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[ This message is resent on behalf of David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
-- justin ]
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:08 PM, Stas Bekman wrote:
> If an old mod_perl 1.0 is installed and it overrides Apache::Test,
> Makefile.PL will simply fail to satisfy the requirement of a specific
> version (because Apache::test's version is smaller than
> Apache::Test's).
Not sure I follow you here. CPAN.pm checks for such dependencies, but
Makefile.PL, AFAIK, does not. And CPANPLUS doesn't work right, FWIW,
because Apache::test has no version number at all, which CPANPLUS
(mistakenly) assumes means that it's up to date.
> However taking again this track of overriding test.pm, we may still
> have a problem in the following situation:
>
> root installs mod_perl 1.27 system-wide, user installs Apache::Test
> locally (can't unlink Apache/test.pm), this can be a problem if user's
> @INC are added after the system-wide ones. But that would be silly,
> isn't it?
Most likely, yes.
> If we are sticking with this track, we need to figure out the way to
> make sure that Apache/test.pm is nuked. David, if Apache-Test includes
> Apache/test.pm and Apache/Test.pm is it ensured that any other
> occurance of Apache/test.pm will be nuked?
I think only if UNINST=1.
HTH,
David
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