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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:38:28 +0400
From:      Andrej Zverev <az@freebsd.org>
To:        Tom Hukins <tom@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-perl@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: announcement of future perl changes.
Message-ID:  <CAD5bB%2BhYifjBky17tMBk9JXJsicQWNCc2mVyaj94tuLmbittEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130611151127.GD35400@eborcom.com>
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Tom Hukins <tom@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:48:14PM +0400, Andrej Zverev wrote:
> > Second we are trying to modify directory structures where are perl being
> > installed.
> > Current directory structure look in this way:
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/{PERL_VERSION}
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/{PERL_VERSION}
> > where PERL_VERSION consists of [major].[minor].[patchlevel].
>
> I apologise for my late reply, but please don't do this.  If you think
> this approach has merit, please argue its case on perl5-porters
> instead of subtly forking perl5 in FreeBSD's ports collection,
> violating POLA.
>
I'm sorry but I don't get idea at all. Why do i need argue on
perl5-ports? and I don't see how I'm trying to violate POLA.
Can you explain in more details, please?


> Indeed, the Porter's Handbook discourages you from doing as you
> propose:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-freedback.html
>
> Perl5 is actively developed in the open.  If you think you have a good
> idea that benefits perl, please discuss your idea with the Perl5
> maintainers so that other operating systems, and FreeBSD users who
> don't use ports/packages can benefit from your work.
>
Same here as above.

>
> Tom
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