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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Neil Bowers <neil.bowers@cogendo.com> wrote: > Back in February, I asked: >>> Questions: Are we enough in the future that VMS::stdio can be dropped? And >>> more relevantly for me, am I ok to drop all the permissions on VMS::stdio? >>> That would result in VMS::Stdio being indexed for the next release, though I >>> don’t think the indexing is that much of an issue, since they’re core >>> modules with upstream undef. >> > > Craig said: >> Yes to both those questions. > > The attached patch drops the VMS::stdio shim, so there will just be VMS::Stdio. The latter had doc that talked about the compatibility shim, so I changed that doc to say that the VMS::compatibility shim has been dropped. > > Background > Perl 5 initially shipped with VMS::stdio. In 5.002 this was changed to VMS::Stdio, but that has included a cuckoo package for VMS::stdio, which used AUTOLOAD to generate a warning if you used VMS::stdio, then redirect calls to VMS::Stdio. 5.002 was quite a while ago now, so we’re dropping the compatibility interface. > > I’m doing this so we don’t have conflicting package names when PAUSE consider package permissions. Thanks, applied: <https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/1f52e4c40f4c8f591df6917a490f208d081adb9e>Thread Previous | Thread Next