Rosetta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Darren Duncan PREFACE This distribution features the Perl 5 module named "Rosetta", as well as "Rosetta::Model" and "Rosetta::Validator" and "Rosetta::Engine::Example"; see the files lib/Rosetta.pm, lib/Rosetta/Model.pm and lib/Rosetta/Language.pod for the roots of the main documentation, which is in POD format, plus the Dependencies and Copyright (temporarily, also see lib/Rosetta/Overview.pod, lib/Rosetta/TODO.pod, and lib/Rosetta/Copying.pod for more of the same). The distribution also includes a Changes file to say what changes already happened, and a TODO file to say what changes have yet to happen. The file INSTALL should help with installation issues. The extra file docs/OSCON2005LightningTalk.txt contains a snapshot of what Rosetta both was and was intended to be as of early 2005.08; it is the pristine text of a brief talk I gave then. The extra file docs/OSCON2006SessionProposal.txt contains a similar snapshot for early 2006.02; it proposes a 45 minute talk that has not yet been approved. Read below for how to get support or keep up to date. KEEPING UP TO DATE My module set is constantly under development. The canonical copies are all linked to through my website, "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/", on the page called "Perl Libraries I Made" (name subject to change). For those of you that are interested in the bleeding edge of development, I have all parts of this "Rosetta" distribution in one or more public Subversion repositories; these repositories only contain revisions made in mid-2005 and later. The "Rosetta" modules exist in 2 distinct code major bases, separated by a ground-up rewrite process. The first major code base, whose development had started in late 2002 and ended as of 2005.09.28 (but for a retroactive 2006.01.13 release that was as-of 2005.09.29), is at "http://svn.utsl.gen.nz/trunk/Rosetta-old/". The second major code base, whose development had started on 2005.09.30 and continues thru to the present, is available in 2 parallel versions at "http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/ext/Rosetta/" (Perl 6) and at "http://svn.utsl.gen.nz/trunk/Rosetta/" (Perl 5). You can download slightly older versions of all of my modules from the public CPAN archives at "http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or on my own web server at "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl". CPAN also extracts the POD from modules and maintains that documentation in an organized and searchable fashion. Their main search site is at "http://search.cpan.org", and my own DUNCAND author page is at "http://search.cpan.org/search?author=DUNCAND". You can download my oldest tarred and gzipped distributions from BACKPAN, at "http://history.perl.org/backpan/authors/id/D/DU/DUNCAND/", or from my web server, at "http://www.DarrenDuncan.net/d/perl/archives/", right back to the libdwg 1.0, first released on 2000 July 23. SUPPORT Currently I don't have any support arranged with other people, lists, newsgroups, or otherwise. Feel free to ask me if you can't figure things out on your own, or another person whom you know has used this. I may start a mailing list for support issues later, so that users of my modules can help each other with them. FIN Share and Enjoy!