Bug#523145: O: libshell-posix-select-perl -- The POSIX Shell's "select" loop for Perl
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of libshell-posix-select-perl, Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debianforum.de>,
is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Please note that this package is already in the Perl group SVN repository, so if
you want to maintain it, get in touch with that team.
Some information about this package:
Package: libshell-posix-select-perl
Binary: libshell-posix-select-perl
Version: 0.05-1.2
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Maintainer: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debianforum.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.2)
Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.0-7), sharutils
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 3.6.2
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/libs/libshell-posix-select-perl
Files:
c445ec475288a8924f2ee084fb21dcce 692 libshell-posix-select-perl_0.05-1.2.dsc
4860ac7a49f5945e44dc91449580f37d 42069 libshell-posix-select-perl_0.05.orig.tar.gz
5ccefd05fe67f6b063a4860f0bedb129 10394 libshell-posix-select-perl_0.05-1.2.diff.gz
Package: libshell-posix-select-perl
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Installed-Size: 196
Maintainer: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debianforum.de>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.05-1.2
Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16)
Filename: pool/main/libs/libshell-posix-select-perl/libshell-posix-select-perl_0.05-1.2_all.deb
Size: 47606
MD5sum: d7895f1a9056d41bd22c29ccf08a80ca
SHA1: c2c942331ec89b6bddd3f6109d267f3f7c52646b
SHA256: 183590c338b7993da1dcc126dfd272daea08b46ff5e97afe58eb8344cb487850
Description: The POSIX Shell's "select" loop for Perl
This module implements the select loop of the "POSIX" shells (Bash, Korn, and
derivatives) for Perl. That loop is unique in two ways: it's by far the
friendliest feature of any UNIX shell, and it's the only UNIX shell loop
that's missing from the Perl language. Until now!
.
What's so great about this loop? It automates the generation of a numbered
menu of choices, prompts for a choice, proofreads that choice and complains if
it's invalid (at least in this enhanced implementation), and executes a
code-block with a variable set to the chosen value. That saves a lot of coding
for interactive programs -- especially if the menu consists of many values!
.
The benefit of bringing this loop to Perl is that it obviates the need for
future programmers to reinvent the Choose-From-A-Menu wheel.
Tag: devel::lang:perl, implemented-in::perl, role::shared-lib
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