* Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 18:35]: > But the FAIL is record in the wrong place.
Anyone with a CPAN toolchain older than the most recent bleeding edge version or with a couple-months-old tar binary (ie. everyone except a number of people indistinguishable from zero) will still encounter the problem. Your distribution is not backward compatible with only-barely-outdated software. That, IMO, is a legitimate flaw in your distribution: current users with non-ancient system configurations will actually encounter this problem. I would certainly suggest that you re-release with a comment-less tarball. So the FAIL did ding the right place. The inadequacy of Testers in this case is that there weren’t *enough* FAILs to go around to account for all the problems that your incident uncovered. Without manual investigation, this might have gone undetected for quite a while longer. But the FAIL did fail to point out the true source of the problem. And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm’s logic that if there is no Makefile.PL, it is a sane idea to make one up out of whole cloth. I can’t believe anyone would think this could ever *ever* work, though Andreas does not strike me as the type to put harebrained heuristical magic in code. So I have to wonder what the justification for this behaviour might be. Is it really necessary or even helpful? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
