Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:20:00PM -0700, chromatic wrote: >> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:10:55 David Cantrell wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:23:31PM -0700, chromatic wrote: >> >> > > I already know that my distributions don't work if you don't install the >> > > dependencies >> > >> > I'm pretty damned sure that this a straw man. Can you point at any >> > regular tester who *right now* is regularly failing to follow the >> > dependency chain? >> >> http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/37201 >> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/08/msg2029059.html >> >> Please note that I don't care *why* this occurred. > > But you're willing to shoot down cpan-testers just because they're the > messenger! Thanks. > > The problem is CPANPLUS trying to be backward compatible. I suggest you > take this up on the cpanplus mailing list.
So, isn't the "messenger" sending the message to the wrong guy? If the problem is CPANPLUS, send the message to the CPANPLUS maintainers instead and report it as a FAIL for CPANPLUS! Eirik -- "One of the problems with Java is that they swept a bit too much of the innate complexity of life under the carpet of the libraries. And so now they've had to replace the carpets several times." -- Larry Wall
