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From:
"G.W. Haywood" via perl5-porters
Date:
March 1, 2023 07:53
Subject:
Re: Deprecation doesn't mean we have two release cycles beforethings break.
Message ID:
3ea8879a-93e1-a62c-e6bc-905c5f8cfac@jubileegroup.co.uk
Hi there,

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Karen Etheridge wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:01 AM G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote:
>
>>
>> ... because of my pathological aversion
>> to github (and github's aversion to my browser), I simply won't do it.
>
> Why not? Why can't you do:
>
>    git clone https://github.com/Perl/perl5.git

Can you remember ADSL?

I *can* do it, but I won't.  Last time I supplied a ten-character
patch to the documentation for an open source project (ClamAV) for
example, to do it I had to transfer about 20 megabytes of data.  I
could have done the same thing with a 500 byte email in a fraction of
the time, but there's no facility to do that.  It's insane.

> What does your browser have to do with anything?

Just that if I want to use it to look at anything that's been going on
in a project, either I get a message telling me to, er, update to a
supported browser (a euphemism, it means junk the one I'm used to and
get another one) or at best a little twirly thing.  It's like a whole
planet has completely forgotten the point of HTML.  And don't get me
started on the bowdlerization of patches by text-to-HTML conversion.
</rant:you did ask>

-- 

73,
Ged.
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