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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 28, 2013 19:46
Subject:
Re: File::Spec in XS
Message ID:
20130228194630.GC3729@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:58:51PM -0500, David Golden wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> wrote:
> > Are we sure that this can't go in before 5.18? If not, then NOW is the time.
> 
> I think we're at the point where a module of this importance, with a
> change of this magnitude, should wait for 5.19.
> 
> That said, I'm extremely excited by idea of XS File::Spec and would
> love to see it land early in 5.19 with a CPAN release around the same
> time.

I agree, for the same reasons.

A CPAN release enables anyone wishing to be an early adopter to be so,
without forcing everyone else to be.

Nicholas Clark

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