[Catalyst] Re: old versions of Catalyst on CPAN

[Sebastian Riedel]

Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> Well, I hadn't heard of Catalyst at that time, so I didn't have much say in 
> the matter.

Maybe it would be more productive to let the developers that made the 
change answer then?

> That said, the reasoning for the name change, I believe, was 
> because there was a nice falling out between the people working on Catalyst, 
> you, and the PAUSE admins.  In order to ensure that the Catalyst Core Team 
> would continue to have the ability to update Catalyst without your 
> permission, which you refused to give, Catalyst had to be renamed (PAUSE 
> indexer technicality).If you had just turned over permission immediately 
> and irrevocably, then a rename wouldn't have been necessary.
>   

Thats completely untrue, the split (and renaming) happened in July,

    http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst/2006-July/008611.html

but the permissions were solved back in May.

    http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2006-May/007250.html

> In fact, the View::TT maintainership was never given to the Core Team, and 
> that's why TT has had that annoying "Coldn't render ... " bug for so long.  
> We wanted to fix it, but we didn't have Your Holy Permission to do so.
>   

View::TT was never part of the core dist (and in turn the agreement), 
why would i just give away all my Perl modules?
That bug you mention was caused by your changes to the Catalyst 
internals if i remember correctly...

> Details:
> http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2006-May/007250.html
>
> Anyway, I find it interesting that you have to ask me why the rename happened.  
> It seems from that thread and other evidence that you were slightly involved.  
> Hopefully this description refreshes your memory.
>   

If only you had read it...


P.S.: Do i get flamed because i mentioned in #catalyst that i'm using 
Ruby for now until Perl6 gets released? :(


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sebastian