Re: sponsor logo on home of CPAN mirror

2017-12-30 Thread Zefram
Henk P. Penning wrote: > -- add a javascript function "hostedby()" > -- add an empty in the "footer_mirror" section I certainly approve of only showing the logo to people who run JavaScript. -zefram

Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

2017-09-20 Thread Zefram
James E Keenan wrote: >Would anyone know of any prior art for detection of "short edit distances"? >(Perhaps even already on CPAN?) Text::Levenshtein. -zefram

Re: When cpanm fails to find any of the files in a kit

2016-09-09 Thread Zefram
t been installed into blib/lib, with the build step being broken by the same thing that broke the MANIFEST check. >Do you know what could have caused this? I'm mystified as to how that could happen. Need to poke around an example of it to debug further. -zefram

Re: Need dependency-free way of capturing verbose function output in a variable

2015-07-19 Thread Zefram
James E Keenan wrote: That leaves only the problem of capturing STDOUT close(STDOUT); open(STDOUT, , \$captured_stdout); -zefram

Re: Need dependency-free way of capturing verbose function output in a variable

2015-07-19 Thread Zefram
in those cases. It incidentally leaves *STDOUT{IO} empty, so that an explicit close is no longer required before the reopen. -zefram

Re: namespaces that differ only in case

2012-04-03 Thread Zefram
(mangle) these names for case-incapable filesystems is a bug. We should not pander to that bug; we should fix it. -zefram

Re: namespaces that differ only in case

2012-03-31 Thread Zefram
point INST_FILE /home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.14.2-i32-f52/lib/5.14.2/integer.pm INST_VERSION 1.00 cpan[3] m INTEGER Module id = INTEGER CPAN_USERID SHERZODR (Sherzod Ruzmetov sherz...@cpan.org) CPAN_VERSION 1.93 CPAN_FILES/SH/SHERZODR/Class-PObject-2.17

Re: Proposed CPAN::Meta patch: Version comparison, conversion, 999 problems

2010-04-21 Thread Zefram
to the strict syntax that has been carefully worked out for version.pm. The meta spec should continue to conform to the strict syntax unless there's an overwhelmingly good reason to deviate from it. -zefram

Re: optional_features key names

2009-12-15 Thread Zefram
David Golden wrote: Right now, the draft says an identifier and that term could be defined further. I take identifier, without further explanation, to mean /[A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*/. Not anything involving \w, note. -zefram

Re: CMSP 17. Better formalization of license field

2009-11-03 Thread Zefram
. I know for a fact that in Finnish law an author cannot give away his rights, and the same applies in other European countries. So public domain isn't necessarily even a null license. -zefram

Re: CMSP 21. Formalize optional_features

2009-10-11 Thread Zefram
of another distro in the normal manner. -zefram

Re: CMSP 17. Better formalization of license field

2009-10-11 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: CMSP 26. Specify a DLSIP resource

2009-10-11 Thread Zefram
. Possibly the DLSI items also should be, as individual items encoded in the META style. (D has already been proposed.) Then one could generate the DLSIP code from the META file, if really desired. -zefram

Re: CMSP 29. Language

2009-10-11 Thread Zefram
its own namespace for modules. We should also have a way to specify language as part of a dependency name, to manage cross-language dependencies. Doing those suggests that language could be consistently stated in META as part of the module name, rather than needing a separate field. -zefram

Re: CMSP 06. Data structures, not YAML

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
of Perl syntax already defined. I needed to implement it a while ago for work purposes, and now it's on CPAN, as Data::Pond. It's similar in spirit to JSON, which of course gives the same kind of parsing choice for the JavaScript language. -zefram

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
testing really is a distinct job from building. Consumers of META information should be expected to merge phase-specific requirements in whatever way is suitable for their workflow; we can't reliably predict what that workflow will be. -zefram

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

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
. The META file is completely the wrong place for this sort of information. -zefram

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

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
, so we could sensibly list them in META in a formal manner. CPAN installation tools should learn to track this sort of dependency and plug into the OS's packaging mechanism. -zefram

Re: CMSP 13. Add a post_depends set

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
. -zefram

Re: CMSP 14. Prerequisites should be mutually exclusive

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
once then the dependencies that an install tool must gather for one of the phases would have to implicitly include all the dependencies listed for the other phase. It would grossly compromise the separation of phases. -zefram

Re: CMSP 17. Better formalization of license field

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
, in those cases that are adequately described by a widely-used license. In the unusual cases where no defined keyword suffices, machine readability (beyond recognising that this is the case) is a lot less important. -zefram