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Moin,
On 02-Dec-01 Mark Biggar tried to scribble about:
> Tels wrote:
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>> Helo Mark,
>>
>> once again I have to ask you a favour. After some complains by a user it
>> came to light that CPAN thinks that the latest official version of
>> Math::BigInt is v0.01.
>>
>> Michael G. Schwern explained to me (see below) that Math::BigInt is
>> owned
>> by MARKB (very probably you ;) and that the authorship was never
>> transfered
>> to me. (It is unclear why I am able to upload new versions, though).
>>
>> So, may I ask you to transfer the authorship on CPAN? That is
>> possible via the WWW-Interface (but very probably you did not login
>> there
>> for a long time ;). Alternatively, you can email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - but
>> as
>> Michael noted, they are quite slow on these things ;)
>>
>> The problem here is that anybody who uses CPAN.pm to install
>> Math::BigInt
>> will be told that the v0.01 on his system is "up-to-date" - which is an
>> understatement, at least ;o)
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Tels
[snip Michaels mail]
> Unfortunately PAUSE was set up a long time after I wrote the Big*.
I feared as much ;o)
> I wrote it and Larry just included it in the standard perl
> distribution. So, I never really submitted it to CPAN it just
> kind of appeared there. Even though they apprear to have
> created a author ID for me of MARKB, I haven't the slightest idea
> what the password is, so can't change anything, and so would have
> to work through [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyway to fix this.
>
> I hereby transfer authorship to you. Forward this e-mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED], if necessary so you can take over.
Thank you! ;o) I send this to them and blindcopy you (so that your address
does not appear in th www-archive, since I don't know if you like it to get
public).
> --
> Mark Biggar
Best regards,
Tels
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