--- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:50:10 -0700 (PDT), DH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > It is not a bug in MakeMaker.
> > >
> >
> > You're confused.
> > The author currently has "IO-stringy" for NAME,
> > and thats where the .packlist ends up, in
> > perl\site\lib\auto\IO-stringy\.packlist
> > and this is a bug in MakeMaker.
> > MakeMaker should not allow that to happen.
> > It should yell at the author when he attempts to put in something
> > for NAME that cannot be a module name
> > and refuse to write a makefile.
>
> $ perl -wle '*{"IO-stringy::foo"} = sub { 42 }; print &{"IO-stringy::foo"}'
> 42
>
> I clearly acknowledge that I'm being a wise ass. :)
>
> I'll accept a patch that checks NAME and throws a warning if its not a
> valid package name like you'd type into "package".
>
Why can't you write the patch?
user report bug --> developer (intimate with his module) fix bug
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