Re: libcoro-perl and 5.22
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:22:26PM +0000, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 20:46 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:19:48 +0000, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> >
> > > I just wondered whether there had been any further discussions[1] on
> > > libcoro-perl, or whether the intention is still for it to be removed
> > > with 5.22?
> > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787500
> >
> > I _think_ we brought up this point in some IRC meeting later again
> > but with no new information or no changed outlook.
>
> Sorry, I missed the IRC. It's probably already been discussed, but is
> there any mileage in patching perl itself to support Coro? I don't know
> the full details, but from the little I've seen, this is indeed
> possible, if not desirable. It seems to a shame to lose such a powerful
> module from the whole distribution.
Upstream has provided his own patch to perl (called stableperl) but
that isn't something we can reasonably apply in Debian. I think it's
fair to stay that there is a bit of an impasse here but I'm not going
to attempt to paraphrase the history - asking google about
"coro perl stableperl" provides quite a few relevant references.
Suffice it to say that I think the chances of this being fixed in Debian
when it is not fixed with official Coro + perl releases are vanishingly
small.
Best,
Dominic.
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