September 2008

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Module::Build 0.30 is released

Hi all, After much tireless work by Eric Wilhelm and lots of feedback from patient & nonpatient users alike, I'm pleased to announce that version 0.30 of Module::Build is now on CPAN. This is the ...

Ken Williams
Sep 26, 2008 at 3:01 am
Oct 6, 2008 at 2:44 am
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Regulating Module Authorship

Hello everyone. I've been hacking away various unrelated modules (RTSP::Lite, Net::SMTP::TLS, for example) and occasionally I send the original author an email or a bug report to fix whatever problem ...

Sawyer X
Sep 21, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:41 am
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The problem with auto-installing dependencies

Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same high quality as others. I feel it is very important to vet each and every module that I install. But with the auto-install ...

Bill Ward
Sep 30, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Oct 2, 2008 at 4:00 am
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Carp::nosigdie - needs a better name

Hi all, I found myself wanting to check whether some code had a $SIG{__DIE__} in it and realized I still had this silly module in my experiments directory. This throws an error whenever a ...

Eric Wilhelm
Sep 3, 2008 at 7:29 am
Jan 8, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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world writable directories

Hi All. I uploaded a module to CPAN, and got a surprising email, saying that PAUSE failed to index my module, because it had world writable directories. Now, I understand the concern. My question is, ...

Shmuel Fomberg
Sep 25, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Sep 28, 2008 at 6:58 pm
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IO::Prompt suggestion

I'm not sure if this is the place, so correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just guessing this mailing list is more frequently read by those I think are involved, so apologizes if this isn't the place.. I ...

Sawyer x
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:52 am
Sep 10, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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CPAN Index on ModPerl::MethodLookup

Dear all, Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I found a strange recorded in 02packages.details.txt.gz: imacat@rinse ~ % gunzip -c 02packages.details.txt.gz | grep ModPerl::MethodLookup ...

Imacat
Sep 4, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Sep 8, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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Embedding Module?

Hi All. I have a module, STAFService, that is not actually a module - it's an embedding plugin of Perl inside other program. (STAF) The output of the build process is a dll / so, that STAF loads and ...

Shmuel Fomberg
Sep 28, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Sep 28, 2008 at 11:03 pm
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Introducing Math::GSL 0.12 and some questions/rants

Howdy folks, I have been lurking here for quite a while and I figured it was time that I ask some questions that have been bouncing around my head. This summer I had the pleasure of being part of the ...

Jonathan Leto
Sep 14, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Sep 16, 2008 at 4:24 am
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Looking for Graciliano Monteiro Passos (GMPASSOS)

Hi, I am looking for Graciliano Monteiro Passos (GMPASSOS) author of 25 or so Perl Modules on CPAN. I have tried to send him an email at his CPAN address and even tried an email address that I found ...

Christopher Brown
Sep 10, 2008 at 12:28 am
Sep 10, 2008 at 11:42 pm
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Suppressing modules from indexing

Hi, I have a dist with a plethora of modules (in directory lib) that are specific to the application and therefore need not be indexed. Actually, it is undesired to have them indexed. I tried to put ...

Johan Vromans
Sep 9, 2008 at 10:21 am
Sep 9, 2008 at 10:59 am
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Adding library inside cpan module

Hi All. I have this module on CPAN, Data::ParseBinary. now I want to add a library of pre-prepared format. For example, a parser/builder for BMP files. The question is, how do I call it? some options ...

Shmuel Fomberg
Sep 3, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Sep 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace

Hi all! I'm trying to detect Backspace input using Curses/Ncurses. So I have the following Perl script that isolates the problem I'm having: {{{{{{{{{{ #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use ...

Shlomi Fish
Sep 1, 2008 at 8:56 am
Sep 1, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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EXTRA_META is no more!

Just giving notice to those who peeked inside MakeMaker's Makefile.PL and used the never documented EXTRA_META, it's gone from the latest release. The new META_MERGE and META_ADD should be used ...

Michael G Schwern
Sep 30, 2008 at 2:25 am
Sep 30, 2008 at 2:25 am
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Desperately seeking Rob Brown (BBB)

Hi guys, I'm desperately seeking Rob Brown (aka BBB on CPAN). We're in the final stages of removing all code in Fedora which is solely licensed under the old Artistic 1.0 license, and we need to talk ...

Spotrh
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Sep 10, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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use Test::More no_plan => $plan;

In the developer release of Test::Simple, Test::Builder has been altered to die if you have any arguments after 'no_plan'. This means that some previously passing tests will fail. In fact, there are ...

Ovid
Sep 8, 2008 at 10:49 am
Sep 8, 2008 at 10:49 am
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World-writable files in CPAN Distributions

Hi all, I'm smoke-testing the CPAN distributions using CPAN::YACSmoke, in an under-privileged user. Now I'm using Mandriva Cooker and have msec running, and, as a result, am getting warnings that I ...

Shlomi Fish
Sep 6, 2008 at 10:01 am
Sep 6, 2008 at 10:01 am