Re: Class::Singleton 1.03 bug fixed but can't contact author. What to do?


"Craig Manley" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I patched Class::Singleton because when objects were being stored in an
instance of it, their destructors weren't being
called when Perl terminates. Also incorporated is a CVS tag patch so that
a "cvs export -kv" doesn't cause syntax errors.
Unfortunately the author (Andy Wardley http://www.andywardley.com/) hasn't
replied to any of my emails and it's been 2 weeks
already.

For an alternative address, see the "AUTHOR" section of the module's
documentation. (No guarantee that will find him, either :-)

So what should I do in such a situation? I think quite a lot of people use
this class and perhaps some of them can
benefit from the patch.

This module has not been updated in nearly 8 years - there's a good chance
it has been abandoned.
The following is copy'n'pasted from a post by xdg at
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=489185:

"If the author can be contacted and is willing to transfer, they can
transfer ownership by changing permissions at PAUSE . If the module has been
abandoned and the author cannot be contacted, emailing modules@xxxxxxxx
about taking over maintenance and transfering permissions is right the way
to get started. "

Other than that, you could always create your own version of the module (in
a different namespace) that incorporates your patch(es).

I would also submit a bug report to
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Class-Singleton that
includes the patch you provided - as others might find it useful (and
rt.cpan.org is the first place they ought to check).

Cheers,
Rob



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