(Create a new ?) namespace for applications on CPAN

2007-05-16 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker, and that means I ramble a bit from lack of skill in making short sentences. Please bear with me.) Hi module authors, I'm DOMQ on CPAN, and I'm about to release a new application, NutsPKI. Problem is, I don't

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

2007-05-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: (Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker, and that means I ramble a bit from lack of skill in making short sentences. Please bear with me.) Hi module authors, I'm DOMQ on CPAN, and I'm about to release a new application, NutsPKI.

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

2007-05-16 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: I'm DOMQ on CPAN, and I'm about to release a new application, NutsPKI. Problem is, I don't know where to put it on the CPAN, if at all. Shlomi Fish then wrote: Just put it under the App::

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

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
On May 16, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: Thanks for the insight; indeed there is precedent here (for the record: App::SimpleScan, App::Addex, App::GUI::Notepad etc). But there are even more folks who use the App:: namespace to write modules *for* applications (App::CLI,

Re: How to recognize modules that needs compilation?

2007-05-16 Thread Alexandr Ciornii
Gabor Szabo wrote: I would like to create a list of modules that need compilations as opposed to those that are pure perl Is checking for a file with .xs .c or .h extension in the distribution the correct thing to do? Is there a better way to collect this information or is it already available

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

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Lester # on Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:31 am: On May 16, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Maybe for some value of correct. An equally likely answer is that they are both wrong. I've asked this question before and it doesn't seem to have a good answer.

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

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
I would like it to be more consistent though. Good luck on that. Tell us how it goes. We should make a magic 8 ball faq generator. When someone asks a new question about some un-enforced CPAN policy, it makes a random decision and posts the result somewhere for future reference. Some

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

2007-05-16 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Lester wrote: Are you going to organize the Conference On Namespace Decisions? Quoting http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about : # * Please,* talk to other people (comp.lang.perl.modules, # [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any mailing list

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

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Lester
On May 16, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Dominique Quatravaux wrote: Overall, far too much time is spent navel-gazing over Namespaces And How They Should Be. As a novice CPAN author, I apologize (sincerely? You figure it out!) for wasting your time trying to do the right thing. I'm glad you asked, and

CPAN::Porters

2007-05-16 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, I would like to improve the coverage of the CPAN distributions available as binary packages in the various distributions. If you look at the stats I created recently ActiveState provide 5-7000 modules depending on platform while FreeBSD has only 2600, Debian only 1000 and others probably

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

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Lester # on Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:58 am: I don't see that there's anything confusing in using App:: for both   modules that are apps, and that access other apps, You forgot modules that get used by applications, which was Dominique's original concern. In fact, it generated

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: CPAN::Porters

2007-05-16 Thread James 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

Testing for installed headers (and dictionary)

2007-05-16 Thread Bill Moseley
Text::Aspell is an XS interface to GNU Aspell. The module always has a large number of cpan-testers failures. They seem to be mostly of two types. One is: Aspell.xs:4:20: error: aspell.h: No such file or directory Yes, aspell needs to be installed. Second, the module is for spell