Re: Dorset perl code

2003-09-25 Thread Adrian Howard
On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 12:40 Europe/London, Andy Ford wrote: Do you use a lot of r's in your Perl code. my $eeer; my $arrr; Talk Like A Pirate Day is over now y'know :-) my $tractor; my $combineharvester; my $ooarr; ;0) Does that mean that London.pm coders are full my $gor_blimey ; my @a

Well, maybe there's hope for more buffy yet. Or flying pigs...

2003-09-25 Thread David H. Adler
Doctor Who returns to BBC Television: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3140786.stm Get a PAL->NTSC converter ready for me, ok? :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ My theory is that his ignorance clouded his poor judgement.

Re: Get it while it's hot

2003-09-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:44:37PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > It seems that 5.8.1 has been released: > > http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/ > > > > UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE !!! but first Read perldelta http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/perldelta.pod Read perldelta http:

Get it while it's hot

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Wilcox
It seems that 5.8.1 has been released: http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/ UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE !!! Simon. -- "I'm a one-man idiot"

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Philip Newton
On 25 Sep 2003 at 7:56, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I dealt recently with an author who has only an autoresponder at his > PAUSE-registered email address, telling people to go to a web page to > get his *real* email address, hidden as an image. Funny, I just got back from reading http://www.perl

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Nick" == Nick Cleaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nick> I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix Nick> security problems in response to emails for over a year, but had a new Nick> version up within a couple of days being RTed about it. I dealt recently with an

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
David Cantrell wrote: I'll do the RT dance and give him a few days to respond. Does RT email the original author, or does it rely on authors regularly checking it? Cos I certainly don't check for RT tickets on my modules. Hello, David. As a RT admin (I run one for my company), I can assure you

Re: Exceptions

2003-09-25 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Nigel Rantor wrote: > Graham Barr wrote: > > At one time I was going to re-write it as a source filter. Using > > anonymous subs has all sorts of unwanted side effects, one being memory > > leaks in earlier versions of perl. > > Hmm...I have never looked into source filters

Re: Dorset perl code

2003-09-25 Thread Jasper McCrea
Andy Ford wrote: > > Do you use a lot of r's in your Perl code. > > my $eeer; > my $arrr; > my $tractor; > my $combineharvester; > my $ooarr; Surely moiii $tracter; ? Jasper (probably sounded better in moiii head)

Re: Exceptions

2003-09-25 Thread Nigel Rantor
Graham Barr wrote: [snip] Whenever I have mucked about with this I have opted to use Graham's Error.pm module. I may have wrote it initially, but it is now maintained by someone else. Well, I will always think of it as your's honey. :-) I'm really looking for two things. 1) If anyone has any ide

Dorset perl code

2003-09-25 Thread Andy Ford
Do you use a lot of r's in your Perl code. my $eeer; my $arrr; my $tractor; my $combineharvester; my $ooarr; ;0) Andy On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 23:27, Adrian Howard wrote: > On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 16:16 Europe/London, Andy Ford wrote: > > > I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Gareth Kirwan
> Due to lack of anyone else suitably brave to decide on a Pub location > for Surrey.pm, the one suggestion that was seconded will hereby be the > designated location for the first (to my knowledge) Surrey.pm meet. Urgh. Would love to make it but my car is with the tuners right now :o( G

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Andy Wardley
Nicholas Clark wrote: > You mean that you don't want to come to the london.pm social meeting that > evening? Awww.bollocks! A

Re: from Swindon to the social meeting next week

2003-09-25 Thread Andy Ford
The extra dosh is insurance against the track falling to pieces. Insurance for them of course, not you ;0) Andy On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:09, Marty Pauley wrote: > I'm going to be in Swindon for the next few months, so I thought I'd get > the train to London next Thursday evening for the meeting.

Re: from Swindon to the social meeting next week

2003-09-25 Thread Juliet Kemp
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:09:40PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote: > I'm going to be in Swindon for the next few months, so I thought I'd get > the train to London next Thursday evening for the meeting. This seemed > like a great idea, until the train people tried to charge me ?56 for > a ticket! Does

Crash space 2nd (3rd) - 5th (6th) Oct. 2003

2003-09-25 Thread Claes Jacobsson
Hey, It looks like I'll be in London between the 2nd (or 3rd) - 5th (or 6th) of October. Plan is to have beer w/ you londoners. Is there a possibility that anyone can provide crash space for this period? Cheers, Claes

Buffy

2003-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
Buffy is in the OED! http://www.oed.com/public/news/0309_2.htm about two thirds of the way down. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will make

from Swindon to the social meeting next week

2003-09-25 Thread Marty Pauley
I'm going to be in Swindon for the next few months, so I thought I'd get the train to London next Thursday evening for the meeting. This seemed like a great idea, until the train people tried to charge me £56 for a ticket! Does it really cost £56 to get a train from Swindon to London and back aga

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: > Or I'm totally, definately free next thursday if we want to change > the date or do it again. You mean that you don't want to come to the london.pm social meeting that evening? Nicholas Clark

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Andy Wardley
Simon Luff wrote: > I'm up for this, who else we got? Ooops! A major foul up on my part, I'm afraid. I forgot to check with my Good Lady Wife, and it turns out I'm supposed to be babysitting. Can't find anyone else to take my place at this short notice. Bugger. As they say. I can be there ear

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Graham Barr
On 25 Sep 2003, at 10:45, David Cantrell wrote: What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? I've tried to contact the author of Data::Compare twice now to report bugs, with no response in nearly a month. Should I just upload a new version to CPAN and take over maintenance

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Damon Allen DAVISON
Eric Raymond talks about the etiquette of open source software ownership in his article "Homesteading the Noosphere" (a chapter from his book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar": I'll quote to save you the trouble of looking: : There

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:09:16AM +0100, Patrick Mulvany wrote: > http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2264 > > Subject Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault > Created Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003 > Updated Sun Sep 7 02:33:41 2003 > > Got fixed in the end but ended up replacing the module w

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Patrick Mulvany
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:56:56AM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:45:13AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? > > I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix > security problems in re

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:45:13AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix security problems in response to emails for over a year, but had a new version up within a coup

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Luff
howdy, I'm up for this, who else we got? > Due to lack of anyone else suitably brave to decide on a Pub location... yeah, I should have been paying more attention but I've only just noticed the conversation.. I've a feeling the Weyside won't work out longer term as a venue but I can certainly m

Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? I've tried to contact the author of Data::Compare twice now to report bugs, with no response in nearly a month. Should I just upload a new version to CPAN and take over maintenance? -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry

Sophos buys Activestate

2003-09-25 Thread Tony Kennick
My Inbox this morning has an announcement that Sophos has bought Activestate for their anti-spam products. The release does contain this reassurance however: "ActiveState's product lines for open source programmers will continue to be developed and sold under the ActiveState brand. As a division