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There is a decent chance that Module::Build will be removed from the core perl distribution in v5.22.0. That decision is being made now on perl5-porters ...
Ricardo Signes
May 24, 2013 at 2:47 pm
May 24, 2013 at 2:47 pm -
tl;dr: non-unique distribution names are annoying and create a security hole on rt.cpan.org. Fixing it may not be trivial. ## Terminology and context ## By "distribution", I generally mean the unique ...
David Golden
Mar 13, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Mar 20, 2013 at 3:13 am -
We have a lot of serious problems because we lack a database of installed distributions, releases and files. There are serious problems with implementing one given A) the limitations of the standard ...
Michael G Schwern
Dec 15, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Jan 4, 2013 at 11:59 pm -
Hi all, As a few of you may already know, I've been working on a new compilation and linking toolkit, called ExtUtils::Builder. It's intended as a replacement for ExtUtils::CBuilder ...
Leon Timmermans
Nov 20, 2012 at 1:11 am
Nov 21, 2012 at 11:21 am -
Hi, long time ago I wanted a ExtUtils::CBuilder successor. Leon started such a one, but it hasn't the features I needed for e.g. Proc::ProcessTable or Net::Radio::Location::SUPL::Test - so I started ...
Jens Rehsack
Nov 18, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Nov 22, 2012 at 12:43 pm -
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Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #78246] Install failure with CPAN.pm: Alert: no Build file available for 'make '
Hi cpan-workers, Can any of you make soup from this report? I have no idea what's going on, specially because «relaunching the install just after now works». I don't even know if this is an issue ...Leon Timmermans
Aug 13, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Aug 13, 2012 at 5:08 pm -
That shall not be done before I made some decisions, like how the install/run process will be done. This early adopter is primarily targeted to people who are Perl 5 developers _and_ packagers for ...
Jens Rehsack
Jul 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Jul 13, 2012 at 2:02 pm -
Hi, It looks like cpan.cu.be isn't responding on IPv6: telnet 2001:67c:314::feed:cafe 80 Trying 2001:67c:314::feed:cafe... I also notice that http://mirrors.cpan.org/ says it's fine -- maybe that ...
David Leadbeater
Apr 13, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Apr 13, 2012 at 2:32 pm -
CORBA-IDL on CPAN has package Attributes in one of modules, name similar to core module "attributes". Class-PObject has INTEGER, similar to "integer". They are included into CPAN index and CPAN shell ...
Alexandr Ciornii
Mar 31, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Apr 4, 2012 at 8:02 pm -
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CPAN map
Hi, The CPAN mirrors map http://mirrors.cpan.org/map.html ... can now point to individual mirror sites : http://mirrors.cpan.org/map.html?SITE=cpan.develooper.com ... or countries ...Henk P. Penning
Mar 22, 2012 at 10:38 am
Mar 24, 2012 at 7:39 am -
Hi workers, today (october 26), it is 0x10 years ago that CPAN was announced on comp.lang.perl by Jarkko Hietaniemi : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.announce/msg/fead47b2b9744f85 CPAN ...
Henk P. Penning
Oct 25, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Oct 26, 2011 at 7:46 am -
Hi, to follow-up on myself, the problem hinted at below is still with us. Below is just one example I looked at more closely ; there are many others like it. In the past three weeks there were 14185 ...
Henk P. Penning
Sep 30, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Oct 1, 2011 at 4:45 am -
FYI. Another case of files needing to be purged from PAUSE/CPAN/BackPAN. I'm not sure whether there should be a process for confirming "takedowns" or not. -- David ---------- Forwarded message ...
David Golden
Sep 16, 2011 at 10:42 am
Sep 16, 2011 at 10:42 am -
Hi, I'm using the git version of the rrr-client, at d8b56c9593924d4371ed747294a5c50e303ab187 from git://repo.or.cz/rersyncrecent.git The worker process that is spawned every couple of seconds uses ...
Pedro Melo
Sep 2, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Sep 13, 2011 at 7:16 pm -
Having built the dist, and got several users on varying platforms to install it and try building assorted pure perl and XS modules (including the whole of Task::Kensho), and having re-verified the ...
Matt S Trout
Aug 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Aug 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm -
tl;dr: 6.58 can completely break, please test 6.58_01 to ensure that I didn't screw anything else up fixing it, I'll be shipping 6.59 at 1300 UTC if nobody reports any regressions from 6.58. EUMM ...
Matt S Trout
Aug 5, 2011 at 12:21 am
Aug 5, 2011 at 12:21 am -
Hi people from cpan ! I need a help with this problem, I upload a module (Estante-Paypal) to pause, but I make a big mistake.. It's a code of my work. Are there anyway do remove from search.cpan.org ...
Thiago Rondon
Jul 27, 2011 at 6:28 am
Jul 27, 2011 at 6:28 am -
Hi cpan-workers, I've built a new "instant mirroring" client 'iim' ; see http://people.cs.uu.nl/henkp/iim/ for source, documetation etc, o iim starts mirroring CPAN right after start-up ; o if the ...
Henk P. Penning
Jun 16, 2011 at 8:03 am
Jun 16, 2011 at 7:53 pm -
Hi, I cleaned out all the dead links from the ports page, which is what we went live with, but the content is WAY out of date, it is also not in a easy to review format and a lot of it is just not ...
Leo Lapworth
Mar 26, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Mar 27, 2011 at 10:57 am -
Hi everyone, CPAN got its first big update in a while: http://log.perl.org/2011/03/big-cpanorg-update.html - ask -- http://log.perl.org/ - http://askask.com/
Ask Bjørn Hansen
Mar 20, 2011 at 9:12 am
Mar 20, 2011 at 9:12 am -
Hi everyone, Monday afternoon I swapped the temporary CPAN master mirror for the new server. The testing of the 'rrr' stuff is progressing; there are some more bits about how to test it on the wiki ...
Ask Bjørn Hansen
Mar 15, 2011 at 10:53 am
Mar 15, 2011 at 10:53 am -
Hello, rt.cpan.org uses 02packages.details.txt and other files from mirrors to create required objects in RT. Lately a few authors reported that queues are not created for thier distributions, for ...
Ruslan Zakirov
Mar 10, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Mar 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm -
Hi everyone, Currently about 450 mirrors are mirroring from FUnet; creating a huge load on their system. While there are lots of CPAN mirrors that offer rsync, everyone of course wants to mirror from ...
Ask Bjørn Hansen
Mar 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Mar 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm -
The list of mirrors is now available in JSON format: http://log.perl.org/2011/02/cpan-mirrors-list-now-also-in-json-format.html - ask -- Ask Bjørn Hansen, http://askask.com/
Ask Bjørn Hansen
Feb 28, 2011 at 6:09 am
Feb 28, 2011 at 6:09 am -
Hi, Is http://www.cpan.org/ports/ being maintained by anyone? http://www.cpan.org/ports/#openbsd - "OpenBSD 2.7 ships with Perl 5.6." The link is broken and OpenBSD 4.8 actually has version 5.10.1. ...
Leo Lapworth
Feb 17, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Feb 25, 2011 at 4:06 pm -
I've cloned the cpanpm repo and played with CPAN::Mirrors to make it a bit more useful for things outside of CPAN.pm. Most of its use in CPAN.pm is to support urllist in CPAN::FirstTime, but I want ...
Brian d foy
Feb 8, 2011 at 6:55 am
May 10, 2011 at 5:00 am -
I want to experiment with CPAN.pm and authenticating proxies. Can anyone give me access to a proxy server? Thanks, David
David Golden
Nov 3, 2010 at 3:12 am
Nov 3, 2010 at 9:53 pm -
Hi All, I have been trying to get Pause ID but seems like either the request is getting rejected or something is wrong in the way I am raising the request. I have applied twice in past. EG: ...
Parag Kalra
Oct 3, 2010 at 3:53 am
Oct 4, 2010 at 6:15 pm -
Hi everyone, Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) is working on the www.cpan.org website in the same way he skinned many of the perl.org websites. He's a bit shy so he asked that I introduce him since I dumped ...
Brian d foy
Sep 26, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Sep 27, 2010 at 6:02 pm -
It has become the time for me to admit to what has probably been pretty obvious for anyone else already for some time - I do not have the time to give CPAN the attention it deserves. Time to pass the ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Sep 26, 2010 at 11:49 am
Oct 4, 2010 at 3:56 pm -
I've gone ahead and patched up a copy of the spec to resolve the version issues I've been going on about (David, I wouldn't expect you to do the work after you've just did all the work to mint the ...
Michael G Schwern
Apr 21, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Apr 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm -
http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.101091/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Comparing_Version_Numbers is an insufficient description about how to compare version numbers. The spec should not depend on ...
Michael G Schwern
Apr 19, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Apr 20, 2010 at 12:27 am -
Elliot just alerted me to this bit of the v2 spec. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.101091/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Version_Formats Dotted-integer versions "All components after the first ...
Michael G Schwern
Apr 19, 2010 at 11:59 am
Apr 21, 2010 at 12:42 pm -
Dear CPAN authors: It is with great pleasure that we present you with the release of the CPAN Meta Spec version 2. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPAN::Meta::Spec This document specifies the format ...
David Golden
Apr 19, 2010 at 10:55 am
Apr 19, 2010 at 10:55 am -
# from David Nicol (on module-authors) on Sunday 18 April 2010 13:14: This prompted me to dust off an old unfinished thread: It seems like there should be some way to say e.g. "install bin/ack" or ...
Eric Wilhelm
Apr 19, 2010 at 6:15 am
Apr 20, 2010 at 6:05 pm -
I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree. I believe that's a short-sighted viewpoint that has some value in the short term but is likely to lead us to make decisions ...
Tim Bunce
Apr 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Apr 16, 2010 at 1:56 am -
I'm writing up my notes from an extensive IRC conversation with Jesse Vincent. I offered to post it to cpan-workers for feedback. He and I agree that there are significant benefits to the community ...
David Golden
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Apr 16, 2010 at 6:57 am -
Umm, yes. That needs fixing. For distributions that contain unauthorised modules I think the cpan-git-mirror code should take the 'strict' approach: ignore the distro until the permissions have been ...
Tim Bunce
Apr 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Apr 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm -
Random thoughts... * If you squint a little you can view git as a database with excellent replication support. * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. * For backwards compatibility a ...
Tim Bunce
Apr 1, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Apr 2, 2010 at 3:08 pm -
so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a database instead of a file system?
David Nicol
Apr 1, 2010 at 4:39 am
Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 pm -
Currently on PAUSE you have to explicitly delete old uploads. How about changing it so you have to explicitly KEEP old uploads that appear to have been superseded? PAUSE already has a mechanism to ...
Tim Bunce
Mar 25, 2010 at 11:12 am
Mar 31, 2010 at 11:44 am -
CPAN prefers to use File::HomeDir to determine it own directory, so far that has been `$HOME/.cpan`. F::H 0.90 adds XDG support, accordingly the directory moved to a different location, except for ...
Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯
Feb 17, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Apr 16, 2010 at 3:01 pm -
Can someone remind me of the regex to match "legal" distribution names? I just had a bug reported for CPANdeps which only showed up when someone pointed it at A/AU/AUTHOR/Foo-Bar-Baz-v1.2.3.tar.gz. ...
David Cantrell
Feb 5, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Feb 6, 2010 at 12:58 pm -
Dear list, Hello to all of you. I am a newbie in cpan and come here to discuss with Geo::IP installation problem through cpan. For awstats Geo-location report I need Geo::IP in my system. This is a ...
J. Bakshi
Feb 2, 2010 at 5:43 am
Feb 2, 2010 at 12:08 pm -
The code that produced the output below is in a branch in my github repo. Very experimental, but perhaps promising. http://pasta.test-smoke.org/199 It's run from a "clean" user with no prior .cpan or ...
David Golden
Jan 25, 2010 at 6:11 am
Jan 25, 2010 at 6:11 am -
Look, what my tar program spits out. I've never seen this before: % tar tzf /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/J/JJ/JJORE/B-Utils-0.10.tar.gz tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' ...
Andreas J. Koenig
Jan 12, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Jan 12, 2010 at 10:05 pm -
Unfortunately, I've again decided to postpone finishing edits to the spec due to a lack of round tuits. I'm busy helping Jesse on bits and pieces for Perl 5.12 and have a sudden crash project to get ...
David Golden
Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Jan 12, 2010 at 1:11 am -
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RFC: PGAN
Fellow CPAN-Works: I've posted a [plan] to implement [PGAN], a CPAN for PostgreSQL extensions. I've tried to closely follow the [CPAN philosophy] to come up with a plan that requires a minimum-work ...David E . Wheeler
Jan 7, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Jan 8, 2010 at 6:04 pm -
We don't have to put the data in any particular format. There's no need to choose any format. We can have them all. With whatever I do, I want to support everything. If the CPAN client says it can ...
Brian d foy
Jan 6, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Jan 7, 2010 at 6:50 pm -
There has been some discussion, but not by anyone in a position to do something about it AFAICT. We did kick around the idea of using something like p6/id/E/EW/EWILHELM/ This would basically mean ...
Eric Wilhelm
Jan 3, 2010 at 3:44 am
Jan 6, 2010 at 4:34 am
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