--- Darek Dwornikowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using a module from CPAN, but it lacks some > functionality, so I added them. The problem is that there is no > contact > with author, I sent him emails twice (6months ago and 2weeks ago). A > guy > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (integral), adviced to write here.
Thoughts: 1. I can understand your not wanting to mention the name of the module, but we might be able to provide more help if we know it, particularly if someone on this list is aware of what happened. 2. You could fork the module on the CPAN (which means maintaining it, something you might not want to do). 3. You could fork the module for your company's internal use, which I know many programmers do. 4. You could tell us what functionality you added. I do know that some authors just won't respond to what they consider unimportant or bad requests (I'm not saying your changes are unimportant or bad; the author might just see them that way.) I might add that if a fork happens, many people might be happy to see the fork on the CPAN. The theory is that many people can benefit. However, that means you have to maintain it and that can be more trouble than it's worth. More than once I've begged people for patches, only to be ignored. Plenty of other authors have had the same experience. Maintaining modules can be frustrating. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
