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demerphq
Date:
April 24, 2007 01:54
Subject:
Re: [Andreas J. Koenig] C3 MRO breaks Params::Util and Graph
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On 4/24/07, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:08:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 23:17 -0700, Joshua ben Jore wrote:
> > > Aren't there some OSes like Red Hat which frequently ship with
> > > Scalar::Util minus the XS portions like weaken and blessed?
> >
> > Yes,
> > <checks other laptop> Mandrake Linux 9.2 did as well.
>
> Then they are buggy.
> Not us.

Thank you. My thoughts exactly. Removing XS implementations of core
modules is a seriously stupid thing to do and any distro which does so
deserves to handle all the bug reports themselves.

Yves

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