May 2003

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rfc: CPAN and its clients to provide external dependencies versioning support

A growing number of CPAN modules which provide interfaces to external (mostly C) libraries/projects encounter a problem, when the underlying interface goes through major changes, which doesn't ...

Stas Bekman
May 6, 2003 at 6:05 am
May 8, 2003 at 4:22 pm
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UDPM name space finalization

Ok I've decided on the following name space: Unix::Dialog - meta module Unix::Dialog::ASCII - native mode Unix::Dialog::Dialog - console (preferred) Unix::Dialog::Whiptail - console ...

Kevin C. Krinke
May 29, 2003 at 2:28 am
Jun 4, 2003 at 12:22 pm
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Re: Fwd: Paper:: top level namespace - your comments requested

Hi Jay, I agree rather reluctantly that it shouldn't be in Business::, because paper isn't just a business thing. On the other hand, I think Paper:: is too specific. On the gripping hand, I can't ...

Simon Cozens
May 11, 2003 at 9:17 pm
Jun 3, 2003 at 9:28 pm
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RFC: Business::Form:: namespace

Been doing some label printing lately - including for upcoming YAPC::Canada (www.yapc.ca) - and though I could turn up the notch by collating the label form specifications into a handy dandy module ...

Jay Lawrence
May 5, 2003 at 12:58 am
May 6, 2003 at 1:24 am
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UDPM namespace

I've brought this up once before when I first released UDPM to CPAN and it's getting close to 1.00 at which time I'm planning a name change so now is the time to help me out by simply suggesting a ...

Kevin C. Krinke
May 9, 2003 at 9:08 pm
May 12, 2003 at 1:21 pm
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Filesys::DiskFree

Fellow Module Authors, I've looked through the available disk-free modules, for an OS-neutral one (at least, Solaris, Linux & FreeBSD to start...), and been disappointed with the outcome. ...

Martyn J. Pearce
May 30, 2003 at 3:03 pm
Jun 6, 2003 at 8:28 am
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RFC - Sub::ParamObject

Parameter Objects (See "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler). You can download the module from ...

Curtis Poe
May 14, 2003 at 5:49 pm
May 15, 2003 at 4:22 pm
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RFC: Net::LDAP::Simple (or another name)

Hello * I have this module ready to upload to CPAN and I'd like to have some opinions about that. Net::LDAP::Simple (or whatever we'll call it) is a subclass of Net::LDAP that simplifies working with ...

Marco Marongiu
May 2, 2003 at 4:58 pm
May 6, 2003 at 4:20 pm
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Math::NearestNeighbour - need a better name

I need a better name for this module. I don't like Math::NearestNeighbour, partly because of the "neighbour"/"neighbor" spelling problem. What it does is, given a set of points, work out the distance ...

Kate L Pugh
May 26, 2003 at 10:52 pm
May 28, 2003 at 12:03 am
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Stupid Questions

If I don't ask, who will? 1. How do I set up a CPAN bundle? Pointers, tips, etc. welcome...thanks! --hsm

Hugh S. Myers
May 29, 2003 at 6:29 pm
May 29, 2003 at 6:50 pm
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[RFC] protocol Module

I've worked up a fairly simple module called `protocol' that implements some of the features of the Objective-C idea (and I'm sure it's in some other OO languages as well). It still has some bugs ...

James G Smith
May 19, 2003 at 12:48 am
May 20, 2003 at 12:09 am
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Mappoint API module naming help

Hello, I have a module I want to upload to CPAN, which provides a SOAP interface that simplifies interaction with Microsoft's Mappoint geographic maps web service. The module's intent is similar to ...

Claudio Garcia
May 26, 2003 at 5:43 pm
May 26, 2003 at 5:43 pm
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Net::LDAP::Express (::Simple in the RFCs) published

Hello everybody I have just uploaded Net::LDAP::Express on CPAN; I would like to thank all the people that helped me with their suggestions and opinions. Among them: * submersible_toaster of ...

Marco Marongiu
May 8, 2003 at 12:45 pm
May 8, 2003 at 12:45 pm
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Net::LDAP::Simple: last call before publication

Hello * Since no further reply has come from module-authors, c.l.p.modules and perl-ldap, I'd like to release the module, unless any reasonable opposition will appear on any of mailing lists and ...

Marco Marongiu
May 5, 2003 at 1:47 pm
May 5, 2003 at 1:47 pm