On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:26:00PM +0000, actnicsoftware wrote:
> > I was wondering if I could take over maintenance of Device::SerialPort?
>
> CPAN allows "dual" or "team" maintainers. I am one of a group who maintain
> the MARC:: series of modules. I have no objection to you becoming
> co-maintainer, or even primary. But I would like to be able to keep the
> unix and Windows versions mostly compatible. Which means keeping the
> ability to post an update. So I don't want to completely exit the
> maintainer category. It might take Andreas Koenig to create the "team" (it
> did before).
Oh good! I didn't really want to have to take over the
win32-compatibility testing on devser. I've never even installed win32
perl. :)
> I just got FreeBSD to go with linux and Windows. But I don't have those
> others to test (and I believe you).
> NOTE TO CPAN MAINTAINERS: Kees and I have had quite a bit of
> correspondence over the last year concerning his porting efforts.
>
> We did a multi-maintainer Copyright notice for MARC:: and ControlX10::, so
> I know that is acceptable for CPAN use.
>
> I don't see any obvious problems with the patch...looks good to me
> (without extensive testing as I am again on_the_road).
Bill: how about setting up a sourceforge project for devser? That way we
can keep things current with CVS, etc.
Do your changes for FreeBSD clash with what I did for Solaris, Aix, and
OpenBSD?
And, I wasn't sure what to do with the documentation, since you wrote
almost all of it. I've just added a few notes here and there.
--
Kees Cook @outflux.net
