Re: Found rare bug in Pod::Simple

2016-03-06 Thread Sawyer X
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > [...] > As you can see, it first checks for no extension. Also note that it’s not > checking for the ‘.plx’ extension, which survey handles. I’ve never come > across anyone using the .plx extensions, but I guess for a while maybe > people did: >

Re: Found rare bug in Pod::Simple

2016-03-06 Thread Neil Bowers
>> There are two CPAN Testers fails: >> >> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/4ddcddb1-6c58-1014-bec3-a1032b7077ee >> >> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/39970866-dd9c-11e5-a3ee-89603848fe5a > > Do you have any thoughts on why these occurred on these particular OS/Perl > v

Re: Working on Pod-Simple

2016-03-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 14:44:46 + Neil Bowers wrote: > A few weeks ago I mailed that I was planning to work on improving things in > modules at the head of the river. The first of these is Pod::Simple. I’m > slowly working towards a PR with various changes, and doing developer > releases (with Ma

Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Hi, don't know if this was ever discussed. Two examples of unused namespaces: 1) Algorithm::LCS Algorithm::LCS MJD 06-Sep-1998 MJD later renamed the dist to Algorithm::Diff Algorithm-LCS-1.04 CHORNY 11-Aug-2003 unauthorized Part of this source is used by AlgorithmDiff::XS 2) Language::Guess

Re: Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread Alberto Simoes
On 06/03/16 14:46, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: At least it's a little bit boring that authors "first come, do nothing". That is true, but you can always 1) try to contact the first coming author, 2) in no luck, poke modules mailing list asking for perms. It's not optimal. But it should work

Re: Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer < helmut.wollmersdor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would be nice to discuss freeing the reservation of namespaces > after some time without usage. IMHO 3 years should be enpough. There are a lot of namespaces in the 06perms file that aren't in