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On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Christian Walde via RT < perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > KWILLIAMS is the original author, and has clearly passed his mantle of > authority on since 2008. > Not quite, he's more accurately described as the first packager. File::Spec has been shipped with core since 5.005 (1998) and dual-lifed by Ken in 2004. In fact it was originally a rib taken out of ExtUtils::MakeMaker (which is why it inherits from File::Spec). > Lastly there is the wider question of: > > What's this module's life cycle supposed to be? > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsource.html#Core-modules states things > clearly for cpan/, but for dist/ it only says the repo is canonical, > nothing about the life cycle. > I think that's because there are various very different reasons for module to be in dist/. In this particular case it makes sense because it's a rather mature and stable distribution, and changes are likely to be caused by porting efforts (such as AmigaOS recently). > How are releases of File::Spec/Cwd supposed to be handled? > > - Primarily with Perl and to CPAN only security/critical fixes? > - Perl and CPAN in tandem? > - Primarily CPAN as soon as a release is viable, and in Perl only to keep > new installs up-to-date? > Keeping them in tandem should be the default IMO. I can't see any reason to not do that in this particular case. LeonThread Previous