new category?

Oh, I dunno... I think a module might be very appropriate.
And you can include with the module some scripts which use
it in a canonical way.

I agree that a module would be both feasible and useful.

Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar@sri.net) ---------------- Senior Software Architect *

<complaint>
However, it seems that getting a module registered is almost
impossible. I've been asking for registration of a particular module
for several months now, and I either get no answer at all, or a reply
from some of the modules moderators saying that it would be a good
idea -- and then nothing happens.
</complaint>

-- Johan

Yupp, I know, something's happening again these days... but:

"About PAUSE" also known as CPAN/modules/04pause.html says:

<p>And please do consult these archive before you post a module proposal.
The fulltext search capabilities of the archive should help you to
find similar suggestions and contact addresses. modules@perl.org is
low volume, so your search in the archive is quite targetted. The
module list maintainers themselves are mostly lurkers. You need not
^^^^^^^^^^^^
wait for a response. Generally a lack of response can be taken as
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
acceptance of the module name being proposed. Note by KS: If you want
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
a quick response, be sure to ask if anybody actually reads the list.
This is guaranteed to produce at least ten responses in rapid
suggestion (none of which will respond to your proposal).</p>

[Quoting Andreas J. Koenig, on October 22 2000, 17:08, in "Re: new category?"]
It still doesn't show up on my PAUSE 'Edit Module Metadata' page.

-- Johan

Your mail is dated 17:15 and it was added 17:17. Darn, should have
sent my mail later:-)

Sorry Johan,
Regards,

Johan,

Unfortunately, module registration is still a manual process that
can only be done by one or two of us. We're working on improving things.

- Kurt

Ed,

How about conversions? or mimic the words in CPAN "Convert"?

Many of our conversions are in CPAN like the Convert::IBM390 module but many
of us create interesting utilities using them. I just wrote on generalized
conversion for EBCDIC which could be used as blueprint for others doing the
same work.

Sincerely,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Beroset
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:57 PM
To: scripts@perl.org
Subject: new category?


I'm working on some embedded systems tools in Perl which will allow
conversion of files among the various forms of binary file formats (i.e.
Motorola hex, Intel hex, pure binary, etc.) but there doesn't yet seem to
be an appropriate category for these and it doesn't seem like the sort of
thing that would usefully be put in a module. Should there be a category
like "Utility" with perhaps a subcategory "Programming"?

Ed