On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 08:48 , Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
Hi Dan,
today I revisited enc2xs and found three things missing:
Okay....
- enc2xs doesn't write a MANIFEST file: this would be handy as the
innocent user doesn't know which files need to be included in a
distribution
I reckon your suggestion is to 'let enc2xs generate any missing files
that are enough to CPANize the encoding'. is there any other file
missing? MANIFEST autogeneration is trivial but I still prefer 'make
manifest'....
- no -h or --help option
I'm not sure enc2xs be used frequently enough to call for the need for
-h but there is no reason not to add one. Maybe detailed info on -M and
very, very brief description on -o and such that are not supposed to be
invoked by human (even I don't do that except for debugging).
- no -v or --version option
This should return the version of Encode.pm as well as enc2xs itself.
I'd volunteer to add all that if you'd be inclined to accept (and
proofread) it. Please let me know what you think.
I am glad you help me out (well, your trust level is so high that you
can do all the work and all I do is put your new version to my
repository -- and claim the credit (c) ams).
But I am not so happy if enc2xs becomes behemoth like h2xs. Man, I
thought I had soothed all the feeping creaturism before the release of
5.8.0....
Dan the Patient of Feeping Creaturism
