On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:04:33AM -0500, "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >I see a real use for having a list to coordinate those contributing to > >development of libwin32, and would prefer that this not be tied to > >ActiveState (since I don't necessarily think this distribution will be > >maintained by ActiveState employees or users exclusively or forever). > >Does anyone have information on how to request a list on perl.org > >(since asking Ask doesn't seem to have worked)? > > I'm not sure there would be enough traffic to warrant a separate list. > There are already a lot of lists hosted on perl.org that are abandoned > or barely used. Look at the perl-win32-porters list, there are rarely > half a dozen posts in a month. P5P is not very busy these days; What > about keeping it here? Any discussions of OS specific extensions can be > prefaced with something like [$^O/ext] => [MSWin32/ext], [VMS/ext], etc.
I'm suggesting a list for development of the CPAN module (which should be usable for both cygwin and win32 perls), not OS specific extensions (though the Win32 module may be within the scope of the list.) Subscription to p5p shouldn't be a prerequisite for participating in this development.
