> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Oct 05 08:06:14 2003]: > > CPAN.pm (invoked as cpan in the command shell) reports a permission > problem trying to move a directory. The trouble is that CPAN.pm is using > the rename() function, which in Win32 can change a file's name but not > move it from one directory to another. A convenient solution is for > CPAN.pm to use File::Copy::move() instead. CPAN.pm already has a "use" > statement for File::Copy anyway.
In all the discussion about the behavior of rename() on Win32 the original point of this bug was lost. CPAN.pm is still riddled with rename() calls.
