Last month I sent this message to the perl5-porters mailing list. I got
no replies. Does anyone on this list have thoughts on this?
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Two recently filed RT tickets ...
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121829
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122596
... led me to look for the source code for ExtUtils::Installed and
ExtUtils::Packlist. They're part of the ExtUtils-Install distribution
which is distributed with core.
In the core distro, ExtUtils-Install is found under 'cpan/', which
suggests that it is *primarily* maintained on CPAN by one or more
maintainers, and not maintained by P5P.
However, when I go to
http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/ExtUtils-Install-1.68/, I see that this
distro's bug tracker is listed as http://rt.perl.org/rt3/ and its
repository is listed as http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/. In other
words, it's maintained in core not on cpan/.
If so, then shouldn't ExtUtils-Install be under 'dist/' rather than
'cpan/' in the core distribution?
From pod/perlsource.pod:
dist: "This directory is for dual-life modules where the blead source is
canonical."
I'd like to clarify this before embarking on work on either of the two
RTs cited above.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
