Suggestion regarding verbage in Canary::Stability

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Sun Mar 13 04:37:09 CET 2016


On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:18:06PM +1300, Kent Fredric <kentfredric at gmail.com> wrote:
> My interpretation of it is as follows, and a person I revealed this
> interpretation to suggested you might find it accurate enough to
> integrate something along similar lines:

I'll upload a new version of Stability::Canary within the next few
minutes. I have used most of your text as a guideline. It now prepends
this text all the time - if that doesn't fix the concern, I'd be happy for
more input (changing the module is cheap).

*** Hi!
***
*** I do my best to provide predictable and reliable software.
***
*** However, in recent releases, P5P (who maintain perl) have been
*** introducing regressions that are sometimes subtle and at other times
*** catastrophic, often for personal preferences with little or no concern
*** for existing code, most notably CPAN.
***
*** For this reason, it has become very hard for me to maintain the level
*** of reliability and support I have committed myself to in the past, at
*** least with some perl versions: I simply can't keep up working around new
*** bugs or gratituous incompatibilities, and in turn you might suffer from
*** unanticipated problems.
***
*** Therefore I have introduced a support and compatibility check, the results
*** of which follow below, together with a FAQ and some recommendations.
***
*** This check is just to let you know that there might be a risk, so you can
*** make judgement calls on how to proceed - it will not keep the module from
*** installing or working.

Greetings,

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