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• Commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them
  Here's a link so you can view the modules up for adoption without signing in: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/ByMaintainer.html?Name=ADOPTME...
• Commented on githook-perltidy update
  cpanm is itself a single-script CPAN distribution. I think each CPAN distribution needs a main module, but it doesn't need code. So just create a module only containing POD and you should be fine....
• Commented on A milestone for Alien::Base
  I want to wrap a something called AtomicParsley (http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/). Its kinda selfish - I am using it as part of my project to import DVD’s into iTunes, and I want a nice install experience for anyone else who uses my...

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• Astara (aka, Linda Walsh) commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them

  "Sometimes that happens with URLs in sentences": it does. If I'm embedding a link near punctuation, I try to make sure to put a space or such after the URL and then test it. If I'm going through the time to leave a link for users, I _try_ to make sure they can use it.

  Better is increased smarts in the link-in-sentence parsing of the platform you are writing on. It will be hard to get it perfect, but noting that very few URL's end with a period might lend a content parser to break before a period by default, resorting to methods like quoting (by the author) as a last resort.

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• Astara (aka, Linda Walsh) commented on Mark your modules as adoptable if you don't want them

  Postscript: When I first tried to submit the above, I got:

  Comment Submission Error
  Your comment submission failed for the following reaons:
  Your session has expired. Please sign in again to comment.
  Return to the _original entry_.

  I thought, huh? Tried to hit BACK and got:
  This document is no longer available (OK)

  Then I tried the link "_original entry_".

  Gave me the same error.

  Fortunately my browser has an added extension
  "TextArea Cache", which allows me to recover almost any text on any window that's been timed ou…