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On 02/13/2017 11:22 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > Hi, > > Exec Summary: am I ok to drop PAUSE permissions > on PerlIO::Scalar, PerlIO::Via, and VMS::stdio? > > I’m writing this wearing my PAUSE admin hat. I’m working through > clearing up situations where people have permissions on package names > that only differ in case. Most cases are where people have renamed a > module, and not dropped the old permissions. Once we’ve resolved all > these situations, we can tighten up PAUSE, and don’t need to have code > to deal with various conflict edge cases. > > There are three pairs of module names where I’d like to drop the > permissions on the no-longer-used name, where and if that’s possible. > One of them is non-trivial. > > P5P has first-come permissions on both PerlIO::scalar > and PerlIO::Scalar. The former is what’s now released with Perl 5 (and > a bunch of people have co-maint on it as well), and the latter appears > to have been released between 5.007003 and 5.008 (I’m looking at > Module::CoreList). > > Similarly P5P has first-come on both PerlIO::via and PerlIO::Via. The > former is what’s in use, and the latter was between 5.007003 and 5.008. > > *Question*: am I ok to drop the permissions on the no-longer used > PerlIO::Scalar and PerlIO::Via? I see no reason not to. Go for it. And thanks for the research and analysis of this. :) (And obviously, as always, the work you do!) S.Thread Previous | Thread Next