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1) Joshua Hoblitt Re: git?

+1 vote

I agree with Craig but why weren't these guys directed to the TPF proper? It seems like cooperative...

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:09:27PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> > the folks at github contacted me and came on #p5p to say that
> > they really, really want Perl and are more than willing to help out in any way
> > they can.  I've put them in touch with Leon, git TODO czar, so we'll see what
> > happens.
> 
> I could envision some good mutual publicity from making them an
> "official mirror" or similar.  I don't see any advantages to the Perl
> community that would come from making them own the authoritative
> repository.  People have already invested quite a bit of effort into
> setting things up under perl.org, including collecting ssh keys for
> committers, creating experimental rsync mirrors, etc.  Changing
> hosting providers at this point would probably derail or delay a
> process that is already a bit starved for time and talent.
> 
> Or did I misunderstand the meaning of "really want Perl"?

I agree with Craig but why weren't these guys directed to the TPF proper?  It
seems like cooperative agreements should fall under that umbrella and who
knows, perhaps someone would want to sweeten the pot enough to make it worth
doing...

-J

2) Joshua Hoblitt Re: Deprecating Time::Local?

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This is perhaps not very constructive but Time::{Bug name} is a terrible module name to get wed to...

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This is perhaps not very constructive but Time::{Bug name} is a terrible module name to get wed to for the long haul. How about Time::Long, Time::Extended, Time::Simple, Time::Rational, Time::Time, Time::Local2, Time::Local::Simple, etc.?

-J

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On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:36:32PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> >>I started working
> >>on this and I had a lot of test failures. Maybe it was just brain farts
> >>on my part.
> >>
> >>Part of the problem is that you end up with a very confusing API, where
> >>passing in the year as -1000 turns it into -2900. That's why I decided
> >>to give up. The API is just too dumb to live.
> >
> >That's the normal, insane, behavior of localtime/timelocal. If we've lived
> >with it this long we can live with it a little longer. If we deprecate
> >Time::Local we have to deprecate localtime().
> >
> >I was sorely tempted to fix it in Time::y2038 but I resisted else it's not
> >a
> >drop-in replacement and loses its utility. The localtime() interface is so
> >broken that there's no point in just fixing one part.
>
> The Time::y2038 version is consistent though. You give it ($year - 1900)
> for all cases. Time::Local is bizarre and confusing, and even worse it's
> bizarre case changes once per year!
>
> >Sadly Time::gmtime() and Time::localtime() didn't fix this. But
> >Time::Piece
> >did! Maybe that could override timelocal() and timegm(), too?
>
> Or just use DateTime, which always gives you a proper year.
>
>
> -dave
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3) Joshua Hoblitt Re: git and $Id$ (was Re: todo list for moving to git)

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It's nice to have the occasional reminder of what a pleasant list p5p is. ;) -J

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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:13:43PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> If what you're really gunning for is $Id$ to identify where a file came from,
> git doesn't have it and it appears to be a particularly contentious issue
> which involves a lot of "THAT'S BROKEN!" and "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!".  Oh god do I
> feel sorry for this guy:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750

It's nice to have the occasional reminder of what a pleasant list p5p is. ;)

-J

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4) Joshua Hoblitt Is posix_fallocate() a possible candidate for POSIX.pm inclusion?

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Hi Folks, Is it reasonable to add [posix_]fallocate to POSIX.pm or is niche enough that it needs to...

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Hi Folks,

Is it reasonable to add [posix_]fallocate to POSIX.pm or is niche enough
that it needs to be in it's own module?  If your not aware of it, this
system call is pretty nifty when handling lots of huge files.  It
potentially lets the filesystem "reserve" continuous blocks so you don't
end up with a fragmenting a new file while writing it out for the first
time.

-J

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5) Joshua Hoblitt perlpodspec vs. Pod::Perldoc vs. Pod::Parser

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I've been working on a Pod processor (likely to be called Pod::Tidy) and I've run across what I at...

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I've been working on a Pod processor (likely to be called Pod::Tidy) and
I've run across what I at first thought might be a bug in Pod::Parser.
After re-reading perlpodspec I now suspect I've found a quirk in
Pod::Perldoc.

Consider the following example, Pod::Parser treats the lines with bar
and baz in them as part of the same "Ordinary paragraph".  Pod::Perldoc
(well, perldoc) treats them as two separate paragraphs.  With baz being
in a separate "Verbatim paragraph".

--
=head1 foo

bar
    baz

=cut
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I think that Pod::Parser is probably the one properly following the
spec..  Can anyone help confirm or clarify what the correct behavior
here is?

Cheers,

-J

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