Re: Apache::Resource needs to be released seperately to the CPAN

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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Whomever is maintaining Apache::Resource needs to release a version to
> the CPAN greater than 1.72 that is *not* inside the mod_perl2 distro,
> because it's apparently also bundled inside the mod_perl2 distro, and
> this is a pain for those of us who do not wish to upgrade to mod_perl2
> just yet.
> 
> This is the same problem as when other formerly CPAN modules get
> incorporated into a later Perl distro.
> 
> Please either unincorporate it (and then cpan-delete 2.0.0-RC1),
> or release a separate version of it as well.

Sorry Randal, but this is a PAUSE+CPAN/CPANPLUS problem, not ours. I've 
spent a lot of time in the last 3 years warning about the problem, trying 
to push for a solution sending various proposals, but nothing was done.

Apache::Resource lives in mod_perl-1.x and mod_perl-2.x, and so do many 
other modules with the same names. So this is not a problem of 
Apache::Resource only.

This problem is different from perl-core + CPAN dual-life modules you are 
talking about. This problem is about foo-core-gen-1 + foo-core-gen-2 + ... 
+ foo-core-gen-N. This is a problem we have all seen with GD and a few 
other modules, when the same module name suddenly was requiring a 
different underlying environment (libgd in the case of GD). Noone cares to 
fix it so now a lot of people going to find this problem with mod_perl2 
being indexed by PAUSE.

If you are interested I can dig up the references to threads where those 
issues were discussed (mainly p5p) and feel free to push it for a 
solution. I've given up talking to walls.

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