Re: Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer < helmut.wollmersdor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would be nice to discuss freeing the reservation of namespaces > after some time without usage. IMHO 3 years should be enpough. There are a lot of namespaces in the 06perms file that aren't in

Re: Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread Alberto Simoes
On 06/03/16 14:46, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: At least it's a little bit boring that authors "first come, do nothing". That is true, but you can always 1) try to contact the first coming author, 2) in no luck, poke modules mailing list asking for perms. It's not optimal. But it should work

Unused namespaces

2016-03-06 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Hi, don't know if this was ever discussed. Two examples of unused namespaces: 1) Algorithm::LCS Algorithm::LCS MJD 06-Sep-1998 MJD later renamed the dist to Algorithm::Diff Algorithm-LCS-1.04 CHORNY 11-Aug-2003 unauthorized Part of this source is used by AlgorithmDiff::XS 2) Lan