Ether

• Website: metacpan.org/author/ETHER

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• Commented on Parallel Forking and Process Management
  You might also want to take a look at Parallel::Prefork -- I switched to it on a new project after using Parallel::ForkManager for a few years, and I'm quite happy with it. It is more flexible at handling incoming HUPs...
• Commented on It's time to admit I've failed
  "If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today." - Olin Miller...
• Commented on Is the module list useful?
  David Golden recently patched the PAUSE documentation to give less prominence to module registration and more to PrePAN -- https://github.com/andk/pause/pull/40...
• Commented on Introducing Type::Tiny
  Cool! I think there's a feeling now that a global type registry is a bad idea, or at least has enough drawbacks that it might not always be a good idea -- different modules can stomp on each other by...
• Commented on Introducing Type::Tiny
  I wonder if these will work with Test::Deep::Type?...
• Commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again
  > I occasionally find it useful to have the latest-but-one release off CPAN as well. Sometimes the latest release introduces a bug that I can avoid by using the previous release. Previous releases are still available after deletion via BackPAN...
• Commented on Random thoughts about agile software development
  And now I'm kicking myself because I didn't pitch the P.O.P. talk for YAPC::NA. This is strictly MHO, but please don't let that stop you - submit it anyway! Or, please consider making this a half-length or lightning talk?...
• Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
  > No, I just think you're ... playing to "the crowd" I find it troubling that you are unwilling to accept Joe's opinion at face value, regardless of whether you agree with it or not....
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  How will you monetize this project if it all stays free? I'm worried about you quitting your day job, if you're not already independently wealthy or have a sugar-momma to live off of... :/...
• Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
  Before we start assigning motives to perlmonks, has anyone actually *talked* to them to find out: 1. who created that poll, and 2. whether they intended anything at all (be it malice, humour, or something else), vs. simply unintentionally using...
• Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
  I wonder if anyone is interested in applying for a TPF grant to attend some big conferences in India and evangelize for Perl? It would be great if we could increase the Indian representation (even get a speaker or two?)...
• Commented on Is the module list useful?
  > it doesn't look like I got to the request for Test::LWP::UserAgent. Those expire after awhile so I can't do anything about that now. Well *someone* did, because in my PAUSE permissions list it's listed as "modulelist", rather than "firstcome"....
• Commented on Is the module list useful?
  May I suggest that this ("shut down the module registration list") goes on the discussion agenda for the Lancaster hackathon?...
• Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
  I've also seen a lot of posts on the various Perl groups on LinkedIn from India. They are mostly beginner-level questions, though, so I'd guess that there aren't many Perl programmers there yet with many years of experience, who would...
• Posted Is the module list useful? to Ether

  Is the PAUSE module list (www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html) useful anymore? Do any cpan clients, or other tools, make use of it?

  I've seen many users (via http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules) isubmit their module for registration immediately after upload, so there seems to…

• Commented on Bringing Old Modules Up To Modern Specification
  How many of those dists are the latest releases? Ideally the original authors should fix and re-release.. which many would do if they were informed of the issue. Scripting up an email to send to bug-$dist@rt.cpan.org would be straight-forward....
• Commented on Encouraging bloggers to use the 'extended' feature
  Idea #n: switch to a different blogging back end?...
• Commented on What's wrong with CPAN?
  Your "lack of cooperation" point made me think of another metric that could be used for measuring relative "quality" (discussed frequently as a problem being worked on from many angles): a "cooperation index" can be assigned to an author based...
• Commented on YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester)
  I've also added a few new feature branches -- see http://prepan.org/module/45h12sKczM and https://github.com/karenetheridge/Test-Warnings...
• Commented on YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester)
  In the absence of me finding an 'edit' function, the correct link to the dist is: https://metacpan.org/release/ETHER/Test-Warnings-0.001-TRIAL...
• Posted YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester) to Ether

  A few weeks ago a casual exchange occured on irc... I might as well quote it rather than paraphrase:

• Commented on Don't release experiments to CPAN
  I'm reminded of the fact that one can register a namespace on PAUSE (although many people do not bother to register anything -- after all, what is the benefit currently?), and it has various categories such as "stable", "experimental", etc....
• Commented on The Four Major Problems with CPAN
  @Peter: I suppose this is another example of the original thesis, as my first assumption would be that if parent is in core, that it is intended to be used (and indeed its synopsis recommends that if fields are not...
• Commented on The Four Major Problems with CPAN
  Oh yes, it's also come up a few times that we need a way for a CPAN author to say "I don't want to abandon this dist entirely, but I do need help with it." Yanick has proposed putting this...
• Commented on The Four Major Problems with CPAN
  > File::Spec vs. Path::Class I'd actually argue the answer is now "Path::Tiny", but only people who are glued to irc and/or blogs every day would know this, as it's very, very new. > @ISA vs. base vs. parent (hint: It's...
• Commented on Pod to HTML
  I submitted a patch a while back to fix module links to use metacpan.org, but it was rejected as "too soon" -- https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/pull/36 You can help revive this by speaking up in favour on the pod-people list....
• Commented on YAPC Presentation Recordings
  I mentioned TPF not because I thought it was a large organization (I don't; I realize it's small and volunteer-run) but because I think it has grant money to give out (and there I'm right)....
• Commented on YAPC Presentation Recordings
  If someone were to request a grant to set up something on perl.org for hosting presentations from YAPC and other conferences (as well as ensuring that high-quality recordings were made), I'd support that in a red-hot minute. This dovetails nicely...
• Commented on Testing is a Feature of Your Service
  When testing an HTTP client, what you want to mock is the HTTP server itself. You might find this module of interest: http://metacpan.org/module/Test::LWP::UserAgent...
• Commented on I am sad
  I don't see anyone painting Perl6, much less Perl6 *developers*, as the enemy. It's simply unfortunate that the Perl6 *name* causes confusion among the uninformed, and if Perl6 cannot/will not be renamed/numbered, then Perl5 should do the changing....

Comment Threads

• Toby Inkster commented on Introducing Type::Tiny

  I've had a quick try, and yes, it seems to.

  The only major Moose-has-this feature missing from Type::Tiny is that Type::Tiny doesn't have a type registry, which means there's no global mechanism for looking up a type constraint from its name.

  (Not that Test::Deep::Type attempts to look up types by name anyway!)

• Steven Haryanto commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again

  Since old releases are preserved by BackPAN, I tend to keep only the latest releases in my CPAN directory. The reason for that is... there is an existing script/module to do that sort of cleanup for me: WWW::PAUSE::CleanUpHomeDir. I just use the script provided in the Synopsis with slight modification:

  https://github.com/sharyanto/scripts/blob/master/cleanup-pause-homedir

• Toby Inkster commented on Introducing Type::Tiny

  Type::Tiny constraints are immutable, but coercions are not.

  There is an implementation of immutable coercions in the repo, but it didn't land until after the 0.001 "feature freeze". First stable release with immutable coercions is likely to be 0.004, but the 0.003_01 and 0.003_02 releases on CPAN already have it. Even once this is in place coercions are mutable by default - you need to call $type->coercion->freeze to freeze them; however freeze is automatically called when certain events occur, such as inflating a Type::Tiny object to a Moose::Meta::TypeCon…

• P/PW/PWBENNETT commented on Introducing Type::Tiny

  All my +1s. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

• superpulse.x commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  I mostly agree with @kiran on the situation with Perl in India. I feel that its important to find ways for developers in India to be more social and get them to contribute