On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was told it was a planned feature when KWILLIAMS turned up on london.pm > > and yelled "FUD" because I was complaining about users' problems in the > > real world rather than the problems of an ideal user that somehow magically > > knows that Module::Build is special and they have to remember to update it > > or installations will inexplicably fail. > > Can you show us that thread or a specific bug?
The london.pm archive is searchable; I was complaining about now-fixed bugs that were still in the wild anyway - a response of "these are now fixed but it -is- a shame there's no easy way to force an update" would have been fine, I only took exception to having "FUD" yelled at me when I still encounter these problems regularly when supporting clients and OOS users. > Autobundling of M::B is indeed a planned feature. It's my personal > top priority. But we wanted to get "all the rest" of the work that's > been done in the last 1.5 years out the door before tackling it. And > autobundling is a nice special kind of feature that specifically > doesn't have to be tied to a major release schedule, so as long as we > get it out the door in a small amount of calendar time, people should > be happy. That's absolutely and perfectly logical, and I look forward to seeing it on CPAN. KWILLIAMS++ -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/