Re: Why make up a Makefile.PL (was: Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments)

2008-09-03 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:16:35PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > There are handful of things on CPAN that are just zipped .pm files. I cpants says: cpants=> select extension,count(*) from dist group by extension ; extension | count ---+--- tar.gz| 14762 tgz | 241

Re: Why make up a Makefile.PL (was: Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments)

2008-09-03 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * BinTree >> * Counter > > Can't even find those. > >> * Apache::AuthenIMAP > > Last update: 2002. They may not be indexed on search.cpan.org, but they exist in the02packages.details.txt.gz file and they exist in act

Re: Why make up a Makefile.PL (was: Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments)

2008-09-03 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 21:20]: > Examples: > > * BinTree > * Counter Can’t even find those. > * Apache::AuthenIMAP Last update: 2002. > Just to be on the safe side, however, earlier today I committed > a patch to the CPAN trunk to bypass CPAN::Reporter entirely if > a M

Why make up a Makefile.PL (was: Re: git tarballs / tarfile comments)

2008-09-03 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the FAIL did fail to point out the true source of the > problem. And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned > in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm's > logic that if there is no M