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From:
David Golden
Date:
August 19, 2010 11:46
Subject:
Re: Remove Devel::DProf from 5.16
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> wrote:
> 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".

The packaging should be trivial.  (cough, dzil, cough, grin).

The documentation should clearly state that it is no longer supported.

Then it can just decay into oblivion.

-- David

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