Re: Where is ExtUtils-Install maintained?
[email protected] (James E Keenan)
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On 09/15/2014 06:37 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:22 PM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Last month I sent this message to the perl5-porters mailing list. I got >> no replies. Does anyone on this list have thoughts on this? >> >> ##### >> Two recently filed RT tickets ... >> >> https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121829 >> https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122596 >> >> ... led me to look for the source code for ExtUtils::Installed and >> ExtUtils::Packlist. They're part of the ExtUtils-Install distribution >> which is distributed with core. >> >> In the core distro, ExtUtils-Install is found under 'cpan/', which >> suggests that it is *primarily* maintained on CPAN by one or more >> maintainers, and not maintained by P5P. >> >> However, when I go to http://search.cpan.org/~ >> bingos/ExtUtils-Install-1.68/, I see that this distro's bug tracker is >> listed as http://rt.perl.org/rt3/ and its repository is listed as >> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/. In other words, it's maintained in >> core not on cpan/. >> >> If so, then shouldn't ExtUtils-Install be under 'dist/' rather than >> 'cpan/' in the core distribution? >> >> From pod/perlsource.pod: >> >> dist: "This directory is for dual-life modules where the blead source is >> canonical." >> >> I'd like to clarify this before embarking on work on either of the two RTs >> cited above. >> > > AFAIK it has recently been decided to move it from core, but as it hasn't > seen a release yet rt.cpan.org still thinks the upstream bugtracker is > rt.perl.org. > > Leon > Please ping me when this release happens so that I can close related tickets in rt.perl.org. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan