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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:46:01PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > 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. I'm actually quite happy to remove people's option to "do stupid" with it. And if they say "but I need Devel::DProf", then the answer is "don't upgrade your core perl". Sort of like pseudohashes, or anything else that came out from core. To try to snare them on a decent profiler, rather than sleepwalking back to the one that they know. (Of course, I'm not stopping anyone from doing anything. If anyone is keen/ brave/crazy/altruistic enough) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous