On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:54:08 -0500 (EST), Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > > H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > > > I cannot let you have a peek at the files that make the base of > > > Configure. There's almost 900 of them, in a special depot, to which only > > > few have access > > > > It would be interesting to release them somewhere publicly (just in case > > some fools could be interested :) be it by dropping a tarball on CPAN or > > by setting up an svn mirror. > > Oh there's no objection to releasing them publicly -- they aren't secret > at all -- it's just tedious to "take a peek" and rarely that useful. > > For example, the metaconfig units for perl versions 5.003, 5.004, and > 5.005 have all been available for many years on CPAN under my id (ANDYD). > I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who have > contacted me about them, and still have fingers left over :-). > > It's just never seemed that worthwhile to set up any more complex public > distribution scheme since it'd be so rarely used. PAUSE just accepted mc_units-20050201.tbz to be mirrored to .../$CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/mc_units-20050201.tbz on a CPAN mirror close to you soon. Enjoy, Have FUN! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.3, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0 pro 2.4.21 & Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: [email protected], perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
