[OT] Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Who is the point of contact for AS on this issue? -J -- On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Not that I'm blaming DateTime; there's plenty of blame to go around. ActiveState is to blame for (as rumor has it) having someone maybe sometime complete

[OT] Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, John Peacock wrote: Module::Build already has it's own way to tell about dependencies but afaik no one uses it except CPANPLUS. And what is worse is that the Module::Build dependencies are treated as /suggestions/, and will not throw an error if one is not met. I just got a c

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread John Peacock
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Module::Build already has it's own way to tell about dependencies but afaik no one uses it except CPANPLUS. And what is worse is that the Module::Build dependencies are treated as /suggestions/, and will not throw an error if one is not met. I just got a cpantester

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:48:19AM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Clearly the easiest for AS is to simple install Module::Build and its > dependencies before trying to build PPMs. Agreed. But IIRC it has no non-core dependencies. > >What's the way forward in all this? I don't know. I do know tha

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Not that I'm blaming DateTime; there's plenty of blame to go around. ActiveState is to blame for (as rumor has it) having someone maybe sometime completely rewrite their build scripts, instead of just quickly addressing this deficiency. DateTime i

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:32:39PM -0600, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > >Has anyone that is a win32/activeperl user complained to Activestate > >that they are not providing a DateTime PPM? I assume that DateTime is > >still working on win

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-01 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
That is goofy... has anyone opened a trouble ticket on this or complained directly? -J -- On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: Has anyone that is a win32/activeperl user complained to Activestate that they are not providing a DateTime PPM? I assume that

Re: Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: Has anyone that is a win32/activeperl user complained to Activestate that they are not providing a DateTime PPM? I assume that DateTime is still working on win32 but the PPM status page shows that DT 0.22 is failing to build on _all_ platforms. It's cau

Activestate PPMs for DateTime?

2004-11-01 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Has anyone that is a win32/activeperl user complained to Activestate that they are not providing a DateTime PPM? I assume that DateTime is still working on win32 but the PPM status page shows that DT 0.22 is failing to build on _all_ platforms. -J -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: S