[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs perl, perldoc

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Jan 26 12:35:03 -0500 2011:

> > I will not do any extra work, ...

Peter: This isn't a helpful response in this case.

> then you're not doing your job properly as perl maintainer.

Phil: If you wonder why Peter isn't offering a helpful response, it's
because of comments like this.

> HOWEVER.... since Ben was nice enough to do Your Job For You, and

Phil: And this...

> that being said, the issue still merits either some kind of writeup in
> /opt/csw/share/doc/perl/README or something, with a warning about if
> users choose to use "-DPERL_MICRO".

I disagree with this.  The README's in the perl distribution
explicitly state that if this macro is enabled, you're to "submit
patches, not bug reports" or something similar.  It really is a
running with scissors type thing.  It doesn't get turned on by
accident and there is no use for it in a packaged distribution of
perl. No of the perl module builds will hit it by accident.  It would
take conscious effort.

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
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