[PROPOSAL] - List::Compare

2002-06-10 Thread James E Keenan
List::Compare adpO Simple object-oriented implementation of standard Perl code for comparison of the elements of two lists JKEENAN Tarball of alpha available at: http://www.concentric.net/~Jkeen/list/List-Compare-0.05.tar.gz Comments welcome, particularly if this code already exists in a

Re: [PROPOSAL] - List::Compare

2002-06-29 Thread James E Keenan
- Original Message - From: Janek Schleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] - List::Compare I looked to the 0.11 version. I think it would be useful to have some simple comparison methods like

Re: Choosing a module name

2002-08-08 Thread James E Keenan
- Original Message - From: Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:43 AM Subject: Re: Choosing a module name Andy Lester wrote: I'm thinking about Unix::UserGroups for a module that

What Constitutes a Good Test?

2003-03-29 Thread James E Keenan
I am preparing a module for distribution, including distribution on CPAN. Having done this once before, I know _how_ to write a test suite using standard Perl test modules. However, I'm still unclear as to what constitutes a _good_ test. Suppose that I have a package that looks like this: my

What search.cpan.org PAUSE produce (Fork from: what to do with dead camels?)

2003-08-04 Thread James E Keenan
May I begin a separate thread for a line of discussion coming up under the dead camels? The discussion suggests we should also look at (1) what search.cpan.org comes up with in searching for modules; and (2) what links PAUSE builds when it extracts POD from an uploaded module. I'm going to

Re: creating a standard Perl module

2003-10-01 Thread James E Keenan
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:48:20 -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:  How do I create a standard Perl module intended for distribution? I'm going to assume that by intended for distribution you mean distribution among colleagues rather than distribution via CPAN. If you intend the latter, then you

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:59:14 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote:  I'm working on a module which will eventually be CAD::Drawing  Currently, it is named place where I store modules::Drawing and  the package is declared as simply Drawing.  I've run into a wall with my original data structure and have seen  a

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:09:10 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote: [snip]  Sorry to get into so much detail, but the gist of it is that it is  a complex problem set which is simplified by providing a single  program interface for the manipulation of any entity.   Agreed. Get the interface to be the way you

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:09:10 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote:  P.S.  I'm not sure if the CC method of replying is automatic or  not, but I'm subscribed to the list, so I'm getting two copies of  everything. I wonder what is proper Usenet etiquette. In the business world, you direct the reply To: the

Re: New modules

2003-11-12 Thread James E Keenan
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:22:01 +, Oliver White wrote: Hiya. I'm about to start work on some GIS programming in Perl, and will likely end up with a few modules that might usefully go onto CPAN. From what I've read on the FAQs though, it seems like a bit of a minefield to choose a name

Re: module discussion: Class::SubclassDeep

2003-12-06 Thread James E Keenan
Michel Rodriguez wrote: The early version of the module is at http://www.xmltwig/module/class-subclassdeep/ Michel: I think you dropped the .com in the link. Should have been: http://www.xmltwig.com/module/class-subclassdeep/ jimk

Re: RFC: Date::Iterator

2003-12-19 Thread James E Keenan
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:13:56 +0100, Marco Marongiu wrote: Ciao a tutti I created the module in subject for an application I had to create for my job. I am planning to release it on CPAN [snip] SEE ALSO The wonderful Date::Calc module Your README makes clear that Date::Iterator depends on

Licenses for Perl Distributions As Displayed on search.cpan.org

2003-12-23 Thread James E Keenan
I recently used the Feedback section on search.cpan.org to ask the following question: I've noticed that the CPAN interface for modules now includes a space for the module's License -- but that few modules have any entry here (e.g., http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/List-Compare- 0.22/

Re: Version Numbers

2004-01-09 Thread James E Keenan
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:46:04 -0800, David Wheeler wrote: What's the consensus on the version numbers to give to different modules in a CPAN distribution? [snip] Still others have made all of the modules in a single distribution have the same version number. This is the practice I have followed

RFC: Mail::Digest::Tools

2004-03-04 Thread James E Keenan
Friends: Within the next day or so I plan to upload the first CPAN version of a new module called Mail::Digest::Tools. This module provides users tools in the form of Perl functions which facilitate management of local archives of e-mail messages received in daily digest format. Several weeks

Re: When Did a Module Become Core?

2005-01-17 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:32:06PM -0500, James Keenan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is the simplest way to determine for a given CPAN module (a) whether it is part of the Perl core; (b) when it became part of the core (i.e., which version of Perl); and (c) which version is

Re: what namespace for future new module ?

2005-03-08 Thread James E Keenan
Cdric Bouvier wrote: I have something almost working right now. I'd like to upload it to CPAN (after I have at least improved the documentation kindly written by Module::Starter, that is) but I'd like your enlightened opinion on what name it should bear. I first thought of Test::Distributed, but

RFC: Simple Tied Filehandle code

2005-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
I am requesting comments on namespace for the following package which I would like to upload to CPAN. package Yet::To::Be::Named; use strict; use Carp; sub TIEHANDLE { my $class = shift; my @lines = @_; bless [EMAIL PROTECTED], $class; } sub

Re: RFC: Simple Tied Filehandle code

2005-04-17 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: I am requesting comments on namespace for the following package which I would like to upload to CPAN. package Yet::To::Be::Named; use strict; use Carp; sub TIEHANDLE { my $class = shift; my @lines = @_; bless [EMAIL PROTECTED], $class

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-25 Thread James E Keenan
John Siracusa wrote: I tried posting to comp.lang.perl.announce once, but didn't get any response. Not only did you *try* posting, you did post! http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=Siracusasafe=imagesas_ugroup=comp.lang.perl.announce Maybe not many people read that group these days?

Re: RFC: Getopt::Modern

2005-06-16 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: Code: http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/Getopt-Modern/trunk/ English: http://scratchcomputing.com/developers/Getopt-Modern/ I tried following the online slide show but it failed here: http://scratchcomputing.com/developers/Getopt-Modern/slides/text2.html with a 404 Not

Re: Request for Comments - Tree::Node module?

2005-06-29 Thread James E Keenan
Imacat wrote: My module is not a XS module. It works fine, passed various tests under MSWin32. But somehow ActiveState cannot build it. So it hangs there. No PPM package is available for my module till now. Luckily people can build it themselves since it is not an XS module. Is this

Re: Switching Maintenance of a CPAN Distribution

2005-07-03 Thread James E Keenan
Nicholas Clark wrote: The existing maintainer needs to log into PAUSE, then select Change Permissions from the menu on the left. He/she is then presented with a series of select buttons, and wants 2.1 Pass primary maintainership status to somebody else Which gets to a form to select which

Re: Switching Maintenance of a CPAN Distribution

2005-07-10 Thread James E Keenan
_brian_d_foy wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: The existing maintainer needs to log into PAUSE, then select Change Permissions from the menu on the left. If you run into any problems, just ask over at the modules@perl.org list. I or someone else can help you. Thanks. The module author took

Re: Help with naming: ASDoc to POD conversion

2005-08-10 Thread James E Keenan
Chris Dolan wrote: I am working on a module that converts Flash Actionscript documentation (an informal variant of Javadoc) to POD. What would be a good name for this? I like to Pod:: namespace, but that's mostly for modules that convert from POD, not to POD. One exception is

Re: Hash::HasKeys

2005-08-13 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: I rewrite this code *all* the time (and always forget about die if extra_keys()). Repeated code is a mistake: I learned that lesson (from mjd, natch) very well. And as a result, got over any shame about putting simple code into subroutines; then into modules, when I used

Re: RFC - Test::Stupid module

2005-08-22 Thread James E Keenan
David Landgren wrote: Or have Module::Starter know how to include site-local boilerplate. I like addnig a fixed blurb on how to report bugs (and no doubt other stuff but that's what I can think of without looking). If M::S knew how to fetch that during a run it would save me from having to

Updates of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker, ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::PBP Now Available

2005-10-02 Thread James E Keenan
Version 0.43 of Perl extension ExtUtils::ModuleMaker is now available on CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker/) as is version 0.08 of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker::PBP (http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker-PBP/). ExtUtils::ModuleMaker was created by Geoff Avery and is a

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-05 Thread James E Keenan
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:48:10 +1200, Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This was probably for the sake of the text-only modules list, which has since fallen out of maintenance. But it's still relevant for the database table that is behind

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-05 Thread James E Keenan
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-05 13:35]: Since the 44-character limit never applied to modules except those intended for CPAN, and since it does not now appear to apply to modules as they appear on search.cpan.org, I'm inclined toward the latter approach

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-08 Thread James E Keenan
Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:41:27 +1300, Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 07:51 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: So, the question I would now ask: How rigidly should I enforce the 44-character limit if I am guiding someone in the task of

Re: Module abstract: Is its length still limited?

2005-11-10 Thread James E Keenan
Sam Vilain wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:08 -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Andreas J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-07T17:29:50] I will be very happy if you guys decide something and let me know. I'll adjust the code for the forms on PAUSE then. Here's my official vote: (length

Re: PPM Fails Question - What did I do wrong?

2005-11-16 Thread James E Keenan
On further analysis, I don't think your problems are due to some problem at ActiveState. Games-Poker-HistoryParser-1.3 failed tests and threw many warnings when I tested it on Darwin. See attachment. jimk Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e

When CPAN shell cannot find a module

2005-11-20 Thread James E Keenan
I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct. When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not include a package with the name of the distribution, the shell immediately tells me to use the 'i /distroname/' to find objects with matching

Re: When CPAN shell cannot find a module

2005-11-21 Thread James E Keenan
Randy Kobes wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, James E Keenan wrote: [snip] Note that, if you know the distribtion you want to install, CPAN.pm understands cpan install KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz That's the step I was looking for: what to do once the 'i /somemodule/' command returns

Why is module list not more up-to-date?

2005-11-28 Thread James E Keenan
Tonight I had occasion to check www.cpan.org's various pages. Specifically: http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html I notice that the timestamp on this page says: Fri Nov 18 22:56:49 2005 GMT ... 10 days ago. And this appears to be the date that my CPAN.pm is using as a

Re: Why is module list not more up-to-date?

2005-11-29 Thread James E Keenan
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: There's some sort of drive failure in the CPAN's master mirror. Unfortunately, it has not been written about here, yet: http://log.perl.org/ Thanks, Ricardo. I was not previously aware of log.perl.org. jimk

Re: OO list module

2006-02-26 Thread James E Keenan
Eric: This looks promising. I suspect you're mainly looking for feedback on the interface, which I haven't really looked at yet. But in testing it 3 of the 4 test files were skipped. Perhaps that's okay for a distribution in the experimental stage, but I know that it would give me pause

Re: OO list module

2006-02-26 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from James E Keenan # on Sunday 26 February 2006 06:19 am: I suspect you're mainly looking for feedback on the interface, which I haven't really looked at yet. Yes, please. The goal is primarily the interface. Fair enough. I don't really understand reform

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Terrence Brannon wrote: On 4/9/06, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set::Gapfillers - Fill in the gaps between integer ranges What practical situation led to you needing this module? I'm curious. Another Perl Seminar NY member and I have been working on a web application

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Flavio S. Glock wrote: I'm not sure if it fills all requirements, but see also: Set::Infinite http://search.cpan.org/~fglock/Set-Infinite-0.61/lib/Set/Infinite.pm - Flavio S. Glock Yes, I have looked into it, have already given it one mention in the SEE ALSO, and will look into it some more

Re: RFC: Set-Gapfillers

2006-04-10 Thread James E Keenan
Flavio S. Glock wrote: I'm not sure if it fills all requirements, but see also: Set::Infinite http://search.cpan.org/~fglock/Set-Infinite-0.61/lib/Set/Infinite.pm - Flavio S. Glock I've been giving further study to Set::Infinite. I concede that I may not understand the documentation

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-06 Thread James E Keenan
Robert Rothenberg (CPAN) wrote: This is really frustrating. I'm not sure how to solve this, aside from giving up on signing my CPAN uploads altogether. That signature failures on automated CPAN Tester Reports show up as test failures only reinforces this view. I'm curious as to other authors'

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-06 Thread James E Keenan
Robert Rothenberg (CPAN) wrote: This is really frustrating. I'm not sure how to solve this, aside from giving up on signing my CPAN uploads altogether. That signature failures on automated CPAN Tester Reports show up as test failures only reinforces this view. I'm curious as to other authors'

Re: Module::Signature issues

2006-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
Ken Williams wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote: I'm reminder of one other issue: there are Windows vs Unix end-of-line issues that it sometimes chokes on. I've just re-released Pod::Readme without a signature, because the signature problems are choking up

Re: Devel::Timer, Jason Moore

2006-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Jay Hannah wrote: Jay Hannah wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~jmoore/ Anyone have a way to contact Jason? Bummer. The whois admin of sober.com doesn't know how to reach Jason either... Anyone else have any other ideas? If not, thoughts on my adoption of Devel::Timer? As part of

Re: Devel::Timer, Jason Moore

2006-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Jay Hannah wrote: Jay Hannah wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~jmoore/ Anyone have a way to contact Jason? Bummer. The whois admin of sober.com doesn't know how to reach Jason either... Anyone else have any other ideas? If not, thoughts on my adoption of Devel::Timer? As part of

Module maintainers: What have you experienced?

2006-05-28 Thread James E Keenan
Last week I mentioned (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/4576) that I will be leading a discussion at YAPC in Chicago on the process of taking over maintenance of CPAN modules. This will be based partly on my own experiences in taking over maintenance of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker

Re: What to do about abandoned / unmaintained CPAN code?

2006-06-11 Thread James E Keenan
Linda W wrote: I was going through the Win:: modules and wanted to try a few, but got stuck when a basic one failed to work: Win32::API (http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Win32-API). [snip] So what is the procedure for dealing with abandoned modules? Are they put up for adoption or what? -linda

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-04 Thread James E Keenan
Dmitri Tikhonov wrote: Dear fellow Perl module authors: I have a test suite for my distribution (RT-Client-REST) that requires some modules that the module itself does not require (Test::Exception, for example). Since it is not listed as a dependency, some people's tests fail[1,2].

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: Hi all, No names, but if you happen to be sitting on a module which other people depend on and you're not going to fix bugs, give up the module, offer someone co-maintainership or figure out *something* which gives users a way out. I realize that not everyone has a pile of

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-24 Thread James E Keenan
David Golden wrote: I want to endorse imacat on her contributions. She runs one of the best smoke testers on cpan-testers: it's really strict and seems to catch lots of people out on subtle dependency problems. She's also been very responsive to questions I've had about failed test

Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules

2006-11-27 Thread James E Keenan
Perl Seminar New York, sponsor of monthly technical meetings in New York City since 2000 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/), announces the initiation of Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules. The original Phalanx project, initiated by Andy Lester

Re: Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules

2006-11-28 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: We would like to begin our F2F sessions in January 2006. No, we're actually aiming for January 2007! jimk

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-15 Thread James E Keenan
David Landgren wrote: James E Keenan did write: I am preparing a module for CPAN tentatively titled List::RewriteElements. Given a list of data records, typically in the form of a flat file, optionally containing a header row, I am frequently asked to generate a new file in which each

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: David Landgren wrote: Question: (?:how)? does your module deal with positional records (that is, fixed width fields)? It doesn't (at least not yet). I think I'm wrong. Thinking a bit more about the code, I suspect there's no inherent reason it can't handle

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
David Landgren wrote: Question: (?:how)? does your module deal with positional records (that is, fixed width fields)? as opposed to delimited records? Contradicting my earlier doubts about this, List::RewriteElements does can be used to rewrite elements of fixed-width records. I've

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 15 Dec 2006, at 21:39, David Landgren wrote: I vote for Transform. Possibly more Data than List but I wouldn't argue it for long. List:: has the connotation doing things to Perl arrays I think. In Perl an array is a data structure which can hold a list, where a

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-16 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: I've just uploaded v0.06 to CPAN. CPAN appears to be having some problem accepting uploads right now. You can find v0.06 at http://thenceforward.net/perl/modules/List-RewriteElements/List-RewriteElements-0.06.tar.gz jimk

Re: List::RewriteElements

2006-12-17 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: CPAN appears to be having some problem accepting uploads right now. You can find v0.06 at http://thenceforward.net/perl/modules/List-RewriteElements/List-RewriteElements-0.06.tar.gz The CPAN hiccups cleared up after a couple of hours, so you can now get List

Re: no contact with author

2007-01-02 Thread James E Keenan
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Darek Dwornikowski # on Tuesday 02 January 2007 09:49 am: i wrote to him twice, trying different emails. his personal webpage is dead too.. I do not want to take over, I thought I could contact him trough this list. File a bug in rt? This is a good suggestion

Re: James Freeman's other modules (was: Re: CGI::Simple)

2007-01-13 Thread James E Keenan
Fergal Daly wrote: Changing the subject from Keenan to Freeman (James Keenan is not MIA), Yes, the reports of my demise are quite premature. Ironically, today we had the first meeting of Perl Seminar NY's Phalanx Phoenix project (http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=586406), whose

Re: META.yml not being refreshed

2007-05-07 Thread James E Keenan
Ken Williams wrote: And will that solve the problem? What caused the problem in the first place? No idea, but if it's EU::MM that's supposed to be writing it and it's not writing it, it must be an EU::MM bug. Or maybe a configuration problem. This is what I did tonight: 1.

Re: CPAN::Porters

2007-05-16 Thread James E Keenan
Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, What do you think? Gabor I think that is a good idea whose success, in practical terms, will depend on whether you can recruit people to the project who are expert in preparing binary packages for a specific OS. To guide/coach people to prepare RPMs, for

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ shows 1.29_01 that I uploaded earlier in the week, but 1.26 has disappeared. Different mirrors have different sets of modules. For example: * http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ shows 1.24

Re: Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: At first I thought I might have deleted two revisions of WWW::Mechanize by mistake, but it's not just Mech: SOAP::Lite is missing revisions. http://search.cpan.org/dist/SOAP-Lite/ only shows SOAP::Lite up to 0.60a, but I know for a fact that there's been a 0.67.

Re: peer review for first CPAN module? (JavaScript minification)

2007-05-24 Thread James E Keenan
Peter Michaux wrote: Hi, I'm writing a new version of JavaScript::Minification on CPAN. This is my first CPAN module and first Perl project! If someone is willing to take a look to see if I've done something terribly wrong packaging the code I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Currently

Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-05 Thread James E Keenan
I am preparing to take over maintenance of another CPAN contributor's distribution. For argument's sake, let me generalize my problem. Suppose that the Makefile.PL includes the following key-value pair in WriteMakefile(): PREREQ_PM = { 'Alpha::Beta' = 0, 'Gamma::Delta' =

Re: Should I include second-order dependencies in Makefile.PL?

2007-06-05 Thread James E Keenan
Chris Dolan wrote: On Jun 5, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Andy Lester wrote: Yes. Second-order dependencies are beyond your control. You will have false dependencies when an underlying module changes. Say that Mech has dependency on HTML::Wango, which in turn has a dependency on Test::Tango. So

Re: Fwd: Data-Structure-Util fails tests on 5.10.0

2008-03-06 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Armstrong wrote: As Nick explains Fotango no longer exist. Sad ... but it makes all those orange Fotango pens I collected at past YAPCs very valuable!

Re: Name space for provisional astronomical objects

2008-04-07 Thread James E Keenan
Alan Barclay wrote: I've got a new module I'd like to publish. [snip] I'd suggest Astro::ID::Provisional as a namespace. Astro already exists, but ID doesn't. There are however other identifiers used in astronomy, so adding in Provisional makes sense. Go for it.

Re: Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

2009-07-14 Thread James E Keenan
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2009-06-18 04:25]: I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more. Actually,

Re: Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

2009-07-14 Thread James E Keenan
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2009-06-18 04:25]: I even delayed writing this note, thinking I’d get around to making my changes available, but they’re insubstantial and unfinished and it really doesn’t matter any more. I see from another thread that this

Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-20 Thread James E Keenan
I experienced a problem yesterday which recalls the 'cpan' usage problem described in this group on Sept 11 by Shawn H Corey (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2009/09/msg7854.html). Yesterday I was using the 'cpan' shell for the first time in a couple of months on my

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-20 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: [snip] However, when I was using the 'cpan' shell yesterday, I found that it was no longer honoring configuration settings in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Instead, it was reverting to settings found in the vendor perl location established when I got this iBook way back

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-21 Thread James E Keenan
David Golden wrote: So on OSX, if your .cpan directory is under ~/Library/Application\ Support/.cpan then you should probably customize CPAN's 'build_dir' option to a path without spaces: Which is what I did. My build/ and sources/ directory remain under ~/.cpan/; only CPAN/MyConfig.pm is

Re: Location of MyConfig.pm governing cpan configurations changed involuntarily

2009-09-25 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: Does that not assume that you're using Apple's build of perl? Apparently it's independent of which build of Perl you're using. I build Perl from source, so 'which perl' is '/usr/local/bin/perl'. Nevertheless, my personal CPAN configuration in

Re: problem building my Server-Control from CPAN - 98 Use of uninitialized value warnings

2009-10-01 Thread James E Keenan
Jonathan Swartz wrote: I'm having a strange first-time problem building my new Server-Control distribution from CPAN on Fedora. To reproduce this, I first run this reset script to remove Server-Control from my .cpan and system: [snip] cpan[1] install Server::Control CPAN: Storable

Registering a file as failed if it prompts for user input

2010-03-01 Thread James E Keenan
As part of our project to refactor ExtUtils::ParseXS, I am in the process of building functionality to identify CPAN distributions that contain .xs files and to run 'perl Makefile.PL make' (or their Module::Build equivalents) on those distributions. At this point in development, I only want

Re: Registering a file as failed if it prompts for user input

2010-03-02 Thread James E Keenan
Ben Morrow wrote: PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL/dev/null Thanks for the suggestion, Ben. It seems to work some of the time, but not all the time. For example, the first time my program called 'perl Makefile.PL' for distribution 'F/FL/FLORA/Net-SSLeay', I got this: $ perl

Re: CPAN Testers, and {build,test}_requires.

2010-05-12 Thread James E Keenan
Daniel Pittman wrote: G'day. Oh, and finally, if anyone has any comments on the module — for all that it is really about as trivial as a module can be and all — I would welcome them publicly or privately. Attempted to test version 1.1. I note in your Makefile.PL, you have:

pause.perl.org: cert expired

2010-05-15 Thread James E Keenan
pause.perl.org Issued by: CAcert Class 3 Root Expires: May 10, 2012 6:18:36 PM EDT Who should be notified? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

Re: Which Build Module?

2010-07-13 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: If EU::MM does the job easily, then use it. Agreed. In research I did on CPAN modules that contain XS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker was still used 10 times as often as Module::Build. Granted, that largely reflects historical legacies. But it also indicates that EU::MM is

Re: namespace check request

2010-11-26 Thread James E Keenan
Tim Esselens wrote: Hi, I have written a small perl module, and would like to include it on CPAN. https://github.com/blaze-x/net-ldap-filter-sql Am I using the correct namespace? -- kind regards, Tim Esselens You're inheriting from Net::LDAP::Filter, so this looks okay to me. jimk

Re: Finance::OFX is missing

2011-12-31 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/30/11 2:00 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Well, it's sort of missing. It's still listed on search.cpan.org (http://search.cpan.org/~bfoz/Finance-OFX-2/lib/Finance/OFX.pm) but I got a report from a user that CPAN says that it's unavailable. I tried it myself and got: The module

Re: Finance::OFX is missing

2012-01-15 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/31/11 10:39 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: On Dec 30, 2011, at 19:39 , James E Keenan wrote: On 12/30/11 2:00 PM, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Well, it's sort of missing. It's still listed on search.cpan.org (http://search.cpan.org/~bfoz/Finance-OFX-2/lib/Finance/OFX.pm) but I got a report from

Re: Please help me name my text template module... or else!

2012-10-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/8/12 5:03 PM, Brian Katzung wrote: ... or else we'll all have to live with my name for it. :-) I tried posting on comp.lang.perl.modules (I forgot which how-to doc suggested it) when naming Data::XHash and got zero feedback. Since the Pause naming article suggests modu...@perl.org and

Re: Mail::DMARC

2012-10-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 10/5/12 4:52 AM, Davide Migliavacca wrote: Hi, I am currently working at an implementation of DMARC support in a Perl module. My guess for the name would be Mail::DMARC (as Mail::DKIM provides support for DKIM). Module will provide an XS wrapper for libopendmarc from opendmarc.org, (my

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/11/13 12:26 AM, Matt Simerson wrote: 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? perldoc -q module or perldoc perlfaq7

Re: Problem naming a module

2013-11-25 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/25/13 8:04 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:27:58PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: [snip] The other option is to give up on being descriptive, and come up with a brand name. In which case, Fleur is just as fine as anything else. :-) No, it's not.

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-03 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/27/13 7:31 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: Hi. I wrote a module to help writing tests for modules that perform operations in SQL databases. I was considering the name Test::SQL::Data In short, it helps running SQL tests: database preparing and result matching. When the module loads it

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-06 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/4/13 3:12 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:09:16PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: 1. Is this module built on the Test::Builder framework in the way that Test::Simple, Test::More, Test::Most, etc., are? It is not built on Test::Builder. It requires Test::More

Re: Module to test SQL data

2013-12-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 12/9/13 5:03 AM, Francesc Guasch wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 07:01:32PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: It's not a big deal, I add a Makefile.PL. I must admit I struggled with Dist::Zilla myself when I had to install my own module in other servers. Today I found a few minutes

Re: Top level name proposal - ComputeCluster

2014-09-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/04/2014 10:23 AM, John Macdonald wrote: Hi, I wanted to get general comment/concensus about a top level name that I am proposing. I'm starting to organize a set of modules for managing jobs on a computer cluster. I intend it to work much like DBI - with a top level abstract interface

Re: Broken CPAN Modules

2014-09-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 09/16/2014 06:16 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Actually, while I managed to install quite a few modules, there were a few that were not found on CPAN by cpanm: eg. Dancer, Catalyst::Runtime and WWW::Shorten For example I just saw this: $ cpanm Catalyst::Runtime Catalyst::Runtime -- Working on

Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-09 Thread James E Keenan
This weekend I gave my CPAN library CPAN-Mini-Visit-Simple an overhaul, a large part of which was guaranteeing that CPAN Testers handled the absence of a minicpan gracefully. As a result, for the first time I'm getting lots of green on my results matrix

Re: Test failing on Windows but not elsewhere

2015-03-10 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/09/2015 07:54 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:44 PM, James E Keenan jk...@verizon.net wrote: Suggestions? I would guess a quotemeta (for example in the form of \Q$id_dir\E) will fix your problem. Leon Thanks, Leon, that appeared to work: http

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/30/2015 06:10 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed

Re: =head1 SEEN ALSO BY

2015-04-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/04/2015 10:43 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Hi Tim, * Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com [2015-04-04 13:25]: Independently of that, I'd love to see something like a 'mentioned by' page. It would list all other distros that mention (via an LFoo link) a module in this distro. d’oh – of

Re: Comment on module name Data::ETL

2016-05-05 Thread James E Keenan
On 05/04/2016 09:27 AM, Smylers wrote: Robert Wohlfarth writes: I'm weighing 3 ideas... 2. Create a top-level namespace for ETL. Idea 2 looks like so... * ETL * ETL::Extract * ETL::Extract::Excel * ETL::Extract::DelimitedText * ETL::Extract::XML * ETL::Load * ETL::Load::MSAccess Not

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