Re: The format is not the data

2010-01-06 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from brian d foy's message of Wed Jan 06 08:13:56 -0500 2010: Is this in response to something in particular? Your message doesn't have any threading headers, so I'm missing context. hdp.

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like prerequisite: a working libexpat, Need a perl with defined-or, Need root

Re: CMSP 26. Specify a DLSIP resource

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:53:50 -0400 2009: 26. Specify a DLSIP resource Proposal: DLSIP codes should be specified in META.* as a resource. My impression of DLSIP is that it's nearly as unused as the modules list. Is this inaccurate? hdp.

Re: CMSP 12. Allow Sequences (Arrays) for Prereqs

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:57 -0400 2009: 12. Allow Sequences (Arrays) for Prereqs Proposal: Right now, to the best of my knowledge, the only benefit of a the magic Bundle:: namespace is that its prerequisites can be declared in optimal installation order.

Re: CMSP 20. Make bugtracker resource a hash

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:51:29 -0400 2009: 20. Make bugtracker resource a hash Proposal: The bugtracker resource shoudl be made into a hash that defines different types of resources, e.g. web page, email report address, etc. (#toolchain discussion) Agree,

Re: CMSP 09. Clarify intent of 'recommends' and add 'suggests'

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from Graham Barr's message of Fri Oct 09 09:43:42 -0400 2009: one option could be though that the failure for a recommended dependency to install could still allow the dependent to install On one hand, maybe this would be useful for things that e.g. offer a mod_perl interface, and

Re: CMSP 08. Extensibly Group Prereqs

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 09:59:22 -0400 2009: I would like to specify in a usage section what is expected of downstream parts of the toolchain. This is probably a good idea for all the proposals. hdp.

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2008-04-10 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
hello hdp.