Re: Proposed Mac::Pasteboard

On Jan 29, 10:49 am, da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Cantrell) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:45:56AM -0800, harryfm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > That seems to argue that I publish Mac::Pasteboard pretty much as is,
> > then follow with Mac::Clipboard. It's lazy, but is it lazy _enough_?
> > Would it expedite discussion if I put out a pre-release of the code?
> > If so, how should it be done? Mail the tarball to people who ask? Post
> > to the newsgroup? Submit to CPAN with a development version number? I
> > can't guarantee the do***entation to be limpid prose, but the code
> > works.
>
> Release early, release often, that's what I do.
>
> I note, however, that there is already a Clipboard module that claims to
> do the job on OS X.  But the tests don't run properly on OS X.
>
> So *maybe* Mac::Clipboard isn't necessary.
>

Yeah. But Clipboard under Mac OS X just shells out to pbcopy or
pbpaste, as the case may be. And then only if you have IO::All
installed (or at least, that's what I assume from the errors I get --
apparantly the author wasn't careful about what his or her
dependencies were).

I _do_ have subroutines called (suprise, suprise) pbcopy and pbpaste;
but also an o-o interface that will do "get me the UTF16 text from
pasteboard item 12345 on pasteboard 'my.very.own.pasteboard'."

That's why I was raising the possibility of release, since if I did
that, we'd all be (potentially, anyway) talking about the same code,
instead of just each talking about our own ideas of it.

Tom Wyant