Re: RFC: the Author:: namespace

2012-11-23 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-01-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
modules within a distribution is a non- obvious precondition for dependency resolution to work 100% reliably in all edge cases. I have notes for an article about it flying around here somewhere that I should really get around to writing and publishing. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Make sure all the modules have the same version number in a distribution

2013-02-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
/::([^:]*)$/print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]/e;chop;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net [2013-05-11 06:30]: I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_adopt_module

Re: Naming/API for async-capable webservices modules

2013-05-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
emphasise futures rather than IO::Async, natch. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Naming/API for async-capable webservices modules

2013-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk [2013-05-27 01:35]: On Sat, 25 May 2013 08:52:30 +0200 Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: That’s just what futures are for, I think? As in, they abstract the sync/async control flow out of the code. And you’re just putting that on top

Re: potentially GD::Image::Filter::Simple ??

2013-07-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
themselves.) I don’t follow. Do you mean they should get a GD::Image that has methods for both algorithms, or something along these lines? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Proposal For A Module To Generate Regular Expressions

2013-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
this Regexp::Builder. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Alien::XXX needs something more

2013-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
one. (Alien::NotVMS::FooBar?) -- *AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/..([^:]*)$/()[print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]]/e;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Please takeover HTML::Element::Library

2013-08-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/blob/master/lancaster-consensus.md#flagging-abandoned-modules-and-modules-requesting-help [1]: https://metacpan.org/author/ADOPTME -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Please takeover HTML::Element::Library

2013-08-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2013-08-22 04:23]: [1]: https://metacpan.org/author/ADOPTME Hmm, http://search.cpan.org/~adoptme/ seems better for this case… -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Jperl is bad name -;

2013-10-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Jperl is bad name -;

2013-10-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jean-Damien Durand jeandamiendur...@free.fr [2013-10-30 01:00]: I liked - JavaScript::Transpile for its explicit namespace and play on words translate/compile (that's my interpretation, Aristotle) Not my coinage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpiler -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Unclear as to problem: Tried to register 'Types', but says can't due to unrelated module.

2013-11-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
be thought of yourself by someone else? -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Unclear as to problem: Tried to register 'Types', but says can't due to unrelated module.

2013-11-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Problem naming a module

2013-11-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* it to the whole kit and caboodle, the name becomes ludicrous. So I left it out. So that’s the best I could do. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Then a few `git rm -f META.yml git rebase --continue` later you’d’ve gotten what I think is just what’s in your pull request. -- git commit -m 'Just another Git hacker,' #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2013-12-12 20:40]: On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:38:46AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org [2013-12-04 15:30]: Well, git rebase did not work properly (too many silly merge commits for stuff that predates my

Re: COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random

2013-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
thing that can happen is that the user lacks the experience to understand the state they put Git into, and how to change it (back, or in any other direction) – but not actual data loss. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Best way to communicate changing the output of a module

2013-12-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Yanick Champoux yan...@babyl.dyndns.org [2013-12-22 20:35]: Perhaps a saner middle-ground could be of introducing a new environment variable CPAN_NO_MAJOR_JUMP. Or just warn instead of dying. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Aliens depending on Aliens

2014-01-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to tweak the environment to taste. Not sure which one would be the less leaky abstraction.) -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Aliens depending on Aliens

2014-01-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to be brittle: if you are shipping a tarball of the alien or downloading a particular of it version during *.PL, you know exactly what’s in the tarball, so you know exactly what your patch code will do. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: naming a new module

2014-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
squatted on the preferable term, so it’s still yours for the grabbing. So, congratulations on your shiny new Net::Domain::PublicSuffix module. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Module name advice

2014-09-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ben Deutsch b...@bendeutsch.de [2014-09-18 20:20]: Text::Template::LocalVars FWIW, that was going to be my suggestion too. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Paging Andreas König… [was: throw away module namespace]

2014-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
release until you have settled the namespace question. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: name for a module that parces and compiles micro assembly language (MAL) into Mic-1 microinstructions.

2015-01-15 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
in cursory search. Seems a decent enough name. So, CPU::Mic1::Assembler? With “MAL” mentioned in the abstract so a CPAN search will find it? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
value is supposed to be just a string, you should surround it with \Q and \E. FTFY. It’s not just paths. (You don’t need to quotemeta *every* time of course – but you *should* reflexively stop and consider *whether* you need it, every time.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Seeking a suitable forum to discuss Scalar/List::Util

2015-05-14 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
sign up for that too. So whatever is all fine with me, I don’t care. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-04 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: good form for discontinuing a module

2015-06-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it become unlikely to be found by undirected search.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
; So, please, do not remove META. Nobody is talking about dropping META entirely. The question is whether a META.yml is necessary in addition to META.json. Does dh-make-perl need META.yml specifically or can it just as well use META.json? (I would hope it can…) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, but figuring out when you need it and when not is a hassle, > and actually declaring a minimum EUMM version (even if it's an ancient > one) is generally considered good practice. Also I think some > packagers may be using it. So what does that mean for John’s original question? -- A

Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

2015-10-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
out of the box. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Trying to come up with a name for a DTrace Consumer XS module

2015-07-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
modules, and that did turn up another alternative: those are split between Devel:: (again) and Sys::. Oh right, d’oh. That seems like a pretty good choice. How does Sys::DTrace::Consumer sound? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Naming help needed for evil @INC hackery

2015-10-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. You’re monkeypatching lib.pm. How about lib::RespectHooks? That would be particularly descriptive if you avoid the need for any interface by simplifying the code to something like my $newimport = sub { my @hook; push @hook, shift @INC while ref $INC[0]; &$originallibimp

Re: Perl Modules in GitHub

2016-03-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
se. But note that you cannot turn off pull requests at the time of this writing. So in practice modules maintained under a personal account are not that problematic. The only serious problem is in case the maintainer got run over by a bus and nobody else can log into their GitHub account. Regards, --

Re: A question of permissions

2016-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
fuss of it myself on behalf of Neil without asking him, and to leave it to Neil whether he wanted the point addressed. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Dilemma for XML::MyXML

2016-07-04 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
ole document they always get bytes. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name

2016-09-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
s? Sounds like Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey would be separate but the others would ship together. If so, then one should probably be a sub-namespace of the other. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: Sanity checking for namespace and other abuses

2016-10-27 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
want to use these packages. (Which doesn’t have to be a CPAN module, it can also be some would-be user’s already-existing code base.) It will be uglier to namespace your stuff more; bite that bullet. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: A funny module that shortens one-liners - is it worth global namespace?

2017-01-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
that line was supposed to be doing. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Re: A funny module that shortens one-liners - is it worth global namespace?

2017-01-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> [2017-01-09 01:42]: > * Konstantin S. Uvarin <khe...@gmail.com> [2016-12-27 11:24]: > > perl -Mnew=x=My::Very::Long::Module,foo,42 -we "print $x->foo;" > > perl -Maliased=My::Very::Long::Module,X -we 'print X->

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