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On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:02:18 +0200, Oodler 577 <oodler577@sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> * Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> [2023-08-22 23:09:09 +0200]:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:43:03 +0200, Oodler 577 via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
>>
>> > vaporware
>>
>> ovid never used that word.
>
> I am going to take your word for it
i believe it is important to only make accusations one has evidence for
>> ovid merely pointed out the basic fact that you have provided no code that
>> is executable on the official perl distribution
>>
>> if you have it, please provide
>>
>>
>>
>> it is also notable that the non-functional code you DO have on CPAN
>> proposes to provide a string.pm which would violate PAUSE perms, as:
>>
>> $ cpanm string
>> --> Working on string
>> Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABERGMAN/types-0.05.tar.gz ... OK
>>
>> something which you have steadfastly refused reply to in any fashion,
>> which makes one wonder
>
> Have you inspected the source code of types.pm"?
>
> It is a 21 year old CPAN squatter package that contains the following code:
> ( direct link, https://metacpan.org/dist/types/source/lib/types.pm):
>
> Note via CPAN, types.pm provides:
>
> * float in lib/types.pm
> * int in lib/types.pm
> * number in lib/types.pm
> * string in lib/types.pm
> * unknown in lib/types.pm
>
> And the code, which is unfortunate:
>
> package types;
> ...
> package unknown;
> our $dummy = 1;
> package int;
> our $dummy = 1;
> sub check {
> return 0 if($_[0] eq 'int' && ($_[1] ne 'number' && $_[1] ne 'int'));
> return 1;
> }
> package float;
> use base qw(int);
> sub check {
> return 0 if($_[1] eq 'string');
> return 1;
> }
> our $dummy = 1;
> package number;
> use base qw(float);
> sub check {
> return 0 if($_[1] eq 'string');
> return 1;
> }
> our $dummy = 1;
> package string;
> use base qw(number);
> sub check { return 1};
> 1;
> __END__
>
> And that's just the facts. "Playing nice" with a clear case of CPAN squatting
> is hard to do. What do you suggest the path forward is for this pickle?
my time is too limited currently to work out suggestions on fixes and i know people already provided suggestions to you which would improve the proposal overall and also address this issue
i am here to provide questions and feedback
that said: is there a known pause policy regarding your identified behavior of squatting?
--
With regards,
Christian Walde
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