Re: [MacPerl-Modules] Module modification questions

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 2:37 PM -0800 11/22/00, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>   I am new to this list in general, so I apologize for asking 
>questions asked before.
>
>   I am using a perl module XML::Dumper that has some bugs and is 
>really in need of an update.  However, I haven't gotten and 
>responses from the original author so he won't make the changes. 
>I'd like to make them myself, but I don't know how to incorporate 
>them in cpan.
>
>   If anyone has an process documents or links on this I'd love to see them.
>
>   I'd like to:
>
>Modify the code
>Rev the version
>And repost to CPAN.
>
>   Of course, I'd put notes in the author sections showing it came 
>from the original author and I modified etc etc.

It's very difficult to do without the original author's cooperation. 
You can upload whatever you like to your own CPAN directory, but 
module names are "owned", so your version of the module won't get 
indexed.  People won't easily be able to find it.

>
>   Does anyone know anything about this?
>
>Thanks,
>-Andrew
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