Re: Seeking GONZUS for collaboration

2016-02-25 Thread Sawyer X
I'll be honest, I never check this list. :) But! Here's my [some form of] contribution: * We[1] worked on Path::Hilbert::XS together as part of the p5pclub efforts so the repo is under p5pclub organization: https://github.com/p5pclub/path-hilbert-xs * I can assure you we are both very responsive

Re: Please Fix Template-Plugin-Autoformat - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75335

2012-10-26 Thread sawyer x
Hi, I don't think the list needs to know you sent an email to Andy asking to fix a bug. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Andy, please fix Template-Plugin-Autoformat . I'm affected by this bug - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75335 -

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-16 Thread Sawyer X
I felt like I put this aside without wrapping up my point of view, which is unfair and impolite, so I'll try to do that (hopefully respectively) now. On 09/09/2012 02:18 AM, Pedro Melo wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:18 PM, sawyer x

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-08 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Serguei Trouchelle s...@cpan.org wrote: sawyer x wrote: I don't understand why people upload things to CPAN that are specifically exclusively without-a-doubt on-purpose *just for them*? Because it's convenient for them. Well, that's pretty obvious, even

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-08 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Sven Dowideit svendowid...@home.org.auwrote: the reason is simple - every single Perl developer seems to have a modified, but cargo culted approach to the tools they use to build, test and release. But these are just lists of authors' personal choices (that

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-08 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Pedro Melo m...@simplicidade.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:47 AM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand why people upload things to CPAN that are specifically exclusively without-a-doubt on-purpose just for them? Two reasons

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-07 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Pedro Melo m...@simplicidade.org wrote: Hi, I would like to propose the Author:: namespace as a place for all of our personal modules that don't fit into any other namespace, for public experimental modules, and for author metadata. I don't understand why

Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-09-07 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand why people upload things to CPAN that are specifically exclusively without-a-doubt on-purpose just for them? People always say

Re: Advice on module name needed

2012-09-06 Thread sawyer x
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:43:51 -0500 Jay Flaherty jayflahe...@gmail.com wrote: WWW::Rally::API I like this one. Many times the WWW::Something is either generic web stuff (WWW::Mechanize) or web frontends to stuff (like

Re: Test cases when some module functionality requires a login

2012-08-06 Thread sawyer x
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Stephen Patterson st...@patter.me.ukwrote: I'm writing a module which does some screen-scraping on a mostly open website, but some of the functionality is restricted to registered users. For completeness, I'd like to add my username password for testing but

Re: Data::Tabular::Document (Useful? + Name suggestion)

2012-08-01 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:18 PM, b...@atmaildot.com wrote: On Saturday, July 28, 2012 8:13:44 AM UTC-7, sawyer x wrote: I wanted to consult on whether something is actually useful enough to upload to CPAN. Perhaps I'm simply missing something obvious. You should also repost this on http

Re: Data::Tabular::Document (Useful? + Name suggestion)

2012-07-31 Thread sawyer x
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Sawyer, On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:13:44 +0300 sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote: Data::Tabular::Document (for the lack of a better name at the moment) allows you to create a document with rows, with each row

Data::Tabular::Document (Useful? + Name suggestion)

2012-07-28 Thread sawyer x
Hi, I wanted to consult on whether something is actually useful enough to upload to CPAN. Perhaps I'm simply missing something obvious. Data::Tabular::Document (for the lack of a better name at the moment) allows you to create a document with rows, with each row having items. They are all

Re: New module naming

2011-11-08 Thread sawyer x
Wow this has turned into a monster thread... ouch. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Sawyer, Hey. :) The problem is that using my $a and my $b will prevent the built-in $a and $b from being used and as a result is a bad idea. We should make sure

Re: New module naming

2011-11-07 Thread sawyer x
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: You shouldn't call lexical variables $a and $b: That was a completely pointless comment, Shlomi. He's trying to showcase an action on two objects that have the exact same level of importance and relevance. Calling

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

2011-08-30 Thread sawyer x
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Arthur Corliss corl...@digitalmages.comwrote: I think you're still missing my point and focusing on defending a company you obviously like. All you had to do was originally write as much as I understand people's desire for encryption, I still believe that 1.

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

2011-08-28 Thread sawyer x
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com wrote: On 28/08/2011 19:30, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Arthur Corlisscorliss@digitalmages.**com corl...@digitalmages.com [2011-08-28 19:55]: With friends like Google protecting your information, who needs encryption? ;-)

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

2011-07-29 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Gabor, On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:58:52 +0300 Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-07-29 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.comwrote: On 11-07-29 07:58 AM, sawyer x wrote: Most of what we do online is private. Not I want to hide this because it's illegal private, but this is personal, so mind your own business private. How about

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

2011-07-29 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:17 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:58 AM, sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com wrote: I like to work in HTTPS (and we should, really, in a secure world). Many websites already moved to it by default such as github.com, all google sites

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

2011-07-29 Thread sawyer x
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Aldo Calpini d...@perl.it wrote: On 29.07.2011 17:39, David Cantrell wrote: https://encrypted.google.com/ ah, ok. but that's explicitly requesting for https, which is something different from eg. github, which really redirect http requests to https. Gmail

Re: How to list optional dependencies?

2011-07-12 Thread sawyer x
Module::Build has recommends. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was looking at ExtUtils::MakeMaker and wondering how could I list a set of modules as optional dependencies? As I could not find and answer I wonder if there is a well defined tool

Re: Problems with cpan

2011-04-03 Thread sawyer x
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone tell me how to fix this? [...] Magick.xs:64: fatal error: magick/MagickCore.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. It appears you're missing the header files of ImageMagick. If you're on

Re: Problems with cpan

2011-04-03 Thread sawyer x
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.comwrote: On 11-04-03 02:15 PM, sawyer x wrote: Once you have those, the module will be able to compile against them. Now I'm getting this: LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/lib cc -L../magick/.libs -lMagickCore -shared -O2 -L/usr/local

Re: Problems with cpan

2011-04-03 Thread sawyer x
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.comwrote: On 11-04-03 03:23 PM, sawyer x wrote: -lperl means the perl development library. Check for libperl-dev on Debian/Ubuntu. Sigh. Now it can't `make test`: Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/shawn/lib

Re: Top level naming suggestion

2011-01-31 Thread Sawyer X
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David Nicol davidni...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Tiny and concise, as to be an official completely workable API implementation (currently using Mouse - or rather, Any::Moose - and HTTP::Tiny). 3. I prefer not to bury this inside a low namespace

Top level naming suggestion

2011-01-30 Thread Sawyer X
Hi all! I've been working recently on a project that involves the totally-awesome MetaCPAN (metacpan.org, search.metacpan.org). MetaCPAN itself has a defined, public API, to get information in a RESTful manner, and I've written a module that lets you interact with the API easily. It supports both

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-06 Thread sawyer x
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Dave Cardwell list+perl-module-auth...@davecardwell.co.uklist%2bperl-module-auth...@davecardwell.co.uk wrote: Please could you advise what the “preferred” build module(s) are nowadays, when releasing to CPAN? Congratulations on releasing to CPAN! :P A

Re: Reflex extensions namespace?

2010-05-24 Thread sawyer x
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Ricardo Signes perl.moda...@rjbs.manxome.org wrote: * Rocco Caputo rcap...@pobox.com [2010-05-24T03:06:10] CPAN has a de facto standard of appending X to make extensions namespaces. Does that make sense for namespaces that end in X already? If not,

Re: Yet another module naming suggestion query

2010-04-05 Thread Sawyer X
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote: Data is fairly meaningless as a name. The Data:: is intended to be used for modules that work with abstract data values: Data::Bind, Data::Bucket, Data::BitMask, Data::COW etc. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

Yet another module naming suggestion query

2010-04-04 Thread Sawyer X
To take perhaps a short break from mirror efficiency discussions, are people still up for module naming suggestions? :) I have a new module (which I'll probably release to CPAN soon enough) which basically scans a machine for information (like Puppet's Facter). The working title is

Re: Prerequistie for Marpa::HTML

2010-03-22 Thread sawyer x
Hi On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Jeffrey jeffreykeg...@jeffreykegler.comwrote: As far as I can tell the actual behavior of Module::Build would be more in accord with the following: Modules listed in this section are necessary to build and install the given module. If a listed module is

Re: ... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want to install it permanently (y/n) [yes]

2010-03-09 Thread sawyer x
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: CPAN.pm is configured to automatically follow prerequsites but it still stops and ask the question ... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want to install it permanently (y/n) [yes] Why is that

Re: Module naming suggestions : Test::DNS

2010-01-11 Thread Sawyer X
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp.perl.module-auth...@weftsoar.net wrote: Excerpts from Paul LeoNerd Evans's message of Sun Jan 10 13:37:51 -0500 2010: Your module doesn't seem to be doing this - perhaps something like Check::DNS may be a more suitable name for

Re: Module naming suggestions : Test::DNS

2010-01-10 Thread sawyer x
Hi Paul, thanks for answering so quicky! On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.ukwrote: Usually the Test:: heirarchy is for unit test modules; mostly things built on Test::Builder, et.al. True. My module uses Test::Builder as well, and provides comfortable

Re: Module naming suggestions : Test::DNS

2010-01-10 Thread sawyer x
Hi. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Dana Hudes dhu...@hudes.org wrote: If you call it Test::DNSserver ? Not ::server bec that would imply you are a server when you are a client. Calling it Test::DNSServer is like saying that Test::File should be called Test::FS, IMHO. I'm not checking

Re: Test-only code

2009-12-23 Thread sawyer x
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: What I normally do is put it under t/lib [...] Module::Starter is an example of this. I believe Module::Build is, too. This is cleaner than calling the module itself t::, as modules that start with a lowercase letter

Re: Reliability of timing in smoke tests

2009-10-19 Thread sawyer x
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: Before I think about this though; does anyone have any better suggestions? Are there other modules around with timing-sensitive tests? How do they cope with variable load on the test boxes? I like

Re: What Would you like to see in a CPAN Distro Manager?

2009-09-05 Thread sawyer x
2009/9/4 Jonathan Yu jonathan.i...@gmail.com Redoing stuff for the purposes of making things easier for a computer seems backwards to me. After all, computers are supposed to do work for /us/ -- they're faster, more consistent, etc. So leave programmers to do what programmers do, and let the

Re: Access to bug queue

2009-08-19 Thread sawyer x
Actually I've been meaning to ask something on a previous thread, but here I can just reply to stuff, so it might be easier. Access is given to the PAUSE ID of the person that owns the particular module, either on a first-come basis or based on who owns the namespace (ie via registration in the

Re: RFC: Yet Another Excel Writer..

2009-04-11 Thread sawyer x
I think ::Simple is probably the most standard way of doing that. I'm not aware of any ::Easy modules. Perhaps ::Simple is a much better offer. :)

Re: RFC: Yet Another Excel Writer..

2009-04-01 Thread sawyer x
Sounds like a good module to me. I know I could have used it a few weeks ago. If so, is this set of modules aptly named? - Does it use a standard CPAN module for email sending? - What does it use for formating to web? If it's a subset of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, maybe it would be better off to

Re: Name for barcode-reading module?

2009-02-21 Thread sawyer x
I think Barcode::OCR depicts by the name exactly what it does. It does OCR of barcodes. Perfect. The rest I would have to open to read what they do exactly. Barcode::OCR is sself explanatory, IMHO. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Keith Ivey writes: Okay,

Re: Arrays in Config::General without resorting to copy/paste OR yaml

2008-10-30 Thread sawyer x
, sawyer x wrote: I'm using Moose with MooseX::SimpleConfig I guess it'd be nicer if the configuration module (Config::Any) or even MooseX::SimpleConfig role would do this instead of having to do sub BUILD { my $self = shift; $self-method( [ split /,/, $self-method

Arrays in Config::General without resorting to copy/paste OR yaml

2008-10-29 Thread Sawyer X
I'm trying to set a configuration file with Config::General and apparently to set an Array, I need to the following example: example lamp = linux lamp = apache lamp = mysql lamp = perl /example When using keys that are long, it's simply a copy paste issue. Isn't the a more

Re: Arrays in Config::General without resorting to copy/paste OR yaml

2008-10-29 Thread sawyer x
, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Wed, Oct 29 2008, Sawyer X wrote: I'm trying to set a configuration file with Config::General and apparently to set an Array, I need to the following example: example lamp = linux lamp = apache lamp = mysql lamp = perl

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread sawyer x
I guess that answers most of it. - Of course, we need to make sure that new comers don't just take old modules (which work very good) and break them You can never assure that, and who would decide and monitor that anyway? Even if the module transfers to a new author, the older versions

IO::Prompt suggestion

2008-09-10 Thread sawyer x
I'm not sure if this is the place, so correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just guessing this mailing list is more frequently read by those I think are involved, so apologizes if this isn't the place.. I tried using Data::Validate::Domain (specifically exporting the function is_domain) and obviously (to

Re: IO::Prompt suggestion

2008-09-10 Thread sawyer x
Thank you David for the reply and comment. I'll just explicitly comment what I did. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David Precious [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: sawyer x wrote: As you can see, I've added two lines to check what's wrong with the value. I tried different things, till I decided

Re: Begging for money - too tacky?

2008-07-15 Thread Sawyer X
Seems like a reasonable idea. I might just suggest a small change in the phrasing. Something along the lines of I do this out of interest and spare time. However, my time is limited since I have a job (/jobs?) and thus, donating will help me spare more time to work on this. If you use this and

Re: Proposal: Test::Refcount

2008-07-15 Thread Sawyer X
Both! :) On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The B modules are incredibly powerful, poorly documented pieces of crap. They may be great, but without documentation on how to use

Re: Begging for money - too tacky?

2008-07-15 Thread Sawyer X
, 15 Jul 2008, Sawyer X wrote: Seems like a reasonable idea. I might just suggest a small change in the phrasing. Something along the lines of I do this out of interest and spare time. However, my time is limited since I have a job (/jobs?) and thus, donating will help me spare more time

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-06-29 Thread sawyer x
exceptions easier. On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Lutz Gehlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi sawyer x, thanks for your suggestion. On Sun, Jun 29, 2008, sawyer x wrote: How about Exception::Easy ? The idea to put it out of the Exception::Class name space is definitely worth considering

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread sawyer x
Thanks for the quick reply and attention. I would like to extend Eric's problem to me as well. I only uploaded a distribution so far Are you talking about genpass? Yes. and since it's self contained, the testing is (at least now) very limited and

Re: Find A Tester

2008-05-27 Thread sawyer x
Thank you Barbie. It seems like a very useful tool indeed! On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this has started cropping up a little more, now that the cpan-testers no longer sends the reports out, and prompted by Eric's post yesterday, I've added a little form

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-26 Thread sawyer x
I would like to extend Eric's problem to me as well. I only uploaded a distribution so far and since it's self contained, the testing is (at least now) very limited and provide approval functionality. Yet I've received erroneous (which I was more than surprised to get) and I tried contacting the