David Golden wrote:
John M. Gamble wrote:
CPAN, of course, is eternal, but putting the pdf in a module that is
only a tenth its size would be an undue burden on downloaders, not to
mention the lack of a clear policy on this.
How big is the PDF? If it could be optimized down to the 100K range
Chris Dolan wrote:
I agree with David in terms of size, but license may be a bigger
problem. Unless the author of the PDF explicitly gave you permission
to release under the same terms as Perl itself (or whatever license
you have chosen for your code) you may need to follow the advice above
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* John M. Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-12 14:55]:
I have a pdf file, written by Dr. Nickalls, on solving cubic
equations that was the basis for the creation of
Math::Polynomial::Solve.
Was this created from a TeX source, and if so, is that available?
Or if no
On May 12, 2006, at 7:52 AM, John M. Gamble wrote:
So. Is there, or could there be, a separate spot on CPAN for
supplemental documentation like PDF files and graphics files?
You can actually just upload whatever file you want to a subdirectory
of your CPAN directory. On the PAUSE upload pa
* John M. Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-12 14:55]:
> I have a pdf file, written by Dr. Nickalls, on solving cubic
> equations that was the basis for the creation of
> Math::Polynomial::Solve.
Was this created from a TeX source, and if so, is that available?
Or if not, could it be reproduced
On May 12, 2006, at 9:03 AM, David Golden wrote:
John M. Gamble wrote:
CPAN, of course, is eternal, but putting the pdf in a module that is
only a tenth its size would be an undue burden on downloaders, not to
mention the lack of a clear policy on this.
How big is the PDF? If it could be opt
John M. Gamble wrote:
CPAN, of course, is eternal, but putting the pdf in a module that is
only a tenth its size would be an undue burden on downloaders, not to
mention the lack of a clear policy on this.
How big is the PDF? If it could be optimized down to the 100K range or
less, I wouldn't
I have a pdf file, written by Dr. Nickalls, on solving cubic equations
that was the basis for the creation of Math::Polynomial::Solve. I’m
updating the module now, and I’d like to make the pdf file more readily
available (I have Dr. Nickalls’s permission to do so). It exists at
other web sites, bu
