Re: Which namespace for a build system?

2004-09-07 Thread Sam Vilain
A. Pagaltzis wrote: The question I'd ask is, is there established Computer Science terminology for the problem a dependency solver addresses? That probably requires determining what kind of field the problem falls into. I have a hunch that that would be AI. How about a "Dependancy Algorithm" ? :-)

Re: OT: File::Spec documentation (was: Circular dependencies in PREREQ_PM)

2004-09-07 Thread Andy Lester
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:33:48PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I have hereby volunteered myself, I shall gladly take this > task upon myself -- just let me know. How far back have you looked? I just sent Ken a bunch of patches to clean it up and use more markup. It's most

Re: Which namespace for a build system?

2004-09-07 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Khemir Nadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-27 12:35]: > So my question boild down to this. Where do we put development, > dependencies, dev tools, build systems. What ever is suggested > I'll have hell of a time going through all the code and change > it (yes I do have a bunch of PBS::XX::YY::Sub(

OT: File::Spec documentation (was: Circular dependencies in PREREQ_PM)

2004-09-07 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-27 21:16]: > For this reason, I'm planning to roll File::Spec and Cwd into a > single distribution. Say, is there any chance we'll ever have the horrible mess in the File::Spec POD cleaned up? It would be nice if the File::Spec documentation didn't just