On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:05:50PM -0400, Phillip Moore wrote:
> Sometime in the last year, ownership of the bignum distro changed hands
> from FLORA to PJACKLAM. On CPAN, FLORA's last release (bignum-0.32) is
> still present along with PKACJLAM's new one (bignum-0.37).
>
> However:
>
> $ zgrep bignum mirror/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> bigint 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> bignum 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> bigrat 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> Math::BigFloat::Trace 0.36 P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz
> Math::BigInt::Trace 0.36 P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz
>
> All 3 of the big* modules are indexed to the older FLORA release, not the
> newer PJACKLAM release.
It appears that FLORA didn't hand over ownership of big{int,num,rat} but
only of Math::Big{Float,Int}::Trace.
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