You are at least lucky that the modules are on CPAN. In the Win32 community we feel the loss of Amine Moulay Ramdane who wrote some exceptional modules for which the C/XS source code is not available. So all we need is for a Windows version to break the code and we have a real problem!

My feeling is that once an author places code in the public arena, then if they don't want or aren't able to maintain it, then they should be happy to see what they started getting a continued lease on life.

jdtoronto