Re: What is the "best" code on the CPAN?

2012-02-07 Thread Mike Doherty
Dist::Zilla is also something you might want to actually /use/ :D -Mike On 12-02-07 09:34 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Jeffrey Thalhammer > wrote: >> So in your opinion, which distribution on the CPAN best demonstrates these >> qualities? > > Dist::Zilla > > Leav

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-10 Thread Mike Doherty
On 12-04-10 05:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:20:20PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> 2. Should use_ok() be discouraged in the documentation? > > I'm very much in favour of this. I don't see any discouragement in the documentation... and what's wrong with use_ok to beg

Re: Revert use_ok() change to allow lexical effects?

2012-04-10 Thread Mike Doherty
On 12-04-10 05:59 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Mike Doherty wrote: >> I don't see any discouragement in the documentation... and what's wrong >> with use_ok to begin with? > > If it fails, the module may not be loaded,

Re: interest in converting LWP / Mech hierarchy to roles?

2013-02-28 Thread Mike Doherty
On 13-02-28 09:07 AM, Yanick Champoux wrote: On 13-02-27 11:04 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote: Perhaps if some of these get converted to extend-by-roles instead of extend-by-inheritance, some others will follow along, and we'll end up with a more useful of collection of Perl-based browser extensions.

Re: Conflicts in the meta spec

2013-04-15 Thread Mike Doherty
On 13-04-15 01:56 PM, Michael G. Schwern wrote: Why we need this, why you can't do it with "requires" is because this is for modules which you do not depend on. Often they depend on you. MooseX::Blah depends on Moose, so Moose declares conflict with versions of MooseX::Blah it breaks. This req

Re: Unicode output with Test::More

2014-02-15 Thread Mike Doherty
IIRC, Test::More::UTF8 does the right thing. -Mike On 14-02-15 11:22 AM, Olivier Mengué wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use non-ASCII, non-Latin-1 characters in test script output. > > So far I've written the following: > > > use Test::More; > use Term::Encoding 'term_encoding'; > my $enc =

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Doherty
Doesn't cpan know how to use curl or wget if the system has it installed? Probably easier to bootstrap TLS support in perl that way. -Mike On Feb 3, 2015 2:26 PM, "Michiel Beijen" wrote: > Hi, > > This Saturday at FOSDEM in the hallway I had some discussions with > leont, Tux and later also wit