Ken Williams wrote: > On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > Is it likely that this occurs with CPANTS in the first place? > > Unfortunately, CPANTS doesn't tell the Data::Dumper version it is > > using... :-( > > I looked at the three failure reports you referenced, and seeing as 2 > of them come from the same person, perhaps we could ask imacat what > version is installed? I just used 'svn annotate' to go *way* back in > the sources for M::B and I confirmed that we've been using "Terse" > dumping since this feature was introduced. > > Another idea I just had by looking at the Data::Dumper docs was that > maybe some funny refs are in the structure it's trying to write? It > says "$VARn names will be avoided where possible", and maybe in this > case it doesn't think it's possible. So we'd probably also need to > see the build_params file to diagnose that.
I haven't contacted imacat, but I got another user of my package to reproduce the problem. The Data::Dumper version he has installed is 2.121_08. I am attaching his build_params file that is failing. If you need anything else, just say the word.
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