[Developers] Pre Hack Day present

Tom Morris tfmorris at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 21:50:44 UTC 2009


If you guys can get it up on github or Google Code or someplace
similar it will be a lot easier to collaborate on it with others.

Tom

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kirrily Robert<kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:
> This is awesome, Phil!  I would be happy to hand over CPAN
> maintainership of the module to you.  You should definitely make it
> available via CPAN.  If you're not familiar with that process, I can
> help you out.
>
> K.
>
> On 09/07/2009, at 1:51 PM, Philip Kendall wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I can't make hack day due to being on the wrong side of the
>> Atlantic, so
>> I'll give up my little offering now for anyone interested...
>>
>> A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away (OK, actually 10 Sep
>> 2007), an
>> intrepid coder called Kirrily "Skud" Robert (you may have heard of
>> her)
>> released the Metaweb Perl module for interfacing with this a new
>> site called "Freebase".
>>
>> Then not much happened, other than JSON::XS changed its API so the
>> module no longer works without a quick hack.
>>
>> One thing I've had going on the back burner is an updated version of
>> Metaweb.pm, and now seems as good a time as any to get it out there.
>> Brief highlights of my changes:
>>
>> * Use new JSON::XS API
>> * Full cookie support (mwLastWriteTime now works)
>> * New search, touch and trans methods, which map through to the
>>  appropriate Freebase services
>>
>> That's about it. The documentation's lacking in areas. Please feel
>> very
>> free to hack on it at Hack Day and come up with something better.
>> Blame
>> me for all bugs, not Kirrily.
>>
>> http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/Metaweb.tar.gz
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> --
>>  Philip Kendall <philip at shadowmagic.org.uk>
>>  http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/
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