Re: Status of VMS - Unix compatibilty Extended in blead.

[email protected] (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/2/15 Craig A. Berry <[email protected]>:
>
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:43 AM, demerphq wrote:
>
>>> Miscellaneous fixes to Install.
>>>
>>> lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
>>> lib/ExtUtils/t/INST.t
>>> lib/ExtUtils/t/INST_PREFIX.t
>>>
>>> Submitted to cpan.org
>>> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42149
>>
>> Just for the record I would prefer that this goes into blead before it
>> is released as a standalone module. So for instance if a VMS committer
>> is happy with the change they should apply it to blead and let me
>> know. I cant evaluate the correctness of a VMS patch at all (although
>> i do trust you :-).
>
>
> OK, it's in:
>
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/3d55b45
>
> I'm happy to do this, but I'll need to be reminded every time it comes up
> since the general rule is to send patches upstream first and let them come
> into blead as integrations (unless there are compelling reasons, like
> clearing a lot of smoke).  There doesn't seem to be an upstream/downstream
> workflow that works well for everybody all the time.

No. But I just encoded this info in Maintainers.pl :
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/bf63da66ae0bd087

So you can do :
$ perl Porting/Maintainers --module Install
ExtUtils::Install yves         blead

Check out Porting/Maintainers, it's handy.
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