Re: Removing CPAN's dependency on Test::More

2002-11-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:32:21AM +1100, Ken Williams wrote: > So why does CPAN.pm depend on Test::More anyway? It only uses > it during its 'make test' phase, not during runtime operations. > And when you can't install modules very easily because you don't > have CPAN.pm working properly, it's

Removing CPAN's dependency on Test::More

2002-11-12 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, Twice recently, I've just been through the task of upgrading CPAN.pm from 1.59_54 to 1.63 on a solaris system because something about MD5 was broken enough that no modules could be installed. It took a long time to do manually, because of the dependency on Test::More, which depends on Te