❦ 26 mai 2013 21:00 CEST, Ron <[email protected]> :

>> Hi Ron,
>> If you believe there is an serious problem which prevents you
>> from updating the package, would you please point it out on the
>> GLOBAL Bug mailing list ([email protected])?
>> Let's argue about it in the public place.
>
> We already discussed this in detail when you first proposed this
> new change and I pointed out why elements of it were showstoppers
> for distro deployment.  And we had discussed, and agreed on, the
> necessary constraints that any solution needed to satisfy when we
> first worked on this problem together many years ago now to make
> it suitable for distro users in the first place.
>
> So far as I'm aware nothing has changed about any of that since
> our last discussion, so just repeating the same arguments again
> isn't likely to be a very productive use of our time.
>
> If you have some new proposal that addresses these concerns though,
> then I'll be happy to try and find some time to review and comment
> upon that further.

Hi Ron!

To my understanding, those discussions were not public. This is rather
difficult to understand why we can't get a newer version of GLOBAL in
Debian. Are the problems limited to the CGI script?
-- 
Replace repetitive expressions by calls to a common function.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)

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