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From:
Steve Peters
Date:
August 19, 2010 11:41
Subject:
Re: Remove Devel::DProf from 5.16
Message ID:
AANLkTiktduhaMziJJ18s+a0th-+Urg-zhR83AMgpPx50@mail.gmail.com
I think willing sucker is less appropriate than someone who is happy to
announce the module's deprecation from the rooftops and will gleefully
answer these questions as follows every time.

"Can you fix this?"  "No".
"Can you add this feature?"  "No".

Steve



On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:24:19PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > Devel::DProf is obsolete. For details of why it can't be fixed, see
> >
> http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/07/12/devel-dprof-broken-by-the-passage-of-time/
> >
> > I propose that we remove it from core by 5.16. I'm not sure whether the
> > better approach is
> >
> > a: package it on CPAN for people who (think that they) "really" need it
> >    (can be for 5.14+ only, which eases the backporting issues)
> >
> > or
> >
> > b: just kill it
> >
>
> +1
>
> I think I'd prefer a: if we can find a willing sucker.
> --
>

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