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From:
Reini Urban
Date:
August 22, 2010 14:03
Subject:
Re: Remove Devel::DProf from 5.16
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2010/8/19 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>:
> 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.

We could bring NYTProf into core, and alias the old name DProf to it.
So all parties will be happy

The old DProf could survive at CPAN under a different name then. Devel::DProfOld
We own it, so we can do that.
-- 
Reini

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