Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-27 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 15:10:56 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > Thanks! I'll probably first talk to the guy about it, as others > suggested, though. I've got this response: "There is nothing to uphold. It is a request with no force. It's also no longer relevant." So I'll probably change t

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 22:58:41 +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > ok, thank you. This is mentioned nowhere, however, and it's a lot less > > automatic than a CPAN-based download could be. > > But it does have other advantages that a

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 24.01.2009 at 19:53:07 +0100, Simon Bertrang > wrote: > > Just set CPAN_AUTHOR to the authors id. Look at cpan.port.mk or grep > > through other Perl ports also using this variable. > > ok, thank you. This is me

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 12:37:14 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009/01/26 12:10, Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, 24.01.2009 at 19:53:07 +0100, Simon Bertrang > > wrote: > > > Just set CPAN_AUTHOR to the authors id. Look at cpan.port.mk or grep > > > through other Perl ports also usin

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009/01/26 12:10, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sat, 24.01.2009 at 19:53:07 +0100, Simon Bertrang > wrote: > > Just set CPAN_AUTHOR to the authors id. Look at cpan.port.mk or grep > > through other Perl ports also using this variable. > > ok, thank you. This is mentioned nowhere, however, port-m

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Shockley
On 1/26/2009 6:10 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: Yes. The joys of cut&paste... In any case, I'm a bit undecided about what that license actually is. The terms are somehwere between BSD and beerware, from my perspective, but he ask something much larger than a beer. From the looks of idiom.com, they've

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 24.01.2009 at 19:53:07 +0100, Simon Bertrang wrote: > Just set CPAN_AUTHOR to the authors id. Look at cpan.port.mk or grep > through other Perl ports also using this variable. ok, thank you. This is mentioned nowhere, however, and it's a lot less automatic than a CPAN-based downloa

Re: CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-24 Thread Simon Bertrang
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Hi, > > while still wrestling with the perlbal port, I've found that there is > no way to download this package from CPAN with 'make fetch' because > this results in attempts to fetch .../by-module/... . After nagging > quite a lot

CPAN fetcher broken?

2009-01-23 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, while still wrestling with the perlbal port, I've found that there is no way to download this package from CPAN with 'make fetch' because this results in attempts to fetch .../by-module/... . After nagging quite a lot of people, Andreas J. Koenig from mind.de finally answered an email of mine