Re: Why Alien:: Dists Should not be optional

2018-08-01 Thread Andy Lester
> > Alien:: distributions on CPAN (see https://github.com/Perl5-Alien > ) should > not be made an optional requirement by their reverse deps because this will > mean duplicate logic at best, and a broken build process at worst. I’m not sure I see what you’re

COMAINT on B-LexInfo

2016-06-21 Thread Andy Lester
Can someone please assign me COMAINT on B-LexInfo, rather than making Doug do it himself? Thanks, Andy > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Doug MacEachern <doug.maceach...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Updates to B::LexInfo > Date: June 20, 2016 at 10:49:00 PM

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-25 Thread Andy Lester
, including magnitude, I can begin to be concerned. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Consensus on MakeMaker vs. Module::Build vs. Module::Install?

2010-03-22 Thread Andy Lester
On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: No. The closest is don't use MakeMaker, but even that's something people will still argue about. And for module starting you have both Module::Starter and Dist::Zilla. -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com

Re: Spam to CPAN Developers? (Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position)

2010-02-10 Thread Andy Lester
guy in Malaysia sending us all mail, and this doesn't turn into a huge metadiscussion. Please? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Writing tests with WWW:Mechanize

2010-01-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Rene Schickbauer wrote: I'm currently writing some tests using WWW::Mechanize. In normal mode it works quite well. Please post this to the www-mechanize-users list. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: What's the current 'best practices' for module license

2009-08-26 Thread Andy Lester
/2009/07/help-end-licensing-under-same-terms-as-perl-itself.html -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: What's the current 'best practices' for module license

2009-08-26 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Allison recently sent me this link on TPF: http://www.perlfoundation.org/cpan_licensing_guidelines Nice, tweeted on @perlbuzz, thanks. xoa -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: should we still be registering module namespaces?

2009-08-17 Thread Andy Lester
: Is there any -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module

2009-08-13 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Adrian Howard wrote: Make an ABANDONED PAUSE user and give modules to it? I thought of that, but unless somehow the modules came out of PETDANCE into ABANDONED's directory, I still look like the owner. -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com

I'd like a way to abandon a module

2009-08-12 Thread Andy Lester
of having someone else's module. It makes sense for any module for which the maintainer no longer has any interest in keeping it up. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Perl Monks compromised, PAUSE accounts at risk

2009-07-30 Thread Andy Lester
On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:58 AM, imacat wrote: Dear all, I received this mail today. Is this real? Or is it another phishing? It's real. http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/39373 xoa -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Help understanding module-starter aka Module::Starter

2009-07-30 Thread Andy Lester
module. It's meant to be thrown away once you get it passing. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Help understanding module-starter aka Module::Starter

2009-07-30 Thread Andy Lester
/ boilerplate.t would make sure that you do NOT still have YOUR NAME HERE in the code. xoa -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Best way to abandon usable code?

2009-05-26 Thread Andy Lester
On May 26, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: Is there some best place for abandoning useful code without having to bother maintaining it? Usable code without author maintenance? Sounds like many CPAN authors have beat you to it! :-) xoa -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com

Re: PBP Module Recommendation Commentary and recent CPAN ratings spammings

2009-04-08 Thread Andy Lester
as maybe I think this page is mostly ridiculous. What do you think? I think you should update it. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: RFC: Yet Another Excel Writer..

2009-03-30 Thread Andy Lester
it, and your module may be far-and- away better than all the others, for some value of better, for some population. Or it might be a steaming pile of crap, and nobody ever uses it. Or a little of both, depending. But that's how open source works! xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester

Re: Specifying different bug trackers?

2009-01-27 Thread Andy Lester
. It would be nice if rt.cpan.org allowed authors to shut down queues, but hey, I'm not arguing with a free service. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.

2008-10-12 Thread Andy Lester
On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: It just seems to me to be a bad way to maintain an orderly repository. I don't see that top-level names mean anything. It's not like anyone browses through them. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Proposal: Test::Refcount

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Lester
On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: Does this sound good? Yes, and if it sounds like it would actually supercede Test::Memory::Cycle, I would be glad to abandon T:M:C in favor of yours. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Incorrect guessing the part of CPANTS

2008-06-19 Thread Andy Lester
are appropriate because ack is a single program, with no user serviceable parts inside. * And, a suggestion: Add links to the project home page and the project's actual bug tracker on http://cpants.perl.org/dist/external/ack xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com

Re: Template oriented module

2008-06-15 Thread Andy Lester
On Jun 15, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: I don't have suggestions on the rest, but don't reinvent this wheel; Unless you can make a better wheel. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: New CPANTS metrics

2008-06-10 Thread Andy Lester
and appreciate us for telling you. -- -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-06 Thread Andy Lester
://groups.google.com/group/rethinking-cpan I welcome your thoughts, discussions, and ideas. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
what you're discussing. $picture == @words[0..999]. I think it's far more useful to talk about these human issues first. The technical answers will fall out of the requirements that get created. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
the tactical (Let's have reviews) to the strategic (How do we get the proper modules/solutions in the hands of the users that want them.) -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: If you have a tactic for deploying a strategy, I would like to hear it. Like-minded strategists get together and deploy a single solution. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
-to-cpan.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Removing or Archiving outdated and unsupported modules on CPAN; proposal

2008-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
of the unfettered uploading of shit, not in spite of it. As an example, WWW::Mechanize has a ton of bugs in RT. I believe it has zero. However, there are currently 39 in the issue tracker at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/www-mechanize/issues/list xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL

Re: uniform version numbers for CPAN modules

2008-03-03 Thread Andy Lester
the standard should be. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

cpan-testers in the inbox

2008-02-11 Thread Andy Lester
http://log.perl.org/2008/02/no-more-email-d.html Well I guess that settles that. :) xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-29 Thread Andy Lester
different rules for different clients. # CPAN tester bot info file v0.1 humans: report-by: SMTP foobot: report-by: none barbot: report-by: Mechanism-name or whatever. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-29 Thread Andy Lester
rely on someone saying Yes, report this to the author as well when he reports the problem. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-29 Thread Andy Lester
all the owners of every module if their modules don't run under taint mode? Whether or not you see the validity in it, please consider my point of view on this. Again, I ask: I would like bot notification to be opt-in only. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-29 Thread Andy Lester
use cases. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Lester
sure appreciate it if the automated bot owners would actually look, with human eyes, at whether their failures are legitimate before sending them off. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Lester
to say Thanks, but no thanks? xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Lester
of cash money every time I used it. THAT is the sort of supply that I have demand for. I'm not disputing that the smoke bots are useful. I just want choice rather than having results shoved at me unwanted. Surely that's not unreasonable. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FAIL Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 i386-freebsd 6.1-release

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Lester
are there for everybody to see. I mean in my inbox. Yes, I can filter stuff out from bots, but at that point it seems backwards. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: With the Macrame macro system, Perl may now be a Lisp.

2007-12-07 Thread Andy Lester
uploading of shit, not in spite of it. /mantra xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Tk / Nick Ing-Simmons

2007-11-22 Thread Andy Lester
, but never got around to it. I think it would be tremendous to get Tk up and running again. Heck, I might even help. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Tk / Nick Ing-Simmons

2007-11-22 Thread Andy Lester
On Nov 22, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: I think you're missing what Slaven has been up to: http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-804.027_501/ Duh, and I even gave him rights to it. :-( -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: distributed/centralized META.yml data

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Lester
think what's missing most of the time, certainly in discussions like this, is the part of invent where a usable solution winds up existing. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: distributed/centralized META.yml data

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Lester
. If a better solution comes along, then we change to it. I'm baffled by the fear we have of changing things, of making a first stab at something for fear that we might have to change it again. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
ball? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
as well. It has nothing to do with humans reading the META.yml in the build directory, and everything to do with how search.cpan.org sees it. Thank you, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
to see if EU::MM supports them -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
should live somewhere and search.cpan should use it, but META.yml is the wrong place. It belongs somewhere unversioned. Best is the enemy of the good. Moving forward with META.yml for WWW::Mechanize and Test::WWW::Mechanize. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:25:34PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-29 23:15]: Best is the enemy of the good. And next time this will be handy, it will also be too big a change vs. an incremental suboptimal solution, and the overnext

Re: New fields for META.yml

2007-10-29 Thread Andy Lester
like whether the data should live on the CPAN FTP itself or should search.cpan gain an account system? search.cpan.org is not the CPAN. It is a view of the data. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

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

2007-06-05 Thread Andy Lester
-- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: anybody feel like translating some PHP to Perl?

2007-05-25 Thread Andy Lester
On May 25, 2007, at 12:04 PM, David Nicol wrote: http://news.com.com/2100-1029-6186430.html I don't understand the PHP-Perl angle. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Modules are NOT missing on CPAN, Andy screwed up

2007-05-24 Thread Andy Lester
Ok, yes, I screwed up twice. All is fine. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread Andy Lester
/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ shows 1.24 and 1.29_01 * http://cpan.groovis.net/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ shows 1.24, 1.26 and 1.29_01 Please tell me someone's aware of this besides me. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread Andy Lester
/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ Please tell me someone's aware of this besides me. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Modules are missing on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread Andy Lester
/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/ Please tell me someone's aware of this besides me. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-23 Thread Andy Lester
to program being what you get at the opera, and script the lines of a play. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-22 Thread Andy Lester
by professionals who are legendary for failing to get the girl. None of that has any bearing on the sort of change in thinking I'm working on. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: script or program?

2007-05-22 Thread Andy Lester
On May 22, 2007, at 11:25 AM, David Nicol wrote: None of that has any bearing on the sort of change in thinking I'm working on. Okay, Andy Petdance Lester, vent your spleen. We're all ears. I'm not sure where you're going here. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com

Re: search.cpan.org search oddness

2007-05-22 Thread Andy Lester
. Law of least surprise and all that. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
change for the sake of it. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
B. App:: is already in use as a namespace for Modules. That's a distinction that is not at all clear, and will not be understood by most users. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
On May 17, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Johan Vromans wrote: Even perl distinguishes 'bin' from 'script', so 'script' would be better. I'm trying hard to get people to stop saying script when referring to their Perl programs. I'd prefer that we not use it anywhere at all. xoa -- Andy Lester

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
no hierarchy. There just isn't. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
extensions, we asked people to use MasonX for similar reasons. That's fine. I'm not disagreeing with that. Point is that there's all sorts of stuff out there that doesn't even come close to being in a strict hierarchy. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: bin:: namespace for utilities on CPAN

2007-05-17 Thread Andy Lester
::Mechanize has stuff that installs into bin. etc etc etc -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
::Info etc). Is there a document somewhere that tells which one (or both) of these usages is correct No. They both are correct. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
. Overall, far too much time is spent navel-gazing over Namespaces And How They Should Be. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: (Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
something that will never be organized, never can be organized, and probably shouldn't ever be. In this case, App:: is as good an answer as exists, and to go beyond that is silly. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Module name - smoke testing automation

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Lester
of date a test set is, whether it's been marked as prioritized, etc. Also it needs to be able to run on multiple configurations, so you can have Makefile.PL or configure with multiple sets of arguments. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-03 Thread Andy Lester
, the SourceForge interface is godawful and I just don't like using it. But hey, if you like SourceForge, stick with it. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
to the project. Both of those require human intervention if you host it on svn.perl.org. But I see from http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=606275 that you've asked and been responded to there about this. I wonder why you still want svn.perl.org. Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
. But I see from http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=606275 You must be mistaking me for someone else on this point. I am not referenced on that node. Yes, my mistake. David Golden commented on the thread here, and on perlmonks, and I had a brainfart. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
of the already overworked and tireless Ask and Robrt. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Who controls svn.perl.org?

2007-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
to remind people on sourceforge... one can only hope google fares better in the feature. And if it sucks in the future, then move it somewhere else. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 16, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: And I have strong sentiments against doing What Everyone Else Does (tm) and conformism. Doing things others do is not conforism. Doing things others don't do is not non-conformism. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com

Re: Delete hate speech module

2007-02-07 Thread Andy Lester
not have attention called to it. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

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

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Lester
either unloved or unused? And unupdated certainly doesn't mean that they're not valuable. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Phalanx Phoenix: Mentored Maintenance of CPAN Modules

2006-11-28 Thread Andy Lester
cool, James. Thanks for kicking it off. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Take back your modules! (was: Re: Give up your modules!)

2006-09-07 Thread Andy Lester
perlmonks too. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Andy Lester
code or code I maintain. It's a program. (Re-making my mental note to transcribe Stop saying 'script') xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Dependency trees

2006-07-21 Thread Andy Lester
, I'll write it. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thanks, xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.socialtext.com

Re: App::* - what's it for?

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Lester
a version number.  So ack has App::Ack, and hwd has App::HWD, etc.xoxo,Andy --Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Assume Co-Maintainership of Mail-Webmail-Gmail

2006-03-10 Thread Andy Lester
Honestly, though, why would anyone care? GMail offers POP3 access now, so scraping their web pages to get at the information is a pointless excercise. I don't see that it matters. Besides, it keeps him busy! -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: advice on where to put my perl modules

2006-01-14 Thread Andy Lester
at what your MyLibrary stuff is and how you could genericize out the good parts into stuff that maybe non-MyLibrary people would use. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: advice on where to put my perl modules

2006-01-14 Thread Andy Lester
Is there another word for Library and Library Science? The word library is a term with many meanings. There's already stuff in Bibilio::, which is what was sort of what was decided on last time this came up, over on perl4lib, I think. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com

Re: advice on where to put my perl modules

2006-01-14 Thread Andy Lester
use both. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: advice on where to put my perl modules

2006-01-14 Thread Andy Lester
Finally, the reason Andy Lester was saying hit him up on AIM is that he spent 15 years working as a Perl/library scientist (http://petdance.com/resume/). brian d foy told us at the Los Angeles Perl Mongers meeting that he recently left that job for SocialText. Eric and I have lived on the same

Re: Another CPANTS/pod_coverage.t rant - FULL VERSION

2005-11-14 Thread Andy Lester
can rm t/*.t; perl -ni -e'print unless m[t/pod]' MANIFEST if they don't like the tests. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Another CPANTS/pod_coverage.t rant - FULL VERSION

2005-11-14 Thread Andy Lester
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Ovid wrote: --- Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Module::Starter is a case where I'm using the package as evangelism. If it's for evangalism, could we have Build.PL do the right thing and have Module::Starter::Simple add the following line

Re: Another CPANTS/pod_coverage.t rant - FULL VERSION

2005-11-13 Thread Andy Lester
version. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Checking for boilerplate

2005-08-25 Thread Andy Lester
to use. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Checking for boilerplate

2005-08-24 Thread Andy Lester
thrives BECAUSE we allow unfettered uploading of shit, not in spite of it. http://use.perl.org/~petdance/journal/25684 -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Checking for boilerplate

2005-08-24 Thread Andy Lester
. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Checking for boilerplate

2005-08-24 Thread Andy Lester
also have all the spam in the Test::Harness RT database and it drives me nuts. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: RFC - Test::Stupid module

2005-08-22 Thread Andy Lester
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:30:01AM +0200, David Landgren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or have Module::Starter know how to include site-local boilerplate. I It does. Plugins. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: RFC - Test::Stupid module

2005-08-19 Thread Andy Lester
stupid? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: RFC - Test::Stupid module

2005-08-19 Thread Andy Lester
of our own stupidity. You can use Module::Starter. I tried to make sure it used much better defaults, including putting the name and email address in there for you. Patches welcome. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Andy Lester
What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possible to try them so I can get feedback from the community. How do I spread the

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Andy Lester
The first is my object/relational database mapper thingie. I don't know what the formal name for it is, but it's in roughly the same family as Class::DBI, Alzabo, Tangram, etc. I think this module has the most potential for wide-spread interest, judging by how much activity there is

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