Mon Oct 08 11:12:30 2012: Request 80062 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by SHAY
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Over-zealous disabling of --info (and no disabling of --icon)
Broken in: 1.013
Severity: Important
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: s...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80062 >
I've recently updated a perl installation from PAR::Packer 1.008 to
1.013 and am surprised and disappointed to find that the -N option to pp
no longer works for setting ProductVersion/FileVersion. It spits out a
warning saying "--info is currently broken, disabling it...", and yet
this used to work fine.
With 1.008:
D:\temp>pp -o hello.exe -N ProductVersion=1.2.3.4 hello.pl
D:\temp>hello.exe
Hello, world.
(and ProductVersion is correctly set)
With 1.013:
D:\temp>pp -o hello.exe -N ProductVersion=1.2.3.4 hello.pl
C:\perl\bin/pp: --info is currently broken, disabling it at
C:/perl/site/lib/PAR/Packer.pm line 1177, <DATA> line 1.
I see the BIG FAT WARNING in the ChangeLog file, but has this been done
wrongly? I've personally never had any trouble setting
ProductVersion/FileVersion fields, so it seems a great shame to disable
all --info fields just because some don't get set; it was (and still is)
setting the --icon file which corrupts the executable, and yet that
option isn't disabled...
I think --icon should be disabled since it always corrupts the
executable, and --info should perhaps just emit a warning rather than
disable the option, or at least only disable it when setting more than
ProductVersion/FileVersion if other fields really don't work.
Right now, I've simply lost functionality which used to work, and indeed
still does if I delete the option-disabling code.
