On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Is there a sane reason for wanting to include this? > > > > For perl 5.10 and later you have the given/when statement which does > > the same in a much less fragile way. Please don't write new code using > > Switch.pm module. > > > > At least add a big warning in the description that this is a obsolete > > module and using given/when with perl 5.10 is very much prefered. > > I think the rationale about packaging this separately is that one > which is discussed by Nico Tyni in http://bugs.debian.org/580034
Yes, and I should have referenced that in the ITPs, sorry. I realise that these modules are likely to be less useful given that they're being taken out of core, but they may still be needed. In fact I plan to survey packages depending on perl in order to find out the scope of usage; if it's very low and packages can be fixed, maybe we can avoid packaging them all separately. Peter, thanks for the feedback. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
