On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:10:38 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > Thinking about upstream, I had another idea: If Email-Address is > > unmaintained on the CPAN, you could take it over (request co-maint) > > and then > > - change Email::Address to a wrapper around Email::Address::XS; > > - or remove the Email-Address distro and move the Email::Address > > module, again changed to a wrapper, into the Email-Address-XS > > distribution; > > - or, maybe least controversial, improve Email::Address to load > > Email::Address::XS if it's installed. In that case we could in > > Debian just add a dependency on libemail-address-xs-perl to > > libemail-address-perl. > > I had a discussion about Email::Address module and decision was to not > do such things as Email::Address is pure Perl module and > Email::Address::XS needs C compiler. There are lot of Perl systems where > C compiler is not available and there only pure Perl modules can be > installed/loaded.
I totally see this point; that's why I added my third proposal above
and marked it as least controversial ("use ::XS if it is available").
This would fix the issue in Debian, because here we can guarantee it
by a dependency, and it would at least improve the situation for
parts of rest of the world (the part which has a C compiler).
Cheers,
gregor
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