On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:12:25PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Given that MakeMaker must work with older perls, and that File::Temp > has been added in perl 5.6.1, I'm not sure this is a wise change.
Well, maybe. And also using rename() is not quite safe this way... > > - preserve mode and timestamps > > I'm not sure either; MakeMaker tries to install with more-or-less standard > permissions, not with the permissions that come from the tarball. Well, it's not about permission, it's mostly about modification time. It is arguably wiser to keep modification time intact when fixing up that funny sharpbang line... so one can say how old actually her scripts are.
