Re: Merging two CPAN modules

2010-05-27 Thread Matt Grimm
Thanks to you both for your input. I don't think the modules are quite similar enough to warrant the effort of writing a "wrapper" class around YAML::AppConfig, but I definitely like the idea of documenting a migration path from the deprecated to the actively maintained module. m. On Thu, May 27

Re: Merging two CPAN modules

2010-05-27 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM, David Precious wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:44:58 Matt Grimm wrote: >> The question is, how do I go about "retiring" one module on CPAN once >> the merge is complete? I suppose the safest route might be to add a >> big comment at the top of the retired modul

Re: Merging two CPAN modules

2010-05-27 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:44:58 Matt Grimm wrote: > The question is, how do I go about "retiring" one module on CPAN once > the merge is complete? I suppose the safest route might be to add a > big comment at the top of the retired module's Pod to indicate that it > is no longer maintained and use

Merging two CPAN modules

2010-05-27 Thread Matt Grimm
Hello, I've recently become the maintainer of two very similar CPAN modules with the intention of merging them into a single module. The modules are Config::YAML and YAML::AppConfig. Both can be used to manage application configuration files in YAML, and both provide convenient "get_*" methods to