Hi Steve, > I don't know of anyone actively using Pixie anymore, I'm OK to drop support > for it & archive the distribution. > > I've CC'd James at his home address as he no longer works at Joyent.
Thanks. James: are you also happy for Pixie to be dropped from CPAN? Cheers, Neil > > Cheers, > -Steve > > > On 21 Jan 2017 10:26 a.m., "Neil Bowers" <neil.bow...@cogendo.com > <mailto:neil.bow...@cogendo.com>> wrote: > Hi James, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through tidying up permissions > conflicts that have been caused by the fact that PAUSE now consider package > names case insensitively (due to case-insensitive filesystems, as on Windows > and MacOS X). PAUSE doesn’t let these situations occur now, but we have some > historical cases. I’m sorting these out so that we don’t need code in the > toolchain for dealing with permissions conflicts. > > Your Pixie distribution (last released in 2003) uses both a Pixie module and > a PIXIE package. These are different packages, but from a permissions point > of view PAUSE now considers them the same. > > To resolve this conflict, you would need to rename the internal PIXIE package. > > Another option: I notice that Pixie doesn’t work on any version of Perl > released in the last 11 years: > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Pixie > <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Pixie> > So if you’re not interested in maintaining this now, we could drop all your > permissions and delete the Pixie release from your CPAN author directory. I’m > happy to do that for you, if you’d like? > > I’ve copied Steve Purkis (SPURKIS), as I notice that he has co-maint on these > names, and did 2 developer releases of Pixie in 2004. > > Cheers, > Neil > Cogendo T: +44 7880 741899 W: www.cogendo.com M: neil.bow...@cogendo.com <mailto:neil.bow...@cogendo.com> Cogendo is the trading name of Cogendo Limited, Registered in England & Wales, company no. 8944534. Registered office: Cedar House, Glade Road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. SL7 1DQ.
