On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:57:10PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > I agree, filing bugs and direct mails are much better than -devel-announce > > posts, much less likely for one to skip by accident IMHO. > > That depends on your mail-setup. IMHO it's reasonable to expect from DDs > to follow -devel-announce without accidently overlooking a post there or > two.
I follow it, and I saw that post, but I have forty packages, and I'm not sure offhand if any of them have Perl dependencies strict enough to warrant changes for Perl 5.8. At that particular time, I didn't really read all of it because I was busy with other things. But I can assure you that I would have cast other things aside to look closely at this if the post said "Your package <something> is <something>". Writing a direct mail is socially less error-prone, and technically absolutely trivial, so I see no reason not to do it. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.