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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
August 20, 2010 01:45
Subject:
Re: Remove Devel::DProf from 5.16
Message ID:
20100820074024.GS18499@cust-52-193.cust.o2.ie
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:10:04AM -1000, tim.jenness wrote:
> > 
> > Great idea. Could we rebrand Devel::NYTProf so Devel::DProf would still be the perl profiler? Most people just want -d:DProf to work.
> 
> Effectively this would eliminate acknowledgment of the contribution of the
> New York Times back to the Perl ecosystem, which I feel would be unwise.

The New York Times hasn't contributed anything to NYTProf in years.

Arguably they're being rewarded for forking a project (Devel::SmallProf)
that they could have simply contributed to.

Tim.

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