On 08/15/2011 03:04 PM, Iain Arnell wrote: > 2011/8/15 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 08/13/2011 06:07 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >>> >>> Hi, Petr. >>> >>> I noticed yesterday that you had patched awstats to use if statements instead >>> of the switch module. The switch module is now back in Fedora (it was removed >>> from Perl core in 5.14 and is now a package in its own right) so feel free to >>> remove your patch, awstats should build fine without it. >>> >>> Emmanuel >>> >> >> Hello Emmanuel, >> I didn't package Switch module on purpose. Switch was removed from perl >> core, because it had a lot of bug reports. I suppose using if-else is >> safer. >> Switch was packaged last week by spot, so maintainers could use it, but >> they don't have to if they wish. >> > > Or use Perl's native switch syntax: given/when. See "Switch > statements" in perlsyn for details. > > Um, given/when have almost the same amount of bugs ;-) I'm not saying do not use new syntax. But as a maintainer of many packages I prefer older syntax. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
