Looking for a co-maintainer for Sys::SigAction

2022-03-11 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
Hello Perl Module authors, and Pause Admins, I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the interest, to continue to maintain Sys::SigAction. (https://metacpan.org/pod/Sys::SigAction).  SigAction as been incredibly stable for years, with the exception of of the fact that perl 5.31.6 and

Re: Fwd: module-authors: ezmlm warning about ipv6 misconfig

2019-05-30 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
I have received similar bounce notifications. My email is hosted at gmail (gsuite). (It just got easier than running my on email server)/ Does anyone know what is going on? Is google implementing new restrictions? (maybe it is time to open a help request with gsuite). Lincoln On Mon,

Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name

2016-09-11 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
On Sat, 2016-09-10 at 14:46 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:58:35AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > * John M. Gamble [2016-09-09 22:12]: > > > Technically it's math, but I suspect people would be more likely > to use > > > the keyword 'boolean', or

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-07-30 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 12:58 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: In case you don't have time to follow the many blog post of the Perl community I think this is an item worth reading for you as a Module Author. Don't be left out from the new CPAN game! This Week in MetaCPAN by Olaf Alders

How do I contact cpan testers who have submitted failed test reports

2008-10-15 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
Hi All, I am in the process of getting ready to submit a new release of Sys::SigAction, as a result of a bug (with patch) that was opened recently. So I decided to look at the test results and see if I could figure out what is valid and what is not. In the case of Win32 OSes I am going to just

Re: What name for a printer status supplies module?

2004-12-17 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 21:21 +0100, David Landgren wrote: List, I have some code that queries an HP LaserJet 4600 printer to retrieve a web page, that I then scrape to pick out the values of the various consumables it has (CMYK cartridges and other kits). The fact that it uses http is

Re: Compress::Bzip2 patch, can't reach author

2004-12-11 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 08:16 +0100, David Landgren wrote: David Robins wrote: I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; I sent it to the maintainer (Marco Carnut, http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't reply. The patch: - fixes a bug with compressing

Re: [rfc] File::Corruption

2004-10-18 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 05:02, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: This is sort of side note but I really like File::Integrity. Although, I sort of feel that namespace should be a module that will check the integrity of any file where as my code is somewhat more specialized. Perhaps a long term goal will be

Re: Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-20 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:54, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Alves de Castro) writes: I don't want to show the results of a search. I want to say Here is the link to the module list. See how long it is? It contains practically everything you need, doesn't it?

Re: Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-18 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 17:57, Mark Stosberg wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:54:32PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I propose eliminating the Long Module List. I'm talking about http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html (2998 modules), not http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html

Re: Looking for a new (or co-) maintainer for Net::SSH::Perl and Net::SFTP

2004-07-03 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 13:42, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 12:51, Dave Rolsky wrote: Here, perhaps, is the start of a list: scp tiny file to server and back and diff. scp large file to server and back and diff. (same as above with sftp). scp a file to server, ssh

Re: Application framework namespaces

2004-05-16 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:29, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: I'm working on a web application that is almost 100% perl (the styling is handled in XSL). The entire application's test and installation procedure is managed with a Makefile.PL, and the entire package is very CPAN-ish. I wanted to

Re: New module - (session/authentication) seeking a name

2004-05-15 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
And what does AIS stand for? Or did I miss that. Lincoln On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 19:50, David Nicol wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hadn't heard of AIS before. Sounds like it would make a nice additional authentication method. Part of my TODO is to abstract both the authentication and

Re: Testing output to STDOUT and STDERR

2004-02-08 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 20:00, Andy Lester wrote: While writing tests for some of my code, I was faced with the issue of capturing what the code sends to STDOUT and STDERR. As I have not found a module to make it easy, I wrote a trivial code to do it. It is used like this: I'm not sure

Re: VERSION as (interface,revision) pair and CPAN++

2004-01-28 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
Phew... Only one comment: KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) This is WAY too confusing! No one will be able to figure it out, or want to. What we have now is not really that broken, especially if one regression tests his applications when new versions of modules are installed. Actually, we build

Re: Re3: Re: How about class Foo {...} definition for Perl?

2004-01-18 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 17:34, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrence Brannon) writes: [snip] Does it not belong to the CGI::* namespace? I don't think it belongs in any namespace once it's finally abstracted, since it's sufficiently high level that it's more of an application than a

Re: Possible module for 'safer' signal handling....

2004-01-17 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
I've just requested registration of and uploaded: ftp://pause.perl.org/incoming/Sys-SigAction-0.01.tar.gz Thanks to all who helped in discussing this. Lincoln

Re: Possible module for 'safer' signal handling....

2004-01-12 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 05:46, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 10:09 + 1/12/04, Tim Bunce wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { ... }; } Either way your Sys::SigAction is sufficient. The only thing it's

Re: Possible module for 'safer' signal handling....

2004-01-12 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 04:18, A. Pagaltzis wrote: IMO it would be much neater not to have to separately localize $SIG{ALRM} but to have restoration optionally done by your module on request. I believe the clearest way to handle the syntax would be a check for context in sig_set_handler() and

Re: Date::Iterator, pollution, rating system, and how to make CPAN a better place [was: Re: RFC: Date::Iterator]

2003-12-23 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
, and it keeps Date::* a little less cluttered. -- Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

2003-11-19 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
. Lincoln -- Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]