RE: Toolchain issues

2010-05-04 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 04 May 2010, brian d foy wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: > > I don't manage the Windows side. I was more annoyed that > ExtUtils::Installed would try to delete a file, notice that it failed, > then try to work around it's inability to delete the file. It failed

Re: Toolchain issues

2010-05-04 Thread brian d foy
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: >> That feature of ExtUtils::Installed caused many headaches for me on >> Windows and a lot of pain for some Windows admins. Apparently a normal > Really? All it should take it putting an inheritable "deny" ACL for > "Delete Subfolders and Files"

RE: Toolchain issues

2010-05-04 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 04 May 2010, brian d foy wrote: > > David Golden wrote: > > This is actually a problem with ExtUtils::Install, I think. The same > > problem exists on Windows, but EU::I uses a Win32 call to schedule the > > file for deletion on reboot before replacing it with a new one. > > That featu

Re: Toolchain issues

2010-05-04 Thread brian d foy
In article , David Golden wrote: > Quick thoughts: > > > 2. ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build - Serious! > > > >   HP-UX, and probably other OS's too, do not allow installation of > >   shared objects when the object already exists and is in use. That > >   means that all XS modules used

Re: Toolchain issues

2010-04-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:42:28 +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" > said: >For some reasons I need Date-Manip-5.xx instead of the parallel >developed version -6.xx. By time-stamp, -5.xx may even be newer >cpan SBECK/Date-Manip-5.56.tar.gz >works fine, but if you do that ag

Re: Toolchain issues

2010-04-29 Thread David Golden
Quick thoughts: > 2. ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build - Serious! > >   HP-UX, and probably other OS's too, do not allow installation of >   shared objects when the object already exists and is in use. That >   means that all XS modules used by CPAN cannot be installed by CPAN. This is actual

Toolchain issues

2010-04-28 Thread H.Merijn Brand
I picked some e-mail addresses of people I /think/ might be interested. If you are not, apologies. Just disregard this mail. Almost finished all my HP-UX 5.12.0 depot's. Took 5 whole days! I don't know what parts of the toolchain are `to blame', but here I go 1. Definitely CPAN For some reas