From paul.w.bennett at gmail.com  Sun Jun 13 14:38:20 2010
From: paul.w.bennett at gmail.com (Paul Bennett)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:38:20 -0400
Subject: [Raleigh-talk] How am I wrongly using Math::BigInt?
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So, I've got this Perl module ...

http://search.cpan.org/~pwbennett/Net-IPAddress-Util/lib/Net/IPAddress/Util.pm

... and it's not-quite-randomly failing its test suite on not-quite-random
platforms.

The testing summary is at ...

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Net-IPAddress-Util%200.10

As you'll be able to tell (with some digging), the tests that are failing
are one or more of the tests named =~ /01-try-.*/. These tests are all
sanity-checks put in place to test the underlying modules and/or libraries
that my module itself actually relies on. Those tests don't even "use" my
module -- they run directly on the underlying modules.

Now, I know for sure that the libraries themselves can't possibly be
broken: they're used by gazillions of people all day every day, even for
"real" comp sci problems. I'm pretty sure the Perl modules that use the
libraries aren't broken: they also seem to be used by other people all day
every day.

So, after eliminating the impossible, what remains is that I'm misreading
the docs badly enough that even my trivial "are you alive?" tests are
written badly enough that they're crashing hard.

Is anyone here ready, willing, and able to help me figure out what I'm
doing wrong?


-- 
Paul

From bradoaks at gmail.com  Fri Jun 18 10:55:55 2010
From: bradoaks at gmail.com (Brad Oaks)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:55:55 -0400
Subject: [Raleigh-talk] non-perl jobs
Message-ID: <AANLkTilb9DgqbnO6xqOFuzwU4d5bFuNkn76lYL-vmKqW@mail.gmail.com>

Do you all want notices of jobs that are in Java or Python?

The requests that are neither perl nor local are easy ones to discard.

What do you think about local non-perl requests for open source positions?

People seem to know that Perl developers are a decent pool for talent.

I think maybe I'll refer them to the TriLUG list.

From robertfwest at gmail.com  Fri Jun 18 11:01:03 2010
From: robertfwest at gmail.com (Rob West)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:01:03 -0400
Subject: [Raleigh-talk] non-perl jobs
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If there is no Perl usage at all, I would think that TriJUG or TriZPUG's
mailing lists would be more appropriate. Of course, if using Linux, TriLUG
would be good too.

My $0.02,
Rob

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Brad Oaks <bradoaks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you all want notices of jobs that are in Java or Python?
>
> The requests that are neither perl nor local are easy ones to discard.
>
> What do you think about local non-perl requests for open source positions?
>
> People seem to know that Perl developers are a decent pool for talent.
>
> I think maybe I'll refer them to the TriLUG list.
> _______________________________________________
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> Raleigh-talk at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-talk
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From cowanb at mindspring.com  Fri Jun 18 11:49:59 2010
From: cowanb at mindspring.com (Bill Cowan)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:49:59 -0400
Subject: [Raleigh-talk] non-perl jobs
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Message-ID: <4C1BBFD7.5050601@mindspring.com>

For this mailing list, local in the Triangle area and Perl would make 
sense.
Also keeps it simple for the fine list moderator.
For outside the Triangle, there is also the jobs at perl.org list.

Bill

On 6/18/2010 1:55 PM, Brad Oaks wrote:
> Do you all want notices of jobs that are in Java or Python?
>
> The requests that are neither perl nor local are easy ones to discard.
>
> What do you think about local non-perl requests for open source positions?
>
> People seem to know that Perl developers are a decent pool for talent.
>
> I think maybe I'll refer them to the TriLUG list.
> _______________________________________________
> Raleigh-talk mailing list
> Raleigh-talk at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-talk
>
>    

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-- Bill
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