On 05/28/01 Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> > got a cpan problem for you. there are now two gtkperl distributions with
> > two different maintainers. K/KJ/KJALB/Gtk-Perl-0.7000.tar.gz and
> > L/LU/LUPUS/Gtk-Perl-0.7006.tar.gz. - 0.7006 claims to deprecate all other
> > versions. the problem is that 'install Gtk' gets you 0.7000, but if you
> > try and install one of the other Gtk modules, you can get either 0.7000 or
> > 0.7006.
>
> Well, CPAN does not allow takeover of namespaces without
> communication.
>
> I believe Ken is unreachable. Can I get some kind of approval that the
> takeover of maintainance is coordinated? Paolo, what's the status of
> the takeover. Is it intended to be permanent or temporary?
Well, the story goes like this: from about January 2000 I started
making the releases for Gtk-Perl and Kenneth kindly uploaded the files
to CPAN. After a while I didn't get any feedback from Kenneth and
registerd with PAUSE and started making the uploads myself.
I think that at some point CPAN.pm started using the tarballs in
my homedir, but it looks like now it's back to Kenneth's: I don't
know what changed meanwhile.
Anyway, if Kenneth doesn't speak up for himself, I think he is not
against me handling the Gtk-Perl namespace for the time being:
for what I know I hasn't worked on the Gtk module since 1999.
And yes, 0.7006 is so much better than 0.7000 that you want it anyway.
lupus
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