Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-02 Thread demerphq
On 31 December 2012 19:38, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Jan Dubois j...@activestate.com wrote: Mostly I would prohibit sharing of directories between Perl installations, and even within a single installation, the sharing of directories between

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2012-12-17 Thread demerphq
On 17 December 2012 01:53, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote: On 2012.12.16 11:57 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote: I can agree with all of that. Actually, starting a discussion about this was on my todo-list for the last QA hackathon but I didn't get around to it. Ideally, it should replace

Re: error creating 'BUILD' script

2009-09-23 Thread demerphq
2009/9/23 John Peacock john.peac...@havurah-software.org: Andreas J. Koenig wrote: % perl -le 'print 100_200_300' 100200300 I'm sure we had this before but IMO a single underscore rule violates the principle of least surprise. But that's not what the module had: perl -le print

Re: version-0.77 and You

2009-07-16 Thread demerphq
2009/7/15 David Golden xda...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Gisle Aasgi...@activestate.com wrote: We obviously disagree about what makes code readable. Let me rephrase -- I think putting use version last means it's more likely that someone will inadvertently leave it off.  

Re: ExtUtils::Install dependency

2009-02-09 Thread demerphq
2009/2/9 Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com: Michael G Schwern wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from David Golden # on Sunday 08 February 2009 08:21: I strongly encourage Module::Build to require/use the latest EUI. If there are any backcompat problems that arise from doing so please let me

Re: ExtUtils::Install dependency

2009-02-08 Thread demerphq
2009/2/8 Zefram zef...@fysh.org: M:B declares an unversioned dependency on ExtUtils::Install. There is a bug in EU:I 0.29 that causes a M:B fakeinstall to be insufficiently fake: it actually creates the libdir and the directory to contain the packlist. This shows up in the M:B test suite, if

Re: Proposed patch: try harder to delete files on Win32 before giving up and dying

2009-01-15 Thread demerphq
2009/1/15 Adam Kennedy adamkennedybac...@gmail.com: Looks fine, although personally I'd... sleep $i; ... and maybe ... $self-log_info(Couldn't remove '$_'; trying . (5 - $i) . more times\n); Adam K 2009/1/15 David Golden xda...@gmail.com: Based on the thread about my file deletion

Re: [PATCH] Update Module::Build to 0.31 from CPAN

2009-01-07 Thread demerphq
2009/1/7 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:05:59AM -0500, David Golden wrote: I think the problem is that porters are patching M::B in blead instead of in the M::B upstream repository, so as M::B development moves forward, the two sources drift out of sync. The haiku

Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

2008-11-13 Thread demerphq
2008/9/30 Andreas J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:40:09 +0200, Jos I. Boumans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And so I have implemented it now. If it breaks too much in too short time, we could probably revert it, but first I'd like to see how bad we really do. I agree

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-27 Thread demerphq
On 28/02/2008, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry -- just catching up on this thread. { $dir-local_chdir(); ...do your stuff... } but that's probably out of my ken.

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-18 Thread demerphq
On 29/01/2008, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s in the test suite and thought this might be a good way to keep

Re: distgen enhancements

2008-02-18 Thread demerphq
On 18/02/2008, demerphq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi Ken, I noticed some traffic in the commits and realized I had this stale patch laying around. I see there are still quite a few chdir()s

Re: Can't call method ur. Module::Build V 0.2808

2008-01-04 Thread demerphq
On 03/01/2008, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Savage wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 02:49 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: Hi Michael What's the actual command you're running here? Thanx for making the effort to respond. The 'command' was ur! What happened was

Re: Adding a perl_version key to META.yml

2007-11-24 Thread demerphq
On Nov 19, 2007 10:35 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Golden wrote: On Nov 18, 2007 9:27 PM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Golden wrote: So, yes, it was a crappy design decision/hack, but now we're stuck with it. That's the complete solution.

Re: [rt.cpan.org #20528] Module-Build installs into wrong location with bleadperl

2007-10-16 Thread demerphq
On 10/16/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Williams wrote: On Oct 15, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Eric Wilhelm wrote: Hi all, Steve is proposing that we add the following parameter to Build.PL installdirs = ($] = 5.009004 ? 'core' : 'site'),

Re: [rt.cpan.org #20528] Module-Build installs into wrong location with bleadperl

2007-10-16 Thread demerphq
On 10/16/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demerphq wrote: Of course, the real problem is our default @INC order is backwards. It should be site, vendor, core not core, site, vendor. Isnt the reason security? Although I am surprised that vendor is after site. How does

Re: [rt.cpan.org #20528] Module-Build installs into wrong location with bleadperl

2007-10-16 Thread demerphq
On 10/16/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demerphq wrote: On 10/16/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demerphq wrote: Of course, the real problem is our default @INC order is backwards. It should be site, vendor, core not core, site, vendor. Isnt the reason

Re: Error message 'Global symbol $VAR1 requires explicit package name' with newer M::B

2007-09-26 Thread demerphq
On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demerphq wrote: On 12/5/06, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote: Is it likely that this occurs with CPANTS in the first place? Unfortuna- tely, CPANTS doesn't tell the Data

Re: Error message 'Global symbol $VAR1 requires explicit package name' with newer M::B

2007-09-26 Thread demerphq
On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: demerphq wrote: If that's the case, perhaps the docs for Terse could use stronger language. Right now it's a little obtuse. · $Data::Dumper::Terse or $OBJ−Terse([NEWVAL]) When set, Data::Dumper will emit single, non‐self

Re: Error message 'Global symbol $VAR1 requires explicit package name' with newer M::B

2007-09-25 Thread demerphq
On 12/5/06, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote: Is it likely that this occurs with CPANTS in the first place? Unfortuna- tely, CPANTS doesn't tell the Data::Dumper version it is using... :-( I looked at the three failure reports you

Re: [PATCH] Module::Build::Compat should support 'perl' as a prerequisite

2007-07-23 Thread demerphq
On 7/23/07, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/23/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you suggeting that ExtUtils::MakeMaker go into Bundle::CPAN? That's a very good idea. While we're at it, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Command and ExtUtils::Manifest.

Re: ExtUtils::Install 1.41_04 uploaded to CPAN

2007-07-07 Thread demerphq
On 7/7/07, Craig Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/07, demerphq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Id really appreciate it if people could test it out and get back to me with issues if they have any. Looks good with blead on VMS: $ mmk test MCR dsa0:[craig.perl]ndbgperl.exe -I[.lib] -MExtUtils

Re: ExtUtils::Install 1.41_04 uploaded to CPAN

2007-07-07 Thread demerphq
On 7/7/07, Jerry D. Hedden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Id really appreciate it if people could test it out and get back to me with issues if they have any. Works with [EMAIL PROTECTED] under Cygwin Perl. Thanks. Was that a make test or a test/install/install-something-else as well? yves --

Re: version-0.7201 patch

2007-04-16 Thread demerphq
On 4/16/07, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Especially now since you mention version::Math, an ordinary module in a pragma's namespace? Original issue aside, I think there is an assumption that we can add new functionality that is pragma related

Re: When Module::Build is a core module...

2006-06-20 Thread demerphq
On 6/20/06, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Ron Savage wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:32:10 +0200, demerphq wrote: Hi demerphq Nope. If you upgrade it should go in to site/lib, meaning you have to use UNINST=1 if you upgrade. Are you sure it'll go