Mon Jun 11 21:40:36 2012: Request 76368 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by j...@activestate.com
Queue: Win32
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #76368] rewrote Win32
Broken in: 0.44
Severity: Wishlist
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: bul...@hotmail.com
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76368 >
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, bulk88 via RT wrote:
>
> I would prefer for this ticket to come to a timely conclusion. 2 months
> have passed since I opened it. I understand Win32 is a big and important
> module for Perl on Windows. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am getting
> the impression that you are not comfortable in such radical changes to
> the old Win32. Please tell me whether you are planning to only use the
> bug fixes, test suite, and POD and exclude the optimizations. If so, I
> will fork my rewrite on CPAN. I would rather not have the code languish
> forever in RT.
Yes, I'm not comfortable including the code that duplicates functionality
from the C runtime library. It is not clear to me how this would be
an improvement or optimization. Feel free to create a fork with these
changes if they are important to you.
Cheers,
-Jan
