Steve Hay wrote: >> It also allows older versions of MakeMaker to work quietly with newer >> versions of dmake. Its much more likely that someone will be using a >> new dmake against an old MakeMaker. Few people upgrade MakeMaker but >> lots of Windows users grab a copy of dmake off CPAN to install Perl >> modules. > > I hadn't considered that, and now that I do I think you're right. > > So I've just written to the dmake guys suggesting that they either don't > bother with the new warning at all, or else relegate it to the status of > a "non-essential warning" which is only output when running in a verbose > mode.
That sounds like a very good idea, thank you. This is the sort of thing a developer might be interested in but end users will unlikely care. > Hopefully they'll be happy with that and the EU::MM patch won't be needed. Let them know if they add the warning I'll be happy to forward them every bug report I get on the subject. ;)
