On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:34:16PM -0700, Ron Pero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will ask ActiveState about a better version of the DateTime module for > their repository.
You can look at what their automated build came up with at: http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-D.html (5.8 builds for modules beginning with D). Looking at the failure for windows, you see: failed building DateTime prerequisite DateTime-Locale aborting build of DateTime: failed prerequisites and DateTime-Locale fails because it uses a passthrough Makefile.PL that requires user interaction to download Module::Build. (Activestate's build process does check dependencies and would process Module::Build first if it were a listed as a dependency, but it's not.) This is a fundamental problem with passthrough or small compatibility Makefile.PLs, and an excellent reason to not use them.
