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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
July 30, 2014 13:53
Subject:
Re: maintainer wanted: Time::Piece
Message ID:
20140730134941.GA14713@cancer.codesimply.com
* James E Keenan <jkeen@verizon.net> [2014-07-29T18:57:31]
> Notwithstanding Samuel's offer to take over maintenance of Time-Piece, I
> would like to ask:  Is there a compelling reason why this is distributed
> with core?
> [...] 
> So Time::Piece (and, for that matter, Time::Seconds) is used in
> Porting/acknowledgements.pl.  And it's mentioned in perlfaq4.  But if this
> distribution were not already in 'cpan/', would we be considering it for
> distribution with Perl 5 core?

No, I wouldn't add it today, if it wasn't already there.  It's in core now
because it was in core last week, basically.  My gut says that removing it will
be more annoyance than it's worth.  It's not a carefully weighed hunch.

-- 
rjbs

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