PERSON
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Jarkko Hietaniemi (CPAN ID:
JHI) is a Finnish software engineer, creator and "self-appointed Master Librarian" of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and former Perl 5 Pumpking (release manager for Perl 5.8). Connection to
chat2.pland CPAN- In the mid-1990s, Jarkko and Andreas König bootstrapped and synchronized the global CPAN mirror network using Lee McLoughlin's
mirrorpackage, which ran onftp.pland mychat2.pllibrary under the hood. - Nine years after [Person/Larry Wall]] silently added
lib/chat2.plto the Perl 4 core distribution, Jarkko was the release manager who finally removed it on May 15, 2000 at my request (perl5-porters, commit [50f338d87d), recording me as the commit author with the commit message:"Delete chat2 as requested by Randal."See The 35-Year Story of chat.pl and chat2.pl.
- In the mid-1990s, Jarkko and Andreas König bootstrapped and synchronized the global CPAN mirror network using Lee McLoughlin's
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These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.