I've created a project for libwin32 on Google Code and imported all
old tarballs and patches from BackPAN, CPAN and my personal archives
into it so that we have a public repository of all the historical
changes.
The project URL is:
http://code.google.com/p/libwin32/
As I indicated before, I've found myself unable to update all contained
modules to a releasable state at the same time. Therefore all modules
will from now on be released separately on CPAN, and libwin32 itself
will become only a small shell containing Bundle::libwin32 that references
all Win32 modules historically included in libwin32.
I'm currently in the process of cleaning everything up a little bit to
prepare for a synchronized initial release of all modules together with
the updated Bundle::libwin32. After that all modules can be released
totally independent of each other.
I've changed many of the subdirectory names inside the repository so that
all names now correspond directly to the individual distribution name on
CPAN.
Chris Madsen has rearranged all the Win32::IPC related modules maintained
by him into a single Win32-IPC tree that will continue to be released
together (Win32::IPC, Win32::Event, Win32::Mutex, Win32::Semaphore, plus
the somewhat related Win32::ChangeNotify).
I don't want to resolve all the pending changes from the bug tracker for
the initial release, just some general cleanup, adding META.yml files,
renaming test.pl files that don't generate TAP output etc. I hope to
be able to do this initial release within the next 2 weeks or so.
I'm also going to offer other authors of Win32::* modules to host their
modules in the libwin32 repository, if they want to, as we are now no longer
restricted by the original libwin32 content. I don't plan on adding
additional modules to the Bundle::libwin32 list though, as that list
should really be just a historical reference.
In general I would like to see the libwin32@perl.org mailing list to be
used as a general venue to discuss Win32::* module development issues.
Please let me know any feedback, objections, whatever.
Cheers,
-Jan
