Re: SV: SV: Perl 6 modules plan

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:59:10PM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> I like this idea.  The only question is how we get things moved into
> deprecated/ ...

A lot of modules get deprecated without being abandoned.  For example,
I'd deprecate Test.pm if there was a formal mechanism.  A lot of the
old pre-DBI modules (sybperl, etc...) are still actively owned and
maintained.


> I don't think we can deprecate modules without their
> authors' consent, unless the author is unresponsive to the point where
> we can consider the module "abandoned".

Like anything else, you take over maintenance.  Your maintenance
consists of moving it into the deprecated branch.


> On the other hand, if Perl 6 modules are going into a perl6/ directory
> or something, that will (eventually) have the effect of deprecating
> everything that's not in there.

That's different.  The Perl 5/Perl 6 CPAN split is because they're
effectively two different languages.  We'll still need a
CPAN/perl6/deprecated/ because there will be a need to deprecate Perl
6 modules, eventually (where eventually is sooner than you think).


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