On 7/19/06, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steffen Mueller wrote:
> If people using the most widespread Win32 Perl distribution can't
> install 450 modules (without the chain of failing dependencies), that's
> a qa nightmare, IMO.
People running the most widespread Win32 Perl distribution can't install
way more than 450 modules anyway because of dependency problems and
non-portable code (and test-suites):
http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8.html
One broken M::I version is just a blip.
<shameless_plug>
* Strawberry Perl alpha 1 needs Win32 testers.
* Download it at http://vanillaperl.com/
* File bugs on RT for fun and <strike>profit</strike>
* Laugh at code that gets its slashes wrong
Thats a strange one, how often is this really a problem on win32? I
cant think of many times when thats been a problem.
More problematic in my experience is code that assumes that you can
unlink an open file, or code that assumes that its always possible to
get a relative path from directory A to directory B, or code that
throws away the volume designator in file spec, or code that assumes
that ':' is a good path seperator... (such a pity
File::Spec->path($pathlikestring) doesnt work)...
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
