>>>>> On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:35:37 -0700, "Joshua ben Jore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
> On 5/22/07, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There's a problem with that: if you don't have a Makefile.PL, and >> someone's running an old CPAN that expects a Makefile.PL to be there, >> it'll try creating a Makefile.PL and fail badly, with no helpful >> message for the user. Old CPANs think that "no Makefile.PL" means >> "no installer", so it tries to create an installer. > Wow. I had no idea. I'm not sure what you mean by "old CPAN.pm" but > its true for everything up to whatever comes with perl 5.8.8 and > perhaps also 5.9.5. Bleadperl has always included uptodate CPAN.pm. But when 5.8.8 came out the support for Module::Build in CPAN.pm was hardly tested and so I could not recommend to Nicholas to include a newer version. > The CPAN.pm I have with my 5.9.5 isn't installing anything right > now. It works for me and I have no pending bugreports. I suppose your Config is broken. -- andreas
