On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Mike Alexander <[email protected]> writes: > >> Sure, I can maintain F::Q, but I don't have a Windows machine so I >> can't do much with packaging it for Windows. I also can't put the new >> version up on CPAN, of course, which means that the installer script >> for MacOSX and other Unix variants will have to be changed. If we >> install it ourselves where do we put it? I suspect that adding >> packages to CPAN's directories behind its back isn't consider entirely >> kosher. I see that the Windows install script uses ppm to install it >> which would have to be changed too. I'm not really up on Perl all >> that much, how hard is it to install private packages into an >> arbitrary Perl installation? >> >> Rewriting it would be non-trivial. The whole package is about 11,000 >> lines of Perl code (including comments). This includes modules for >> nearly 50 quote sources, some of which could probably be skipped, but >> it's still a fair amount of code. I also don't think you could >> entirely avoid screen scraping. Many of the quote sources don't >> provide a way to get the data otherwise. They probably don't >> encourage that since they want you to see their ads. >> >> I agree that the current situation is not really tenable, but forking >> it isn't quite as easy as it seems at first glance. I don't know what >> the right answer is. > > Is there any way someone can take over the maint of the official CPAN > package?
http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#takeover The last CPAN uploader was Eric Colson, http://search.cpan.org/~ecocode/ Dave Hampton is listed as one of the project admins on Sourceforge; he might have contacts to Colson or Fenwick. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
