Mon Mar 09 14:10:03 2009: Request 43889 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by kwittr...@web.de
Queue: Win32-Clipboard
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #43889] Win32::Clipboard::GetText() doesn't
convert newlines
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: kwittr...@web.de
Status: open
Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43889 >
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Luebkert via RT" <bug-win32-clipbo...@rt.cpan.org>
To: <kwittr...@web.de>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #43889] Win32::Clipboard::GetText() doesn't convert
newlines
<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43889 >
> K. Wittrock via RT wrote:
>>
>> Perl developers are often anxious about backward compatibility. Ok, go ahead.
>
> Go ahead and what ? I'm not the maintainer - just another user.
>
> All I'm saying is that the maintainer should document the newline behavior
> and possibly make an addition as you requested for an option to convert
> them.
Sorry, I wasn't aware of this. I got your email in response to my error report,
so I assumed it came from the maintainer. Did you
pass your suggestion to CPAN somehow, so it can be seen by the real maintainer?
I don't know how to do this, I'm not very familiar
with CPAN.
What i wanted to say in my last reply is that backward compatibility should be
weighted against other concerns such as comfort, ease
of use, consistancy. I feel that backward compatibility sometimes causes
confusing complexity in Perl. Maintainers should not only
consider the past, but also the future.
Kind regards
Klaus Wittrock
