Re: Need suggestions for a module name

2011-06-17 Thread Nadim Khemir
information about time or the number of iteration File::Temp::FromContext ... my less than 2 cents Nadim +++ Robert Rothenberg [Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:23:50PM +0100]: While debugging a project that generated a lot of temporary files, I came upon a nifty idea: rather than name the temporary files

Re: Module naming - Test::Import::DontRun

2010-10-07 Thread nadim khemir
I must admit that I didn't get what you mean. Care to enlighten me with a piece of code, some flow, anything that doesn't make me feel stupid. Nadim.

Re: Module naming - Test::Import::DontRun

2010-10-07 Thread nadim khemir
with better memory than I have will help. And, NO, it's not a stupid idea. Nadim.

Re: Module Naming

2010-10-05 Thread nadim khemir
::Aurora describes a device which purpose it to be a generic serial interface. It _really_ doesn't matter if the module name is a mouth full. Nadim.

Re: Name needed for a module to check whether a binary is GNU

2010-09-13 Thread Nadim Khemir
so not all hope is lost, Nadim. +++ Johan Vromans [Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:04:39PM +0200]: Nadim Khemir na...@khemir.net writes: - too many apps are not under App:: - too many apps are not on CPAN That's because CPAN is module-centric and despite the heroic attempts of me and some others

Re: Name needed for a module to check whether a binary is GNU

2010-09-13 Thread Nadim Khemir
thinking about inheritance and traits. Were does one put a trait that can be used by unrelated classes? IE: what you are looking for is to add a trait to the tar app so it can give you some info about its capabilities Cheers, Nadim +++ David Cantrell [Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:40:14AM +0100]: On Fri

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-13 Thread Nadim Khemir
is fastest. I'm curious, someone care to comment? Nadim. Rate shift copy shift 735294/s-- -1% copy 740741/s1%-- Rate copy shift copy 720461/s-- -3% shift 739645/s3%-- Rate shift copy shift 696379/s-- -6% copy 742611/s7%-- with this code: cmpthese

Re: Name needed for a module to check whether a binary is GNU

2010-09-10 Thread Nadim Khemir
volunteering not just complaining, and I think it can be a lot of fun too) - worst of all, authors don't fill the See Also section anymore Cheers, Nadim +++ David Cantrell [Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:32:04AM +0100]: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:11:18AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Sometimes you need

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-08-21 Thread nadim khemir
am not convinced and as you see above, I did take some time to look around. Don't get me wrong, The more module authors the better. Also, the better the documentation, the more users, the better. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Why are you releasing modules to CPAN?

2010-05-28 Thread nadim khemir
pat myself on the back a bit more. Cheers, Nadim. PS: Gabor, good initiative and great link

Re: Usage of wantarray

2010-05-12 Thread nadim khemir
. If it's too complicated, fuzzy, has bad APIs or doesn't fit one's way of thinking, is too slow or looks like line noise, we have been blessed (no pun intended) with many supra-efficient, controlling-freak, with laser-sculpted APIs, boring languages. People, take your pick. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Yet another module naming suggestion query

2010-04-06 Thread nadim khemir
that sub modules, part of the application, that are of general use should still be rooted in the relevant namespace. Please give us more information or better yet put the documentation on-line. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: configure_requires, build_requires, requires

2010-03-27 Thread nadim khemir
pamphlet? did I miss something useful? Cheers, Nadim.

Re: naming advice required

2009-11-10 Thread nadim
to start the the root namespace sometime. But it is nice of you to think about it. I like modules that are related to applications or implementing applications to start in App:: though. Nadim.

Re: naming advice required

2009-11-05 Thread nadim
of ExtUtil::MakeMaker) and eumm-migrate (to convert Makefile.PL to Build.PL). Both will use Module::Install::Repository to detect repository and NGP to get correct one (in case this one is forked one). so what is your request? Nadim.

Re: module name for test data?

2009-09-29 Thread nadim khemir
the tests. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: should we still be registering module namespaces?

2009-08-17 Thread nadim khemir
On Monday 17 August 2009 16.48.24 Jonathan Swartz wrote: Is there still a point to registering module namespaces on PAUSE? People registering a namespace are the exception. I don't see any need for it.

Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

2009-02-18 Thread nadim khemir
-hashes in the documentation. Anyone who hasn't mistyped a hash key can throw the first stone at 'fields'. Nadim.

Re: Module Proposal: Video::FourCC

2009-01-09 Thread nadim khemir
the data if possible. We need more application oriented modules, I'd like very much to see video editing on CPAN. Maybe an idea for your future modules ;) Good luck with your module, Nadim.

Document::Aggregate

2009-01-09 Thread nadim khemir
there? Would you like to join this project? What would you like to see in it? Cheers, Nadim.

Versioning modules

2008-05-18 Thread nadim khemir
a distribution automatically including the version number but I'm afraid the above is going to draw flames. How do you do? Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Idea: Test::Bundle module

2007-12-26 Thread nadim khemir
a local cpan or on a box without internet connection? My 2 cents, Nadim.

Re: Naming convention for thin wrappers around C libfoo.so ?

2007-12-08 Thread nadim khemir
??? Tim. Most people wrapping a library call it after what it does, hidding the fact that an existing library is used as implementation. That would eliminate anything with 'lib'. Which means that I'll go for '???' Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Module Proposal: Log::Any

2007-09-07 Thread nadim khemir
Source filters can be a solution. very little overhead. I wrote Filter::Uncomment just for that. On Friday 07 September 2007 03:58, John Siracusa wrote: On 9/6/07 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why do CPAN modules eschew the use of these and invent their own mechanisms that are almost

Re: Module Proposal: Package::Data::Inheritable

2007-09-04 Thread nadim khemir
ccan't use constants but the excellent Readonly module does what you want. Nadim.

Syntactic sugar was Module Name

2004-12-29 Thread khemir nadim
it in perl. Cheers, Nadim. PS: I agree that Parse::RecDescent is too slow to be usable but writtin a proper parser is often worth the time compare with an ad-hoc one.

Re: Getopt::Helpful - online help and options

2004-11-12 Thread khemir nadim
and should be supported. I'll contribute a patch if you wish. Cheers, Nadim. Please CC me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't have news at home.

Re: Which namespace for a build system?

2004-08-27 Thread khemir nadim
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() because I don't specialy like the, very absurd, poluting policy modules have) Cheers, Nadim. A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL

Re: Namespace for EUI related modules

2004-08-24 Thread khemir nadim
you are aware of? Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Perspectives on a Namespace

2004-08-20 Thread khemir nadim
Something)) ; and your module would automaticaly load the special cleaning modules passed as parameters. This is what I do in one of my modules. # loads Data-TreeDumper-Renderer-DHTML automatically. DumpTree($tree, 'Tree', RENDERER = 'DHTML'); Cheers, Nadim. Luis Tello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Which namespace for a build system?

2004-08-19 Thread khemir nadim
I'm going to polute witha new top level namespace! PBS:: Don't anyone have any idea of where we should put this type of modules? Devel:: Devel::Build:: Build:: App::BuildSystem I'd appreciate some input. Cheers, Nadim.

Where do people learn how to document a module?

2004-08-16 Thread khemir nadim
is that some modules that have very exciting names and even documentation completely fail to inform me about _what_ the module is for. Isn't that crazy? I read the module, think yeah, that's cool then immediately after euu, when will I ever use this. Am I the only one? Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Perl's Sacrifice Stone

2004-07-14 Thread khemir nadim
Andrew savige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] khemir nadim wrote: I'd love to review the second module that is offered for sacrifice ;-) Anything to offer? How about Apache::MVC? It was posted for review on Simon's code review ladder mailing list in February

Re: Perl's Sacrifice Stone

2004-07-13 Thread khemir nadim
to review the second module that is offered for sacrifice ;-) Anything to offer? Nadim.

Re: Perl's Sacrifice Stone

2004-07-13 Thread khemir nadim
Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, we have: 1) Simon's code review ladder: http://lists.netthink.co.uk/listinfo/code-review-ladder Seems rather dead to me. A very interresting link anyhow. Let's see if we can get more life there 2) Ask's

CPAN Rating Wrap up

2004-07-06 Thread khemir nadim
for the module, etc.. Some thought that there was too much dependency on SourceForge. I hope this wraps it up. I still don't know where/how/when to help to get some changes in place. Cheers, Nadim. Khemir Nadim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I can live

Re: CPAN Rating

2004-06-21 Thread khemir nadim
A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * khemir nadim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-16 13:53]: I once wrote that it would be great to have the equivalent of sourceforge for perl module, the answer I got was use sourceforge. Hmm talk about not answering

Re: Can't contact author. Abandoned module?

2004-06-21 Thread khemir nadim
Hi David, It's just 10 days ago. The author might be on holidays or is too buisy to answer you right now. In the worst case, release you module under a different name for the time being. What about: Benchmark::Timer::Sampling. Cheers, Nadim. David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: New module: CGI::Tooltip

2004-06-21 Thread khemir nadim
at the library)? Cheers, Nadim.

Re: New module: CGI::Tooltip

2004-06-21 Thread khemir nadim
This is exactly wht I wanted to say in my previous post but my post was not phrased as good. I also think the abstract/real hierarchy is a good idea. My last point would be about the library that is used. Is it JavaCscript or something more specific? Cheers, Nadim. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: failures that aren't failures

2004-06-17 Thread khemir nadim
Fergal Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, One of my modules has a failure noted against it that was caused by the tester's wonky Perl installation. How can this be removed? I don't have this problem but my modules sometimes fail on windows platform when

Re: CPAN Rating

2004-06-17 Thread khemir nadim
it come to documentation but unfortunately a dummy (dumb) readme is generated instead for forcing the user to write one. The access to CPAN is not moderated in any way (my anarchist side likes that) but maybe a minimum of control wouldn't hurt (my fascite side like that) Cheers, Nadim PS: I wouldn't

Re: New module: CGI::Tooltip

2004-06-17 Thread khemir nadim
the documentation in one line. -Original Message- From: khemir nadim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it would be appropriate to further catalogue the module name under Java or the name od the specific library you interface with.

Re: CPAN Rating

2004-06-16 Thread khemir nadim
thing is that perl is Huge, lots of developpers, modules and projects but Ruby that is so small does have a rubyforge. Cheers, Nadim. Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What I propose is: My wish is to have a web forum where each module has its own category

Re: CPAN Rating

2004-06-16 Thread khemir nadim
can't (well I could) rate the rest of the module zero when it might have a great potential (which quite a lot of modules have) Lastly, taking one module a week and rate it would be a great help to other perl developers. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Application framework namespaces

2004-05-17 Thread khemir nadim
work. In fact, next time Ill write some kind of framework I'd see that I (seriously) write the technology modules before I do any framework work. Nadim.

Re: advice needed on Lingua::Identification

2004-02-27 Thread khemir nadim
himself, which may contain other languages... I, as a user, wouldn't care which of the above methods you, the author, use if I can: 1/override yours 2/ define mine Hope this helps. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Reshaping the modules list: a starting point, help remove the bias.

2004-02-26 Thread khemir nadim
ask either :-( but later on I understood that Devel was not for this kind of devlopment tools (I'm still wondering why). Now, there is a new pure perl preprocessor module that I want to use instead for 'cpp', I still don't know where to put it! Cheers, Nadim.

Re: [RFC] Text-Balanced 1.96 proposed interface changes: return failure in list context

2004-02-17 Thread khemir nadim
. David, Could you please tell us what you think about the only.pm module, which seems to fix the problem rather well, and how it compares with your solution. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Module lists: defining the problem, restating the goals [was Re: OK, so we've decided...]

2004-02-16 Thread khemir nadim
this make sense? Yes and that's what search.cpan.org already does. Cheers, Nadim.

Re: [RFC] Text-Balanced 1.96 proposed interface changes: return failure in list context

2004-02-16 Thread khemir nadim
version. It's debilitating for a module author to not be able to change interface because someone is using the module. I've seen (and couldn't find it again) some discussion about having multiple versions of a module installed (link someone?) Cheers, Nadim.

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-16 Thread khemir nadim
testers - etc ... I am whilling to have my modules filtered, I hope other do too. I'll also help if I can. Cheers, Nadim. PS: PPM modules vs plain module problems should be fixed too.

Re: OK, so we've decided that the right modules are too hard to find.

2004-02-16 Thread khemir nadim
to help people not do this kind of mistakes. Since I have missed the document, you might be able to point to it instead for telling me that I have missed it. And no, sear.cpan.org isn't a silver bullet though I use it more than cpan.org. Cheers, Nadim. Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Testing output to STDOUT and STDERR

2004-02-10 Thread khemir nadim
a lot of stuff to bundle! I can even arrange to produce unbundled code so you can practice your bundling skills. You can make a reputation as Lester the Bundler. ;-) Nadim.

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

2004-01-30 Thread khemir nadim
questions where handled in a coordinated way. Module devlopers are lazy snakes, they want to sun bath on one stone only! Cheers, Nadim.

Re: Need feedback on module namespaces

2004-01-28 Thread khemir nadim
grepmail : grep program for mailboxes. Currently only supports mbox format. Not sure about the last one. Do/can we register namespaces for scripts? what about grepmbox instead? you can always go to grepmail when you support other formats (like mail spool for instance) Cheers,Nadim.

Re: Spreadsheet::Perl (was New User)

2004-01-19 Thread khemir nadim
Version 0.04 is out. Check out the documentation at: http://search.cpan.org/src/NKH/Spreadsheet-Perl-0.04/README http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/Spreadsheet-Perl-0.04/Perl.pm I still need your input and I still need some help if any brave soul is available. Nadim.

Re: Spreadsheet::Perl (was New User)

2004-01-16 Thread khemir nadim
David Manura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] khemir nadim wrote: I agree that a way of describing a range without naming one of the limits should exist, I just don't know how to make it visually clear. What about 'B1:B*' 'B*:B10' 'B*:B*' ? '*' might

Spreadsheet::Perl (was New User)

2004-01-13 Thread khemir nadim
Hi David, Thank you for your answer. -Original Message- From: David Manura Nadim, This module looks neat. The way speadsheets automatically update data on dependencies, like a continually running makefile, seem to be their main benefit, but they do have some limitations

New User

2004-01-12 Thread khemir nadim
relationship. I have an unreleased build system written in perl (+/- 350 Kb) that is quite fun to use. I'll try to be a bit active. Nice to be here Nadim. (NKH)