Re: What happened to Getopt::Std ?

On 06/13/2007 08:29 AM, John Peacock wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
>> I don't know what is going on. It smells like an attempt to compromise
>> people's systems, although it could be a mistake.
>
> Then maybe you should use Google or even look at the distro, before
> making wild accusations:
>
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/04/ms g123813.html
> http://search.cpan.org/src/TTY/kurila-0_02/README
>
> The Kurila project is a fork of Perl5 without the strict backwards
> compatibility required of v5.10.0, as a theoretical experiment. You'll
> note now that under CPAN, it shows up as
>
> ** UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE **
>
> which should make it highly unlikely that someone will install it by
> accident.
>
> John
>

mea culpa