Subject: Re: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:17:35 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The main problem is that the cperl-mode code's maintainership has some
> problems (poor communication and some disagreements between Ilya and the
> Emacs team).

Note that there does not seem to have been an upstream release for ~ 4+
years, AFAICS. The traditional upstream location is 403 today, but
exists in search engines caches.
A braver man than I has already forked it some years ago;
https://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode

(I'm not volunteering to do anything! :) )