perl.qa...Re: great search.cpan.org ideas by David Cantrell- July 1, 2008 On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:42:55PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:> On 1 Jul 2008, at 14:35, David Cantrell wrote:> >Even if you had the source code, it would still be up to him to add > >your patch to the copy of the code that runs that particular site. In> >reality, if people suggest things, and he thinks they&39;re a good idea,> >then he does them. Especially if it&39;s something as simple as adding a> >link to a page.> That&39;s true - but it discourages..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11014.html Re: The Definitive CPANTs Summary by Andy Lester- July 1, 2008 On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:29 AM, Ovid wrote:> 1. CPANTs was not only fun, but it was (and is) helpful.> 2. "Non-kwalitee" metrics crept in.> 3. Some people are upset about gaming.> 4. Some people love gaming.> 5. Many people can reasonably disagree on what "value" means.Note that nowhere in here does the word "user" appear.xoxo,Andy--Andy Lester => andypetdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdancehttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11013.html Re: great search.cpan.org ideas by Andy Armstrong- July 1, 2008 On 1 Jul 2008, at 14:35, David Cantrell wrote:> Even if you had the source code, it would still be up to him to add > your> patch to the copy of the code that runs that particular site. In> reality, if people suggest things, and he thinks they&39;re a good idea,> then he does them. Especially if it&39;s something as simple as adding a> link to a page.That&39;s true - but it discourages people from experimenting with new UI ideas like, say, integrating tagging into s.c.o....http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11012.html Re: great search.cpan.org ideas by David Cantrell- July 1, 2008 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:48:28PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:> Right. Which is another reason I&39;ve started up rethinking-cpan ...How do I subscribe to that list-- David Cantrell Hero of the Information Age I apologize if I offended you personally, I intended to do it professionally. -- Steve Champeon, on the nanog listhttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11011.html Re: RFC Dual-lifing test.pl by Nicholas Clark- July 1, 2008 On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:31:22AM -0400, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:> If the functionality in test.pl (that does not currently> exist in other module) could be duplicated elsewhere using a> Test::Builder-based module, would there be a reason then to> maintain test.pl Would it be better then to eliminate> test.pl entirelyNo, it should stay. It intentionally doesn&39;t use packages internally, and (atleast) some other constructions. (specifically ++.Although a quick skim suggests that.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11010.html Re: great search.cpan.org ideas by David Cantrell- July 1, 2008 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:46:08PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:> from Paul Fenwick> on Monday 30 June 2008 17:17:> > Let&39;s pretend you&39;re J. Average Hacker. You&39;ve popped over to CPAN...> > http:search.cpan.orgsartakMoose-0.51libMoose.pm> Let&39;s pretend you&39;re J. Average Hacker. You&39;ve been told that > http:search.cpan.org is "CPAN"...> Game over. ENOSOURCECODE> All suggestions involving search.cpan.org fall in the category that >..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11009.html Re: The evil tpod.t recap by David Cantrell- July 1, 2008 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:27:17PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:> from David Cantrell> >> If you truly have the Evil Cargo-Culted tpod.t (which has been> >> previously discussed here and elsewhere), it fails spuriously for> >> some users.> >Is this The Evil> >http:drhyde.cvs.sourceforge.netcheckoutdrhydeperlmodulesClass-> >CanBeAtpod.trevision=1.1&content-type=text%2Fplain> Yes. If you (or a co-maintainer) ever accidentally push a release...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11008.html Re: RFC Dual-lifing test.pl by Nicholas Clark- July 1, 2008 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:54:29PM -0400, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:> Jerry D. Hedden wrote:> > From what I can tell, there are well over a dozen dual-lived> > modules that incorporate test.pl into their distributions.> > Rather than continuing this trend, I would like to propose> > turning it into a module and dual-lifing it to CPAN.> > Nicholas Clark wrote:> > Why are they using it, rather than something built from> > Test::Builder What does it offer..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11007.html Re: Making CPAN ratings easy (was Re: CPAN Ratings and the problem of choice) by Spiros Denaxas- July 1, 2008 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputinggmail.com> wrote:> from Rick Fisk> on Tuesday 01 July 2008 00:09:>>>Number of downloads ->> perhaps this could be compared to various release versions of the>>module to keep it pertinent.>> You can&39;t count the downloads (we don&39;t have any control over or> feedback from the mirrors the way sourceforge does.)>And again, I am not sure how that would help in any way since ingeneral..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11006.html The Definitive CPANTs Summary by Ovid- July 1, 2008 He&39;s what I saw in the thread.1. CPANTs was not only fun, but it was (and is) helpful.2. "Non-kwalitee" metrics crept in.3. Some people are upset about gaming.4. Some people love gaming.5. Many people can reasonably disagree on what "value" means.Too many people (including me!) forget to guard their tone (it&39;s a nasty habit I have). That&39;s why I stopped reading this thread. I don&39;t want to see that.To Thomas and everyone else (I don&39;t know the...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11005.html |