Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Are whatever changes you had to make going back into the CPAN > versions?
Short answer: I will do my utmost to send the appropriate patches to the appropriate people. Long answer: It's unlikely, but I'll do my best. CPAN modules are owned by their authors, and no mechanism exists to update modules which their authors do not have the time to maintain any longer (such as the non-maintainer-upload system Debian uses) maybe if I manage to track them down ask the authors' permission. Libwin32 itself is just a bundle Sarathy had to make that itself has very minimal changes from the original modules. As far as the Win32:: methods marked CORE (in perldoc Win32), last year I tried to abstract those functions out into a Perl extension that would be a core extension, but didn't quite get there. I'll try to do so again. It's very often much easier to fix something then to get those fixes propagated upstream. Especially since the requirements may be different for an upstream patch, and depending on how active the project is. Also there's lots of cleaning up to do to make all this happen. BTW, I've just ported Win32::GUI to Cygwin. Just taking care of some warnings and regression tests and will post an announcement when it's uploaded and in the libwin32-exp package. -- Rafael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
