Show quoted text> I would like to see a version of it that does not require access to
> the internet. The operations that are being performed on the text
> seem simple enoug that they could easily be performed in Perl
> without connecting to a remote web service.
Right. When the idea for this module was originally conceived, it was
actually going to be an offline version that merely duplicated the way
lipsum.com works. In the end, looking into non-naive ways of generating
the text led me to think that I'd need to use something like
Algorithm::MarkovChain, which was a bit above my head when I started,
and so it was easier to write a scraper.
Show quoted text> I don't want to use it in a test script and have it fail one day
> because the lipsum website is down or has changed their interface.
Yes, fair enough. The good news is that someone I work with is actually
planning to write an offline version, hopefully starting this week. I'll
let you know how that goes via this queue.
Thanks,
Earle.
