Joe Schaefer wrote:
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


> Eventually that dynamic will reverse itself, and that would be the
> time to phase out mp1 from CPAN. But not we're not there yet, IMO [*].


[...]


And that's exactly why workarounds shouldn't be sought after. Since
once the trend reverts, those workarounds will bite you back. Solving
it properly on the CPAN/PAUSE level now will provide a proper solution
which won't break when the trend changes.


Looks reasonable. Then how about changing mp2's META.yml
to simply not index any similarly-named mp1-modules?

What difference would it make? It'll fix the problem for modules requiring mp1, but it'll break dependencies for modules requiring mp2. Even if you it's reasonable to suggest that there are more mp1 users at the moment, who's going to decide when it's the right time to stop the wheel and start rolling it in the opposite direction. Why giving users a false warm feeling when things are broken in reality, and it will hit them sooner or later?


Besides, your suggestion to simply not index any similarly-named mp1-modules, includes mod_perl.pm. So anybody who did moved to mp2 and tries to check whether there is a new version by querying the client for that module name will be mislead to think that there are none. Or do you suggest to make a special case for mod_perl.pm?

And if you follow your own suggestion, you will have to completely exclude libapreq2 from indexing, preventing anybody from seeing it via CPAN clients.

And to be consistent it will need to be followed by other Apache:: modules, like Apache::Scoreboard.

If you do all these, you can be sure that the migration to mp2 will take a few years and more, since people will be simply unaware of new things being released.

This doesn't address all of Randal's complaints (eg perldoc doesn't
know about Apache2),

mp2doc exists to solve this problem, it is installed when mp2 is installed. It was added in 1.99_09 - April 28, 2003.


but that's a change which would put me on the positive side of a final release vote.

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