Re: IPC::Run accepts bug reports

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 01:56:46PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> > Separating this from the pytest thread:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > The one
> > > thing I know about that *I* think is a pretty big problem about Perl
> > > is that IPC::Run is not really maintained.
> >
> > I don't see in https://github.com/cpan-authors/IPC-Run/issues anything
> > affecting PostgreSQL. If you know of IPC::Run defects, please report them.
> > If I knew of an IPC::Run defect affecting PostgreSQL, I likely would work on
> > it before absurdity like https://github.com/cpan-authors/IPC-Run/issues/175
> > NetBSD-10-specific behavior coping.
>
> I'm not concerned about any specific open issue; my concern is about
> the health of that project. https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::Run says
> that this module is seeking new maintainers, and it looks like the
> people listed as current maintainers are mostly inactive. Instead,
> you're fixing stuff. That's great, but we ideally want PostgreSQL's
> dependencies to be things that are used widely enough that we don't
> end up maintaining them ourselves.

That's reasonable to want.

> I apologize if my comment came across as disparaging your efforts;
> that was not my intent.

It did not come across as disparaging.