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Id: 111550
Status: rejected
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Queue: Encode-Detective
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Requestors: NHORNE [...] cpan.org
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  Fri Jan 29 09:54:27 2016 NHORNE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Can't find on CPAN
Has is been removed?
  Fri Jan 29 14:44:33 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2016-01-29 09:54:27, NHORNE wrote: Show quoted text
> Has is been removed?
→ https://metacpan.org/release/BKB/Encode-Detective-0.06 Maybe the distribution needs to be reindexed.
  Fri Jan 29 14:44:34 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Jan 29 14:45:10 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2016-01-29 14:44:33, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> On 2016-01-29 09:54:27, NHORNE wrote:
> > Has is been removed?
> > → https://metacpan.org/release/BKB/Encode-Detective-0.06 > > Maybe the distribution needs to be reindexed.
No, this wouldn't help, because the latest one is on BackPAN.
  Fri Jan 29 16:49:22 2016 bkb [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Jan 29 09:54:27 2016, NHORNE wrote: Show quoted text
> Has is been removed?
Yes, Encode::Detective has been removed from CPAN. Encode::Detective is a fork of Encode::Detect, and the only change is a different method of compilation which I thought would work better, due to the number of test failures of Encode::Detect. In the end it no longer compiled even on my local computer due to C++ compiler changes, so the fork was a failure. Sorry about that.
  Fri Jan 29 19:42:26 2016 NHORNE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
That's a shame. OK, thanks, I'll try Encode::Detect::Detector.
  Fri Jan 29 20:28:25 2016 bkb [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Jan 29 19:42:26 2016, NHORNE wrote: Show quoted text
> That's a shame. OK, thanks, I'll try Encode::Detect::Detector. >
Compounding the problems with this distribution are that the underlying library from Mozilla was withdrawn, and the original data used to construct the library doesn't seem to be available publicly, so it's very hard to alter the code and be sure that it still works. The code still exists within Mozilla/FireFox, but it's no longer a separate library but integrated with other stuff.
  Fri Jan 29 20:38:43 2016 bkb [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Further to that, I put this list of tasks on the web related to Neil Bowers' 2016 CPAN Pull Request Challenge, which has an entry for Encode::Detective: http://www.lemoda.net/perl/cpan-prc-2016/#encode-detective-adopt-module I've linked that discussion back to here too.
  Fri Jan 20 18:53:03 2017 bkb [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'