Hi Steve,
Back in February 2017 I emailed P5P about dropping the VMS::stdio shim (leaving
VMS::Stdio in place) and dropping the PAUSE indexing permissions on VMS::stdio,
leaving the permissions on VMS::Stdio in place:
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg242988.html
I submitted a patch for the change in July or August that year, and the first
stable release without VMS::stdio was 5.28. I then dropped the indexing
permissions on VMS::stdio.
PAUSE currently has a “feature” where if you release Foobar and later you
release foobar, you’ll end up with first-come permissions on both of them. This
meant that the permissions on VMS::stdio reappeared (see
https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/265) when a subsequent release of 5.26
(which still includes VMS::stdio) was made.
Andreas and Rik will shortly be releasing a change in PAUSE behaviour: if you
have first-come on foobar and then release Foobar, all permissions on foobar
(not just yours) will be changed to equivalent permissions on Foobar.
Ahead of that I’ve dropped all permissions on VMS::stdio again.
Ilmari said that there’s a chance there might be another 5.26.x release, and if
there were it would be done by you. Such a release would mean that the
VMS::Stdio permissions would get switched to being VMS::stdio until the next
5.28 release.
This probably won’t cause any problems anywhere in the toolchain, but if there
is (going to be) another 5.26 release, could you let me know please? :-)
Thanks,
Neil
