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: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: New module Mail::SendEasy But my point is not to rag on about Mail::Box, or any other mail handling module. It's to write smaller, cleaner, single purpose ones. Hey, Email::MIME came out the other day. Comments welcome. Ill have a look at some point. It will be interesting

Re: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Overmeer
Sorry, I'm not on the list, but got this passed on... Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:49:29 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Orton) writes: Besides this is there really any reason for yet another

Re: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Terrence Brannon wrote: - it seems that instead of volunteers to ease the burden of your API usage/docs, people are trying to pull the rug out from under you by populating the Email::* hierarchy... oh well. I hope you're not including me here. My comments were intended

Re: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Terrence Brannon
Mark Overmeer wrote: Mail::Box was designed to start with EVERYTHING which the RFCs specify, and ALL uses I know with e-mail. A very high level library. And that's quite a lot... And therefore suffers all the same problems as other large modules (like Tk) have: they are hard to understand when

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: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 02:12 -0600 1/28/04, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Terrence Brannon wrote: I also tend to agree with him that Mail::Box is a bit over-engineered in the OO department. Do you _really_ need _eleven_ classes for Mail::Message::Field, which in turn are presumably used by the _nine_

Re: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 02:12 -0600 1/28/04, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Terrence Brannon wrote: I also tend to agree with him that Mail::Box is a bit over-engineered in the OO department. Do you _really_ need _eleven_ classes for

Re: Fwd: Re: New module Mail::SendEasy

2004-01-28 Thread Terrence Brannon
Mark Overmeer wrote: OTOH, it _does_ do basically everything you'd ever want for mail handling/sending, and if you want to do something complex, it'll do that that. That is one of the differences in concept. I prefer libraries to provide a high