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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:25:32 -0400

>> 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

Let me put it some other way:

If/when someone is willing and able to take over maintenance of
cperl-mode (starting with cleaning up the Emacs-19-style-code-cruft),
then I might consider switching the default to cperl-mode.

But it might be easier to start from perl-mode and add cperl-mode chunks
to it.

        Stefan