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Re: perl-5.18.2-1
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:17:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: perl-5.18.2-1
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On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 23:00 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
> On 15/08/14 22:15, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > Where did we leave off wrt breaking out
> > perl_vendor?
>
> Back in April, Reini expressed a desire to keep perl_vendor, claiming
> that it is the easiest solution for both user and maintainer [1].
>
> Whilst there are some of us who might question this, Reini has vastly
> more knowledge and experience of perl than I ever will have. So when
> Reini states that there are good reasons why perl_vendor should stay, I
> am prepared to respect his judgement.
>
> As our perl maintainer wishes to keep perl_vendor, any discussion to the
> contrary seems somewhat academic.
The problem is that is seems to have remained academic; four months
later, and we still don't have a replacement for perl_vendor.
Reini, where are you holding with this? It's fine if you don't want to
maintain all the perl module packages separately, there are those who
are willing to help.
Yaakov