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List:       perl5-porters
Subject:    Re: One less File::Copy bug
From:       "Joshua ben Jore" <twists () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-05-01 4:46:15
Message-ID: dc5c751d0804302146u4cf79fe8h315f570fbc821cc () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> writes:
>
>  > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:18:12PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>  > > I'm surprised how long it took us to make such an easy fix.
>  >
>  > I remember offering many years ago to fix this, but then it wasn't
>  > deemed a bug - it was 'documented' to behave like this.
>  >
>  > And I'm offering to fix the permission bit issues, unless we're too
>  > afraid it will break existing code. (Someone, somewhere, is probably
>  > relying in File::Copy dropping the execution bit).
>
>  Wouldn't it be better to provide a new, incompatible but less
>  surprising version of File::Copy next to the old one?
>
>  Or even, make it dual-faced depending on the version required?

No, if a user didn't want this bug fixed, they shouldn't be upgrading
perl or its libraries. Far better to fix this one in place.

Josh
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