Perl
Math-Complex: fix syntax error in example
@pjacklam, thank you for your continued efforts in maintaining Math-Complex.
Since this library is "CPAN upstream," we usually expect the maintainer(s) of such libraries to do revisions upstream and make a new CPAN release. After that point, someone who has a commit bit to the core distribution runs the program Porting/sync-with-cpan, which handles merging the updated CPAN library into core.
Hence, I'm a bit surprised to see this p.r., as well as https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20120 and https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20121, as it suggests you want to do revisions to Math-Complex in the core distribution first, rather than after a CPAN release (which, among other things, would generate valuable CPANtesters results).
Can you clarify?
Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
@pjacklam, thank you for your continued efforts in maintaining Math-Complex.
Since this library is "CPAN upstream," we usually expect the maintainer(s) of such libraries to do revisions upstream and make a new CPAN release. After that point, someone who has a commit bit to the core distribution runs the program
Porting/sync-with-cpan, which handles merging the updated CPAN library into core.
Hmm, I see that Math-Complex is indeed maintained upstream on CPAN, but that its last CPAN release was in 2012, done by someone who is no longer (to the best of my knowledge), and does not have a listed repository. So how we should proceed in this is unclear. @rjbs, @book, @leonerd, do you have thoughts about this?
I have contacted the maintainers of Math-Complex several times though the years asking for co-maint, so I can release new versions of the Math-Complex distribution, but have I never received any reply. I contacted a PAUSE admin to ask for co-maint, but was told to contact the maintainers, which, as I mentioned, I had already done several times without success. So I gave up.
I noticed that the Math-Complex version in core Perl is 1.59_02, newer than the one on CPAN, so I thought I might contribute though pull requests to core Perl. While I know this is not the right way to develop a module that has CPAN as upstream, I don't know how else to do it.
I have contacted the maintainers of Math-Complex several times though the years asking for co-maint, so I can release new versions of the Math-Complex distribution, but have I never received any reply. I contacted a PAUSE admin to ask for co-maint, but was told to contact the maintainers, which, as I mentioned, I had already done several times without success. So I gave up.
I noticed that the Math-Complex version in core Perl is 1.59_02, newer than the one on CPAN, so I thought I might contribute though pull requests to core Perl. While I know this is not the right way to develop a module that has CPAN as upstream, I don't know how else to do it.
Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I suspect the Perl Steering Council and PAUSE administrators will have to discuss this. (That, however, should not keep you from continuing to work on these p.r.s.)
Math-Complex is now maintained in dist/ rather than cpan/. Handled manually in 17f4c42e6e. Closing.