Re: Module name

2008-01-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
::AnyData::CSV is a module that subclasses Tie::File::AnyData. It allows to group multiple CSV lines into 1 record based on a given field. I am looking for a proper name for this module too, maybe Tie::File::Formats::MultilineCSV. Tie::File::Record::CSV::Grouped Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: Maintenance of IO::Socket::INET6

2008-02-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. I for one would be terribly upset to find someone had appropriated code of mine before I got a chance to have a say in the matter, *even if* I would have been willing (possibly even glad) to pass the pumpkin on. It’s just courtesy. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: RFC: URI::cpan

2008-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Hans Dieter Pearcey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-26 18:20]: (or perhaps /id/ID instead.) ++ Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: RFC: URI::cpan

2008-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of representations – or none at all. Some of them may be identical with the representation of a different resource during a particular time period, even though they’re different resources (such as /dist/Foo-Bar and /dist/Foo-Bar-1.23). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: How to declare dependency on other modules?

2008-04-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of the huge dependency tree of Catalyst was only required by the dev tools. So if you were lazy and relied on your Catalyst dependency pulling in all those other kitchen sinks, then after the split your app would no longer install. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: shipping extra files in a dist?

2008-04-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. `perldoc pack`), etc. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Why is use_ok failing in this test script?

2008-05-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: How to challenge a cpan-testers test result?

2008-05-27 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
programmers will have. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Licenses of CPAN modules

2008-06-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
you mean. In case of the Artistic Licence, there is no 1.0 version as it was never called Artistic 1.0 prior to the work on Artistic 2.0. Using a version number in the name is purely a marketing device. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Licenses of CPAN modules

2008-06-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
proliferation is a good idea, but sometimes their code is coupled to someone else’s and they have no choice.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Licenses of CPAN modules

2008-06-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
in declaring licenses in CPAN modules. That is also a good idea, of course. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Must exist, right?

2008-06-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
don’t have any plans to inflict your creation on production code then that’s great too: learning by doing provides the deepest understanding. But “$system/$library/$framework intimidates me” is not a valid reason to do a zero-effort hack. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-06-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
that, the problem is that any name you pick is inevitably going to be quite long. The only suggestion that occurs to me is the File::Spec vs File::Spec::Functions precedent, which would suggest Exception::Class::Functions for your module. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-06-30 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. You’ve seen Sub::Exporter? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-07-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
could immediately guess pretty well at what it does, even if I didn’t know exactly. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-07-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-02 18:30]: * On Tue, Jul 01 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: If I see a module called Exception::Easy in a list of modules, I have *absolutely no idea* what it does. In contrast, if it was Exception::Class::Functions, I could immediately guess

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-07-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-03 00:25]: In fact, the “simplified” in “simplified interface” is largely redundant. Using an interface by definition means you are looking for simplification in doing or accessing the thing that the interface provides. Similar words that say

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-07-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-03 02:00]: # from Aristotle Pagaltzis # on Wednesday 02 July 2008 15:21: no one would call a module Exception::Complicated except as a joke. Well, you're going to have a hard time predicting what a gaggle of zany programmers might do, especially

Re: Name space: throwing exceptions easily

2008-07-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
the razz smiley. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: VERSION and VCS

2008-07-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-09 17:10]: What are the alternatives? You probably want to use git-describe in your build script. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Proposal: Test::Refcount

2008-07-16 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Paul LeoNerd Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-14 23:20]: If it still fails, perhaps try my $object = shift; my $count = shift; my $name = shift; that way it'll remove the ref. from @_ as it goes. my ( $object, $count, $name ) = @_; @_ = (); ? Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: [RESEND] Machine-Manipulatable Arguments for Module::Build

2008-08-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, it actually falls over most of the time. Grind your code through Acme::Bleach and give it PPI, f.ex.; you’ll get nothing interesting out the other side. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: PPI vs Acme::Bleach

2008-08-04 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-04 09:15]: # from Aristotle Pagaltzis # on Sunday 03 August 2008 21:25: but if you consider all possible valid Perl code files that do something useful, it actually falls over most of the time. Grind your code through Acme::Bleach and give it PPI

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to allow user commentary inline with distro views Adding a social network could work very nicely, both to partly address several of the things you listed as well as to add other equally useful features. (No, I’m not joking. :-) ) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 17:55]: Note that this differs from ratings, which I don't find very useful at all. Agreed. And trust networking is how humans are wired anyway. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 18:05]: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 17:55]: Note that this differs from ratings, which I don't find very useful at all. Agreed. And trust

Re: Regulating Module Authorship

2008-09-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 23:15]: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: formal trust metrics can be gamed. That's also how humans are wired. Sure, but not to any useful extent if they are person-centric

Re: The problem with auto-installing dependencies

2008-10-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
a dependency without any hesitation at all. In other cases I do not even consider dependencies. Usually it takes me a while to decide. It always depends a great deal. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The problem with auto-installing dependencies

2008-10-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Module::Install is a time bomb

2008-10-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
part of Module::Build proper? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

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

2008-10-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
% of that is still a big number. That is why the CPAN is useful. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

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

2008-10-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
is all about the long tail. Boring and descriptive beats cute and creative in naming a CPAN-scale number of things. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
and insubstantial in their essence. But I can only ignore them at my (variously terrible) peril, and so for better of for worse, I know and care. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The value of threads (was Re: META.yml how to declare the need for threaded perl?)

2008-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/threads_suck.html Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: S_IFLNK() Availability on Win32 (and other non-UNIX systems)

2009-01-14 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
value will be unchanged a long time later. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: ARGH!

2009-02-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
outside your own package is easy to do, there’s some pretty repulsive syntactic salt associated with it – as it should be. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: ARGH!

2009-02-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
with their privates. Let me guess – it’s not worth the effort, right? If I cared, I would already know… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: New Module

2009-05-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it has is search.cpan.org results page, then most potential users will miss it unless its name is descriptive and based on keywords someone might actually use to search for something like it. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: New Module

2009-05-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway j...@jrock.us [2009-05-03 08:00]: * On Sat, May 02 2009, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Yeah, if there are thousands of other programmers using a module, then its name can be pretty much anything. If more or less the only marketing it has is search.cpan.org results page

Re: New Module

2009-05-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to pop up and there’ve been plenty of genuinely interesting posts in them. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Anyone want to adopt Getopt::Auto?

2009-06-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* 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, http://github.com/ap/Getopt--Auto has my work now

Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http://

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: How to best detect availability of C compiler in Makefile.PL?

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
pure-Perl modules also? This is not the first time I see this argument and I never understood it. *headscratch* Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: naming advice required

2009-11-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
problematic. Because ultimately what matters is that things be findable by sticking the obvious keywords into search.cpan.org. Github::Fork::Parent is quite acceptable by that criterion. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: flame bait: execution speed Perl vs. C (Date::Calc::PP vs. Date::Calc::XS)

2009-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* O. STeffen BEYer ost...@gmail.com [2009-11-18 13:10]: One can see from these results that the XS version quite consistently runs approximately about 15 times faster than the PP version. This is flame bait? Why is this flame bait? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: flame bait: execution speed Perl vs. C (Date::Calc::PP vs. Date::Calc::XS)

2009-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
any time soon. Bah.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: bug in Net::Cmd/how to do pop3s for gmail

2009-11-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
would have to be adopted ecosystem-wide. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

SQLite concurrency [was: Writing tests]

2009-12-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
multiple processes to operate on the same database file concurrently. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: satiating cpantesters

2010-01-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. The program succeeded. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Can't cpan WWW::Mechanize

2010-01-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
to get it back. And no, I'm not going to try again. How many times have you tried it? Just the once? I’ve done that dozens of times and never had a problem. It’s *supposed* to work. If it reproducibly breaks your setup, there’s a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed. Regards, -- Aristotle

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

2010-02-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-targetted spam every… 1.5 years or so? I guess we’re doing OK, all things considered. But as I said, it’s a familiar scene nonetheless. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-03-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
operate on user input directly, and the operation can blow up, you can leave that input unchecked for the purposes of error reporting. (You might of course still want to check it for other reasons, eg. security. That’s a different matter.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Prerequistie for Marpa::HTML

2010-03-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of the cpantesters setups. No. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Prerequistie for Marpa::HTML

2010-03-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of a mystery. Hmm. (Nevertheless, your solution is the correct thing to do, so don’t go reverting it.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Q about prerequisites

2010-03-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
of these, really. There should really be a `test_requires`. However, in absence of that option, what remains to be said is that both `configure_requires` and `requires` are more wrong than `build_requires`, so that’s what you should pick for now. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
serious reason against this? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
pointed this out: by first fetching a transaction log from the remote end, then playing it forward from the last synch point. (This is essentially what CPAN::Mini already does.) It’s not very efficient protocol-wise, but it sure is rather cheap in terms of server I/O. Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
rsync to feed an SQLite database that drives an FTP transfer? Could you even possibly come up with a more Rube-Goldbergian construction? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
} for %{mode}ing: %{errno}', }, ); You’d use that like so: open my $fh, '', $filename or throw_io_open file = $filename, mode = 'read', errno = $!; Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
is that you want to avoid a situation where catching code has to parse the error message. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: When and how to throw exceptions?

2010-04-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
selection key would at least preclude the need parse. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

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

2010-05-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2010-05-11 15:40]: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net [2010-05-11 05:00]: Also, the approach Dist::Zilla takes with the 'configure_requires' and 'build_requires' keys is to remove

Re: Roles on the CPAN

2010-08-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
TraitFor, or else just appending Role. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
in the black_magic category. The ${OS}_only tags only seem haphazard and like a bad place to put that information… why is there no `vms_only` or such? What if something works on FreeBSD and Linux but not MacOS? Is MacOS a true Unix? It seems like a rather random collection. Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
-9 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
/::([^:]*)$/print$1,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]/e;chop;$_} Just-another-Perl-hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
version that didn't match what you created it with. That way lies madness. Good point. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Storable Stream - Module namespace help

2010-08-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Joshua ben Jore twi...@gmail.com [2010-08-09 06:15]: I'd feel much better suggesting you consider streaming with YAML or JSON or something hand-rolled but anything but Storable. I would strike YAML from that list as well. Whereas JSON is great. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-09-10 08:20]: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de I would write that my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; :-) (To my way of thinking, the invocant is not a positional argument, so I always pull it out

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com [2010-09-10 14:30]: On 10-09-10 03:02 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: sub foo { my $self = shift; my $self = shift @_; Always put the array in the shift. Why? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it happens to be hash-based. Miyagawa and I struggled with this in writing Hash::MultiValue and eventually he settled for this: http://p3rl.org/Hash::MultiValue#NOTES_ON_ref. Perl( 5) just doesn’t really provide semantics for distinguishing interface from implementation there. Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
.” Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: my $self = shift

2010-09-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl [2010-09-13 08:05]: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de writes: You don’t want to reach inside an object just because it happens to be hash-based. Interesting. For Getopt::Long (that can take an optional hashref as its first argument) I got explicit

Re: Looking for a name(-space)

2010-10-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
for modules with narrower focus. So I would pick some name in Schedule:: that captures the mission statement for your module, especially as distinct from the other modules that already exist. Eg. something like AdaptiveThrottler (if I skimmed your POD right). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
until the work trickles out far enough that people could start relying on it. For quite piddly gains, in absolute numbers. I really don’t see the point. Gzip is Good Enough. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
with very large bundled data files so one might as well use it for them since the support exists. I just don’t want to see a campaign against gzip. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il [2010-11-24 21:05]: Welcome to 2010. There are two kinds of fool. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, “This is new, and therefore better.” —John Brunner Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules

2010-11-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. And note that distributions which ship packages for CPAN modules are effectively already doing exactly that. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org [2011-07-29 13:25]: One reason I have not converted wholesale to metacpan is because it redirects all http:// requests to https:// . Very annoying. http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html In January this year (2010), Gmail

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Arthur Corliss corl...@digitalmages.com [2011-08-28 19:55]: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been

Module::Build::Tiny

2011-08-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
be interested in whether any omissions mentioned in the POD are design choices or the idea is to add them in the future, and which if so.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
remember off hand, so that nobody is using it in anger). But more generally your point is a good one. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: MetaCPAN is quickly becoming the de-facto interface to CPAN

2011-09-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
make such companies better: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2006/02/choosing-sides_27.html http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000938.html Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Starting a module's history from gitpan

2011-10-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. And with git, keeping that extra history around takes no space to speak of. I don’t really see the point of *not* doing it, considering how little effort it takes with the tools we have nowadays. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Starting a module's history from gitpan

2011-10-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
your a new repo on Github, and then switching the `origin` URL of your clone to your own repo URL and pushing it. and that might somehow have negative side-effects. Nah. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: New module naming

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Trystan trysta...@gmail.com [2011-11-06 23:30]: I found this idea in Head First OOADhttp://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfooad/, chapter 5. It's somewhat like a very simple version of Key-Value

Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
documentation to ridiculous commentary like this. Dig deep and you can probably figure it out. A lot of them are ignored. A lot of them are not. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Politics Personalities - was Re: New module naming

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
and valuable contributions being totally ignored because their ideas are not popular. I *thought* that we had gone beyond this petty stuff. Clearly I was was wrong. Pot, kettle. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Bob Parker b...@perldevgeek.com [2011-11-08 00:30]: Clearly you are another fanboy of Shlomi's. You found me out. I am two days short of proposing gay marriage to him. * Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2011-11-07 23:50]: * sawyer x xsawy...@gmail.com [2011-11-07 12:40

Re: Taking another swing [was: New module naming]

2011-11-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The module authors pledge

2011-11-11 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* yan...@babyl.dyndns.org yan...@babyl.dyndns.org [2011-11-11 22:30]: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:27:04PM +, Neil Bowers wrote: I think this would still have to be a mechanism that an author has to sign up to, rather than it automatically being applied. Considering the nature of CPAN, I

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
a promise to maintain the module, which is not the point. OwnershipCovenant is probably the most accurate, but ugh… Anyway, I’ll put the brush aside. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Brandon Fosdick bfosd...@gmail.com [2011-11-21 06:30]: Escheat is a common law doctrine which transfers the property of a person who dies without heirs to the crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in limbo without recognised ownership. That seems morbid, considering

Re: Module naming: postifx/dovecot/MySQL configuration

2011-12-13 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
just mentioned vpopmail. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: XML-LibXML's 2.* Versioning Scheme: Please Advise.

2012-06-01 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
date-based versions, of course, and thus a major attraction, but you do retain the same information they provide (save for the exact age in days, which is meaninglessly precise in the grand scheme of things). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: module name for a tutorial or example or sample module

2012-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it means “this is stupid or crazy but in any case inadvisable, yet still funny or cool, and I wanted to put it out there for people to look at”. And your code would clearly be out of place in such a category. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Continued life of my GitPan fork

2012-06-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
it comes down to a GitHub question (how do I dissociate a fork from its original repository). Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: Text::TemplateLite syntax, was Re: Please help me name my text template module...

2012-11-15 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
syntax has the benefit of being easily balance-checkable in an editor such as vim. “Non-programmers” “an editor such as vim”. I see. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

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