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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
May 27, 2008 04:00
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] recent 'lib.pm' change => dual-life lib.pm
Message ID:
20080527110009.GA49623@timac.local
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> Hi p5p, hi Tim,

Your message had a "Newsgroups: perl.perl5.porters" line but I'm not
sure if that's a two-way gateway. It may not have reached the actual
mailing list, so I'm CC'ing this reply.

> since the lib.pm that ships with any released perl still warns on "use
> lib 'foo.par'", I'd like to see (or make) a CPAN release of it so I can
> depend on that from PAR.
> 
> Attached is a patch against Maintainers.pl to add me as maintainer for
> lib/lib_pm.PL and lib/lib.t.

Feel free to remove me. Ancient history. I don't even remeber
contributing to it.

> Tim, you're listed as the author of the module, do you have any
> objections to having a separate CPAN release? If not, would you like to
> do that or should I?

I've no objection to lib.pm becoming dual-life, but since I've no wish
to maintain it that doesn't actually count for much :)

> Does anybody else have gripes with this plan? For the record, Nicholas
> said he had no objections to this on IRC.
> 
> Best regards,
> Steffen
> 
> P.S.: Yes, I know I'd have to do some magic during the installation of
> the tentative module from CPAN to have the same behaviour as the lib.pm
> that was built with perl. I'm working on it.

Tim.

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