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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
February 1, 2005 07:20
Subject:
Re: [perl #33998] [PATCH] Support for GNU/kFreeBSD
Message ID:
20050201162109.026ee6ce@pc09
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:54:08 -0500 (EST), Andrew Dougherty
<doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> 
> > H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > >
> > > I cannot let you have a peek at the files that make the base of
> > > Configure. There's almost 900 of them, in a special depot, to which only
> > > few have access
> >
> > It would be interesting to release them somewhere publicly (just in case
> > some fools could be interested :) be it by dropping a tarball on CPAN or
> > by setting up an svn mirror.
> 
> Oh there's no objection to releasing them publicly -- they aren't secret
> at all -- it's just tedious to "take a peek" and rarely that useful.
> 
> For example, the metaconfig units for perl versions 5.003, 5.004, and
> 5.005 have all been available for many years on CPAN under my id (ANDYD).
> I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who have
> contacted me about them, and still have fingers left over :-).
> 
> It's just never seemed that worthwhile to set up any more complex public
> distribution scheme since it'd be so rarely used.

PAUSE just accepted mc_units-20050201.tbz to be mirrored to

.../$CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/mc_units-20050201.tbz

on a CPAN mirror close to you soon.
Enjoy, Have FUN!

-- 
H.Merijn Brand        Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
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  AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0 pro 2.4.21 & Win2k.     http://www.cmve.net/~merijn
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