perl.qa...Re: Making CPAN ratings easy (was Re: CPAN Ratings and the problemof choice) by Rick Fisk- July 3, 2008 People use CPAN to solve a particular problem. They don&39;t go looking to download packages merely because they exist or are popular so I don&39;t see a parallel between CPAN and Cnet.The idea of displaying download rates in my view is not to create a popularity contest but to give the consumer an idea of how active is a particular module.Spiros Denaxas wrote:> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputinggmail.com> wrote:> >> from Rick Fisk>> on...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11024.html Re: TAP::Harness patches by Andy Armstrong- July 2, 2008 On 2 Jul 2008, at 21:57, Alex Vandiver wrote:> Heya,> Attached are a number of small patches for TAP::Harness and > associated> packages. I&39;m sending this here, because it&39;s not clear from the> documentation where bugs and patches should be sent. The > Test::Harness> queue cc&39;s all of p5p, so I erred away from using that.>> First, app-prove-rules.patch provides a command-line option to prove> which allows you a small amount of control over the new...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11023.html Re: AndyL reports HARNESS_TIMER broken by Andy Armstrong- July 2, 2008 On 2 Jul 2008, at 21:52, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:> His email is bustified.>> http:rafb.netpvD8hRk81.html>> FWIW, I get the same results.Yeah, it hasn&39;t worked since prove stopped using Test::Harness (it now uses TAP::Harness) so all of 3.xx. Fixing it now.-- Andy Armstrong, Hextenhttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11022.html TAP::Harness patches by Alex Vandiver- July 2, 2008 Heya, Attached are a number of small patches for TAP::Harness and associatedpackages. I&39;m sending this here, because it&39;s not clear from thedocumentation where bugs and patches should be sent. The Test::Harnessqueue cc&39;s all of p5p, so I erred away from using that.First, app-prove-rules.patch provides a command-line option to provewhich allows you a small amount of control over the new scheduler. Thisis fairly important, as the default rule of par => &39;&39; means thatonly...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11021.html AndyL reports HARNESS_TIMER broken by Ricardo SIGNES- July 2, 2008 His email is bustified.http:rafb.netpvD8hRk81.htmlFWIW, I get the same results.-- rjbshttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11020.html Alpha software (was Re: Making CPAN ratings easy) of choice) by Paul Johnson- July 2, 2008 On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:09:06AM -0500, Rick Fisk wrote:> (as a digression, why is Devel::Cover - a module released > over 5 years ago and with several updates still labeled &39;alpha&39; by its > author)To digress further, that one&39;s easy. In fact, the answer is in the docsright after I say that it is alpha software: I consider this software to have an alpha status. By that I mean that I reserve the right to alter the interface in a backwards incompatible.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11019.html Re: RFC Dual-lifing test.pl by Jerry D. Hedden- July 1, 2008 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 entirelyNicholas Clark wrote:> No, it should stay. It intentionally doesn&39;t use packages> internally, and (at least) some other constructions.> (specifically ++. Although a quick skim suggests that>..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11018.html Re: RFC Dual-lifing test.pl by Jerry D. Hedden- July 1, 2008 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 that Test::Builder> derived modules don&39;tJerry D. Hedden wrote:> In my case of dual-lifing...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11017.html Re: RFC Dual-lifing test.pl by Reini Urban- July 1, 2008 Nicholas Clark schrieb:> 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...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11016.html Re: great search.cpan.org ideas by Andy Armstrong- July 1, 2008 On 1 Jul 2008, at 15:57, David Cantrell wrote:>> That&39;s true - but it discourages people from experimenting with new >> UI>> ideas like, say, integrating tagging into s.c.o. It&39;d be great if>> people could download WWW::Search::CPAN::Org, install it locally and>> play with it.>> Fair point. Mind you, I distinctly remember a certain Mr. Armstrong> having fun with Greasemonkey to mess around with search.cpan.org a few> months ago ...Well quite -...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2008/07/msg11015.html |