# from David Cantrell
# on Monday 22 October 2007 08:48:
>And if the build process had a create a Makefile.PL for you, then in
> my opinion it's pretty important to let you know about that if it
> causes problems. It shows that the module wasn't properly packaged,
> for some definition of properl
On Monday 22 October 2007 09:50:42 Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> This is a specific sort of failure, and as far as I'm concerned it is an
> improperly configured machine. I'm not going to include a redundant
> Makefile.PL just to support people who don't upgrade their tools. It's
> no different than not
quot; instructions particularly clear,
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/10/msg688382.html
Rock: I believe the automagic Makefile.PL bug is only in CPANPLUS.
Unfortunately, even the current version seems to still have it.
Hard place: The (old) CPAN.pm default was to prefer Makefile.P
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:50:42AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Cantrell
> >And if the build process had a create a Makefile.PL for you, then in
> > my opinion it's pretty important to let you know about that if it
> > causes problems. It shows that the module wasn't properly packaged,
# from David Cantrell
# on Monday 22 October 2007 09:58:
>> This is a specific sort of failure, and as far as I'm concerned it
>> is an improperly configured machine.
>
>How is it improperly configured?
It is ignoring Build.PL (and the requirement for Module::Build in the
META.yml (and the instr
chromatic wrote:
>> This is a specific sort of failure, and as far as I'm concerned it is an
>> improperly configured machine. I'm not going to include a redundant
>> Makefile.PL just to support people who don't upgrade their tools. It's
>> no different than not supporting perl 5.005.
I believe
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:52:47AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Cantrell
> # on Monday 22 October 2007 09:58:
> >> This is a specific sort of failure, and as far as I'm concerned it
> >> is an improperly configured machine.
> >How is it improperly configured?
> It is ignoring Build.PL
# from David Cantrell
# on Monday 22 October 2007 12:50:
>> then "inventing" a
>> Makefile.PL and trying to run that.
>
>Given the above ubiquitous bug in Build.PL, and that Module::Build can
>be a real pain in the arse to get working properly,
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