Re: supporting older perls

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Matheson
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Re: supporting older perls

2007-02-24 Thread Greg Matheson
Here's a message I sent to cpan-testers, but with the volume of reports to that list, I doubt anyone on it has time left from deleting the messages to respond. I got one failure with 5.6.2 and passes with 5.8. The problem appears to be the constant pragma, which doesn't seem to have an

installing scripts: just do it, check, or let them do it?

2007-01-22 Thread Greg Matheson
I am debating whether to just install some scripts when users install my modules from CPAN. I can't see many of the installations being by people who want to work with the modules rather than the scripts. But what if they have an executable of the same name that is clobbered by one of my