On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Jesse Luehrs wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:14:02AM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote: > > > parent is dual-life, so it wouldn't be a case of dropping support, it > > > would just be an extra dependency for 5.8. That said, an extra > > > dependency for no actual reason does seem a bit questionable (which is > > > why I was asking for the reasoning). > > > > Have you looked at the base.pm code? It needs to die as quick a death > as we > > can bring it. > > If "ugly code" was a reason to avoid using a module, I would be > significantly less productive in perl d: > >
Or maintaining significantly more forks of various modules and ideas. -Chris