On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:51:40PM -0800, Rafael Kitover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
If the original owner has gone AWOL, you can ask to have ownership transfered to you (but that may not be what you want :) > 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. Seems like it would make sense to include those in the core for cygwin as well. If you'll give me a pointer to what you've done, I can see what I can do. > 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. Great! Thanks! -- 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/
