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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > I made the change that broke D:D for older Perls. I did not realize there > was an issue in patching a core module in that it could be dual-lived. > perlhack does not address the issue. Our documentation needs to be updated > about this; I don't know what it should say. Suggestions welcome. I think perhaps we just need a short note to the effect that anything in cpan/ and dist/ are dual-life and should not be made incompatible with older Perls without good reason and approval of the Pumpking. With respect to attitudes, email is hard and we all know that. But... I think it's a good practice to assume that people on p5p have the best of intentions, even if the results don't turn out the way we all want. Karl was trying to make things better. So was Jim. Peter was trying to save people on older Perl's from upgrading Data::Dumper and slowing down. That's trying to make things better, too. Let's focus on the technical issues and try to respect people's intentions and effort. David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next