On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:52:37PM +0000, Lyle wrote:
> Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > there is always siesta..... ;-)
> ahh, the LPM effort that never got finished. I don't understand why they 
> didn't just upgrade MajorDomo

Because the new! improved! version of majordomo wasn't ready then, and
*still* isn't ready now.  Wanna know how long we've been waiting for
majordomo2?  The website says:

   What do I need to run it?

   In theory, just Perl 5 and various modules, all available from CPAN.
   In practice, you really want a recent version of Perl 5, preferably
   5.005_03 or 5.6.1 ...

And the last CVS commit was in October 2007.  The last year that any
significant amount of work was done on it was 2004.

Siesta came about because some people said "wah! we're using a mailing
list manager written in python, which is evil!  If there was a mailing
list manager written in modern perl instead of the nasty perl 4 mess
that is majordomo, then I'd volunteer to hack on it to improve it".
So Richard wrote Siesta, to prove that those people were all mouth and
no trousers and would not, in fact, hack on it.  He was right.

-- 
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence

Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave
   -- Fergus Henderson
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