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  • Hi Ron, Thanks for your answer! It suddenly occurred to me that no more than a few modules providing exact statistics are needed. Thus the rest would some kind of space/time/precision tradeoff. So I ...
    Konstantin S. UvarinKonstantin S. Uvarin
    Jun 19, 2013 at 11:37 am
    Jun 19, 2013 at 11:37 am
  • Hi Konstantin, first of all note that <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="af00c705b5c0f3c0993a48d9b7f8b64b" modules@perl.org</span is the wrong address for this message. <span ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Jun 17, 2013 at 12:16 pm
    Jun 17, 2013 at 12:16 pm
  • Hello, I was tried to install my own module (Dist::Zilla-based, more than a year old) on brand new 5.18.0 with all recent modules. CPAN shell (CPAN.pm 2.0) refused to build it, complaining about ...
    Serguei TrouchelleSerguei Trouchelle
    Jun 9, 2013 at 5:27 am
    Jun 9, 2013 at 8:58 am
  • Hello, I am trying to contact Amir Karger (AKARGER), author of the Games::Cards module on CPAN.I have emailed the two email addresses I have located and also posted on PerlMonks ( ...
    Lance WicksLance Wicks
    Jun 7, 2013 at 5:21 pm
    Jun 11, 2013 at 9:17 am
  • I'm currently writing a module to wrap a web service, done asynchronously using IO::Async. Basic summary is a bunch of methods that prepare a request, send it using Net::Async::HTTP, then yields a ...
    Paul "LeoNerd" EvansPaul "LeoNerd" Evans
    May 23, 2013 at 9:12 pm
    Jun 9, 2013 at 3:09 am
  • Hi, I am the current maintainer of the module Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate I got a bug report https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85463 requesting to remove the old version of the ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    May 23, 2013 at 11:37 am
    May 23, 2013 at 11:37 am
  • Hi, with the release of 5.18 some modules might stop working 100%. Please take a look at the call of David Oswald and, please update your module to make it work on 5.18 as well ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    May 23, 2013 at 6:06 am
    May 23, 2013 at 6:50 am
  • In the thread at https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115908 there's a list of modules that were known to not be ready for Perl 5.18. Some of them have been fixed, and some haven't. To ...
    David OswaldDavid Oswald
    May 21, 2013 at 1:06 am
    May 21, 2013 at 1:06 am
  • I have a need to make various web service API calls based on certain criteria. Each API call has different JSON data specifications as well. For instance: my ($response, $data, $webservice); if ($x ...
    Steve DickinsonSteve Dickinson
    May 17, 2013 at 3:25 am
    May 17, 2013 at 9:17 am
  • I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? The module Net::SMTP::TLS was last released in 2006 by ...
    Matt SimersonMatt Simerson
    May 11, 2013 at 4:26 am
    May 12, 2013 at 11:06 pm
  • Hi coleagues! I have a question about CPAN installation progress. I have recently upload a new module to CPAN (Molevol::Complex). It is a part of my work in Molecular Evolution of Protein Complexes ...
    Héctor Valverde ParejaHéctor Valverde Pareja
    May 3, 2013 at 9:42 am
    May 4, 2013 at 5:33 pm
  • I am packing up some code I wrote for another project as a perl module. The code is a DMARC implementation in perl, so the obvious name seems to be: Mail::DMARC I am coordinating with Davide ...
    Matt SimersonMatt Simerson
    Apr 28, 2013 at 4:42 pm
    May 2, 2013 at 8:42 am
  • Hi, I'm getting ready to upload my first module to CPAN. I'd like to use the namespace VM::Dreamer. It's a framework to define and operate arbitrary 1-operand virtual machines (kind of like a ...
    William StevensonWilliam Stevenson
    Apr 26, 2013 at 3:32 am
    Apr 26, 2013 at 8:17 am
  • Hi all. After being away from perl for a few years, I've returned to module development and would like to canvas the crowd's general opinions on version control. Is there a common VCS & server used ...
    Stephen PattersonStephen Patterson
    Apr 13, 2013 at 9:35 am
    Apr 13, 2013 at 9:50 am
  • Hello all; first post EVER, so forgive me if I've already violated some SOPs here. I made a tl;dr style post on this same topic at ...
    Joshua TurcotteJoshua Turcotte
    Apr 8, 2013 at 3:40 pm
    Apr 8, 2013 at 3:40 pm
  • Hi, Does anyone know Albert Michauer (AMICHAUER) or have contact details for him, other than the ones you can find on CPAN, PAUSE etc? He is the author of 3 modules on CPAN, including namespace. I've ...
    Neil BowersNeil Bowers
    Mar 19, 2013 at 8:46 am
    Mar 19, 2013 at 8:46 am
  • I'm starting an OAuth 2.0 client library. http://play-perl.org/quest/5127fd0be8e8478c0500002d And I'm trying to figure out a name for the module. I just read ...
    Alexander KarelasAlexander Karelas
    Mar 16, 2013 at 10:38 am
    Mar 16, 2013 at 3:48 pm
  • Is this a limitation or a unfixed bug? I noticed the html version on cpan of my module looked poopy... it was all broken funny and things that lined up on a terminal didn't (C<mea culpa ). But I also ...
    Linda WLinda W
    Mar 7, 2013 at 9:25 pm
    Mar 19, 2013 at 7:14 pm
  • I developed a few tests for a module I was trying to get on to CPAN. They worked when I ran them in the 't' directory. But under the test harness, they failed... it couldn't find the module files ...
    Linda WLinda W
    Mar 1, 2013 at 8:58 am
    Mar 2, 2013 at 8:36 am
  • Tatsuhiko Miyagawa writes: http://weblog.bulknews.net/post/44251476706/stop-shipping-mymeta-to-cpan I add: Maybe there should be a tool sending e-mails to module authors when they do something like ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    Mar 1, 2013 at 5:21 am
    Mar 2, 2013 at 9:04 am
  • I just uploaded this to cpan, but I've had it around for a while in one form or another. The purpose is to help large projects with lots of .pm files and lots of .xs files, or lots of .pm with ...
    Rubin CharnsRubin Charns
    Feb 28, 2013 at 1:39 pm
    Feb 28, 2013 at 1:39 pm
  • Hi there, How do I assert the Perl version I want with Dist::Zilla? I can't find it in http://dzil.org/tutorial/ and when I tried the MinimumPerl plugin, it said my minimum version is 5.12 when I ...
    OvidOvid
    Feb 23, 2013 at 2:57 pm
    Feb 26, 2013 at 3:56 pm
  • Per https://github.com/iamthechad/perl-win32-systeminfo/issues/1 Win32::SystemInfo needs a maintainer who can run Win32 code and make new CPAN releases. Any volunteers?
    Bulk88Bulk88
    Feb 14, 2013 at 7:42 pm
    Feb 14, 2013 at 7:42 pm
  • Hi All, I just went to submit a bug for DBD::mysql, then noticed the long list of open bugs: https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=DBD-mysql Reading the POD showed that the developers use their ...
    LyleLyle
    Feb 5, 2013 at 3:01 am
    Feb 5, 2013 at 1:18 pm
  • Could you please grant co-maintenance on Math::Brent for which I am currently the owner to John M. Gamble <<span class="m_body_email_addr" title="43e2f76f108cb9f61a463e46fb5eab3b" ...
    John WilliamsJohn Williams
    Jan 30, 2013 at 11:59 am
    Jan 30, 2013 at 4:42 pm
  • Hi all, I've upload development version of LemonLDAP::NG libraries, but they are displayed as unauthorizated release even if modules are registered by me. Any idea ? Cheers, Xavier
    XavierXavier
    Jan 26, 2013 at 7:03 am
    Jan 26, 2013 at 6:56 pm
  • Hi Shirl (and the esteemed module-authors mailing list), We've talked a little in private about https://metacpan.org/release/Freecell-App after this post to fc-solve-discuss - ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Jan 25, 2013 at 12:31 am
    Jan 26, 2013 at 8:16 am
  • Hello everyone, My first time on this list. I have a question about naming a module. It's an app for converting MRC TBX-Basic. The homepage for the app is ...
    Nathan GlennNathan Glenn
    Jan 18, 2013 at 10:13 pm
    Jan 18, 2013 at 11:13 pm
  • We found it very difficult to tweak parts of that framework so we rewrote it (or rather most of it) with the 'single responsibility' principle in mind. We also ported it to Moose and made immutable ...
    Zbigniew ŁukasiakZbigniew Łukasiak
    Jan 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
    Jan 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
  • Hi, those of you who read blogs.perl.org probably already saw my posts, but I guess there are many others on this list who are not reading that site. Recently I checked and only 50% of the CPAN ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    Jan 8, 2013 at 11:15 am
    Jan 8, 2013 at 6:44 pm
  • Hi, I just wanted to update a distribution and ensure that all the modules in a distribution have version number and they are all the same. I guess Dist::Zilla would do that, but this distribution I ...
    Gabor SzaboGabor Szabo
    Jan 8, 2013 at 8:04 am
    Feb 19, 2013 at 3:43 pm
  • Hi, I'd like to provide some module code which converts given data structures (e.g.: output of system commands like "ip addr list", ifconfig, dmidecode and config files e.g. nagios config, ...
    Christian RecktenwaldChristian Recktenwald
    Jan 2, 2013 at 4:00 pm
    Jan 3, 2013 at 11:34 am
  • I'm planning on creating a Postgres module that returns various pieces of information from the Postgres filesystem such as table modification times. It will also be able to do things like get a ...
    Steve DickinsonSteve Dickinson
    Dec 20, 2012 at 5:53 pm
    Dec 20, 2012 at 5:53 pm
  • Hello, I'm writing a small module to apply "lossy" filters to text, to enable better subsequent lossless compression. For example, "Hello, World!" would become "hello, world!" with the "lowercase" ...
    Ben DeutschBen Deutsch
    Dec 19, 2012 at 7:56 pm
    Feb 6, 2013 at 3:42 pm
  • Hi there, We are rewriting AI::Categorizer from scratch - maybe not all of it - only the parts that we need. It was just too difficult to customize it and since this is the third time I encounter ...
    Zbigniew ŁukasiakZbigniew Łukasiak
    Dec 12, 2012 at 1:47 pm
    Dec 12, 2012 at 1:47 pm
  • Dear all, This is the first time I'm writing a Perl module and I would appreciate some advice on naming it. This module will perform conversion from Beta Code characters to Unicode. As the relevant ...
    Dimitrios - Georgios KontopoulosDimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos
    Dec 5, 2012 at 5:17 pm
    Dec 10, 2012 at 6:39 am
  • Hi All. I've released a module, Dist::Surveyor v0.007, and seeing reports from CPAN testers that DB_File doesn't exists. DB_File is not listed in the deps, because, well, it is core ...
    Shmuel FombergShmuel Fomberg
    Nov 22, 2012 at 12:44 pm
    Nov 22, 2012 at 4:55 pm
  • We created a few new modules for working with IP addresses and subnets at MaxMind which we'd like to release. Internally we've been calling them MM::Net::IPAddress and MM::Net::Subnet but obviously ...
    Dave RolskyDave Rolsky
    Nov 12, 2012 at 10:54 pm
    Nov 13, 2012 at 5:39 am
  • Hello module authors, Could your module or project benefit from having someone - fix a specific bug - add a test for a specific feature - improve test coverage by 5% - write a tutorial - create a ...
    Paul JohnsonPaul Johnson
    Nov 6, 2012 at 11:48 pm
    Nov 6, 2012 at 11:48 pm
  • Hi All. Can anyone tell me, when a cpan smoker / tester is trying to test a module but fails to install a dependency, what happens? Who should I convince to make such a failure similar to test fail? ...
    Shmuel FombergShmuel Fomberg
    Nov 5, 2012 at 7:54 am
    Nov 11, 2012 at 9:51 pm
  • Dear CPAN heros, I'm about to submit a module which offers a binding to OSX's ApplicationServices & Foundation frameworks to allow a Perl based mouse event generation (clicking, dragging, scroll ...
    Michael StraßburgerMichael Straßburger
    Nov 1, 2012 at 4:02 am
    Nov 2, 2012 at 9:00 am
  • Hi, How to apply new version for uploaded module? PAUSE indexer status OK. Why my <Edit Module Metadata on PAUSE is empty? Always <Register Namespace for new versions? Thanks. --- Regards, Mikhail ...
    Mikhail CheMikhail Che
    Oct 29, 2012 at 7:42 am
    Oct 30, 2012 at 2:54 am
  • Hi Andy, please fix Template-Plugin-Autoformat . I'm affected by this bug - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75335 - on Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron, and it is blocking the building of ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Oct 26, 2012 at 2:07 pm
    Oct 26, 2012 at 2:34 pm
  • I spent a couple of hours updating List::MoreUtils to fix RT#75727, RT#78527, and RT#76749. I've placed the work in a public Github repository here: https://github.com/daoswald/List-MoreUtils The ...
    David OswaldDavid Oswald
    Oct 24, 2012 at 8:19 am
    Oct 24, 2012 at 8:50 am
  • Hello, I recently had to write an application which handled payments to PayPal and PagSeguro (a Brazilian company). Not only to submit payments, but also to query and automatically change status when ...
    André WalkerAndré Walker
    Oct 13, 2012 at 11:53 pm
    Oct 21, 2012 at 7:08 pm
  • Hi Neil, and CPAN admins, I would like to maintain the Term-Shell CPAN distribution - https://metacpan.org/release/Term-Shell . It wasn't maintained since February 2007 (over 5 years ago), there are ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Oct 13, 2012 at 7:07 pm
    Oct 13, 2012 at 8:22 pm
  • I've created an interface to PAUSE's 06perms.txt file, which currently contains two classes: PAUSE::PermissionsFile Module::Permissions Here's example usage: use PAUSE::PermissionsFile; $pp = ...
    Neil BowersNeil Bowers
    Oct 12, 2012 at 8:54 am
    Oct 15, 2012 at 12:30 pm
  • Hi all, On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:20:25 +0200 Shlomi Fish wrote: Any news? Can anyone tend to this problem? I have not heard from you back. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ...
    Shlomi FishShlomi Fish
    Oct 12, 2012 at 8:42 am
    Oct 23, 2012 at 11:24 am
  • My previous message appears to have gone to the bit bucket (no sign of it in almost 24 hours; my apologies if this pops up as a repost). My "yet another text template module" has these as some major ...
    Brian KatzungBrian Katzung
    Oct 9, 2012 at 7:08 pm
    Nov 15, 2012 at 8:46 am
  • ... or else we'll all have to live with my name for it. :-) I tried posting on comp.lang.perl.modules (I forgot which how-to doc suggested it) when naming Data::XHash and got zero feedback. Since the ...
    Brian KatzungBrian Katzung
    Oct 8, 2012 at 9:03 pm
    Oct 17, 2012 at 8:17 pm
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