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Postings from October 2008
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the
> licensing issues on CPAN.
>
[Snip]
> 4) Module::Starter and similar tools should use the same list
> (maybe taken directly from Software::License) to guide the users
> when they create a new module.
>
Well, I tried to contribute to Module-Starter and indeed had fixing its
licence-handling in the future as a priority. The first thing I did was add
some comprehensive tests, which M-S was almost completely absent of. I
submitted a patch for this here:
http://code.google.com/p/module-starter/issues/detail?id=2
While working on the patch, I found some bugs, which I wrote a subset patch
for here:
http://code.google.com/p/module-starter/issues/detail?id=3
Both of these happened over two months ago.
The patches were not applied yet, and if I am to fix the licence-handling in
M-S, then it is a pre-requisite that they will be.
Andy Lester (M-S' maintainer) blogged about Module-Starter here:
http://perlbuzz.com/2008/10/creating-a-module-distribution-with-modulestarter.html
And said that:
{{{
Now, Perl Training Australia has done just that with one of its Perl
Tips, "Starting a module with Module::Starter". I've already absorbed it into
the Module::Starter distribution.
}}}
Now, RJBS who is a M-S co-maintainer now has his own private
distribution-creation magic (which is not released yet), and there was also a
distribution like that released by a certain Japanese developer who announced
it on use.perl.org. Its documentation is full of Engrish.
In short - we live in interesting times.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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