On 20/04/11 23:17, Peter Edwards wrote:
Imagine you're supporting a 3 year old code base that needs specific
versions of DBIx::Class, Catalyst, Moose and Class::MOP to make it run, and
when you do a upgrade via yum or apt-get or cpan random things break in your
regression tests and you don't hav
* Dirk Koopman (d...@tobit.co.uk) [110421 08:08]:
> On 20/04/11 23:17, Peter Edwards wrote:
> >Imagine you're supporting a 3 year old code base that needs specific
> >versions of DBIx::Class, Catalyst, Moose and Class::MOP to make it run, and
> >when you do a upgrade via yum or apt-get or cpan rand
On 21/04/2011 09:26, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> CPAN was never made to maintain software. It is made to distribute
> software. When you upload something to it, there is no warning that
> you will become responsible for its future.
And this, folks, is precisely why I use Drupal these days.
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > He's embarrassed that didn't think to run "apt-get install
> > libnet-twitter-perl"?
>
> That doesn't work so well on a vanilla OS X box. Whcih is what his
> workstation is.
That's not a perl fail but rather a fail on the part of those
On 21/04/2011, at 7:08 PM, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>>> He's embarrassed that didn't think to run "apt-get install
>>> libnet-twitter-perl"?
>>
>> That doesn't work so well on a vanilla OS X box. Whcih is what his
>> workstation is.
>
> Th
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On 21/04/2011 09:26, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>> CPAN was never made to maintain software. It is made to distribute
>> software. When you upload something to it, there is no warning that
>> you will become responsible for its future.
>
> And this
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > There is a toolchain bug. Perl's toolchain can't find XCode.
> Is it really the responsibility of the perl toolchain to do that?
Yes.
FWIW, it has managed to find XCode ju
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:26:45AM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> As demonstration of cpan6, I have created a full backpan archive, where
> you can get the 02packages of any day in history. So you can then say
> "install DBIx::Simple with the knowledge of 2001-02-12 as yum"
> Large parts of the cod
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:26 +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> As demonstration of cpan6, I have created a full backpan archive, where
> you can get the 02packages of any day in history. So you can then say
> "install DBIx::Simple with the knowledge of 2001-02-12 as yum"
That sounds really useful!
s
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:33:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > > There is a toolchain bug. Perl's toolchain can't find XCode.
> > Is it really the responsibility of
Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1 is out! Please test it with your work
code for any showstoppers.
Leon
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From: Jesse Vincent
Date: 20 April 2011 13:52
Subject: Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1
To: perl5-port...@perl.org
But then Australia is such a di
On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:37, Denny wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:26 +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>> As demonstration of cpan6, I have created a full backpan archive, where
>> you can get the 02packages of any day in history. So you can then say
>> "install DBIx::Simple with the knowledge of 2001-
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:35 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:22:20PM +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
>
>> If (as recently happened) you discover a dependency chain that leads
>> to CPAN complaining that you need a newer perl because it's a core
>> module ... it gets extra annoyi
* Dave Hodgkinson (daveh...@gmail.com) [110421 12:13]:
> >> "install DBIx::Simple with the knowledge of 2001-02-12 as yum"
> Isn't CPAN on Time Machine?
No.
But we have backpan, where all the modules ever uploaded are kept.
The main problem is that the administration 02packages (etc) files which
On 23 March 2011 12:43, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:32:11PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>> On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:16, David Cantrell wrote:
>> > IME it's the norm for large employers. Even at smaller employers my
>> > experience is that that's generally what it says in the
On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:52, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Jamie swears that it's a vanilla vendor Perl on a new 10.6.7 box with
> XCode 4. Someone spotted it trying to use the _ppc_ compiler at some
> point during the build. I don't currently have suitable test hardware
> to try to repro it on. :/
Could
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