So Ssleay, Pipe, Perl and Mird are gone from 7.7. Was decided upon through a very enlightened consensus, I'm sure. Could we outsiders get a rundown on the rationale behind this too?
It was proposed a quarter or so ago on this mailing list and the absence of objections since is some form of consensus. Why now? Marcus Comstedt reminded me a few days ago asking if we should execute the proposal anytime soon, so I did.
Don't they work at all?
I don't know.
Commit messages talk about removing from "standard Pike". Are they going to appear somewhere else?
They are available in CVS and should be moved to the modules tree in SVN. It's free for anyone to put releases in Monger of course.
I'd like to thank Marek for being so responsive to my mails about reduced dependencies for the Debian package.