But WHY?? Isn't the Frontier module meant to take over the gory details for me? Can somebody give me a good reason for not writing a fork with this bug(?) fixed?

Why? probably because the author didn't think of it, and given the bug page he is no longer actively maintaining the module.

I would consider contacting the author to see if he would like to transfer maintainership of the module, in which case you can fix the other bugs listed against the module. Failing that, write a wrapper to work around the bug.

You may also want to read the CPAN FAQ entitled How do I go about maintaining a module when the author is unresponsive?.

In reply to Re: Strange behaviour in Frontier::Client (scalars vs. hashes) by clinton
in thread Strange behaviour in Frontier::Client (scalars vs. hashes) by isync

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