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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> 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 Devel::DProf is obsolete.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 b) was how B::CC got killed from core. Reini later picked it up and has been doing interesting things with it. I think that was a fantastically successful deprecation. DProf could easily die off the same way. JoshThread Previous | Thread Next