Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:10:28 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: ijliao@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: math/p5-Math-Trig port -- unnecessary? Message-ID: <20030401121028.GA78452@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20030331210904.GA37851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20030331210904.GA37851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Dear porters, > > I noticed the presence of the math/p5-Math-Trig port containing > version 0.02 of the module, dating back to 1997. This was committed > to cvs about two months ago, which strikes me as kind of odd, as > Math::Trig is a standard module which has been bundled with the > default perl install for all perl5 releases since at least > perl-5.005_03. It's up to version 1.01 by now. Compare: > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JARW/Math-Trig-0.02/Trig.pm > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/Math/Trig.pm > > Seems a bit superfluous to me. Is there some specific reason for > having this port? I don't see one. The combination of Math::Trig and Math::Complex has more functionality than this one even in 5.005_03. I think this port should be retired. Cheers, \Anton. -- It's a short step from "rigor" to "rigor mortis". -- Chip Salzenberg
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