Wherein "here's an ID and password" is in the comments on line 8.) Fabulous. Of course, I should have checked CPAN first. I'm testing HTTP::Lite with CPAN shortly. I

Re: Can anyone give me access to an authenticating proxy server for testing?

2010-11-03 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2010, at 20:12, David Golden wrote: > >> I want to experiment with CPAN.pm and authenticating proxies.  Can >> anyone give me access to a proxy server? > > Install squid on your laptop? I was hopin

Can anyone give me access to an authenticating proxy server for testing?

2010-11-02 Thread David Golden
I want to experiment with CPAN.pm and authenticating proxies. Can anyone give me access to a proxy server? Thanks, David

Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

2010-09-27 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:59:27AM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: >> On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:17, David Cantrell wrote: >> > While we're on the subject of RECENT*, what is RECENT-Z.yaml?  And will >> > it ever be updated?  At a glance, it appe

Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

2010-09-27 Thread David Golden
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote: > As has been mentioned, there are far > more significant sysadmin issues than the web front end, so I'm not > currently looking for feedback as I know it can be improved :) Despite waving off feedback, I'll give you mine anyway. :-) As a sho

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