On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:53:22AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
# from David Cantrell
Mmmm, more special cases. From a user's (ie, a module author's) point
of view, isn't it easier to remember exit(0) than to remember
exactly what message to spit out?
Easier to remember, maybe. But the
There are problems in the way that Module::Build interacts with
ActiveState Perl, those problems are:
- HTML generated with Module::Build is not conform
with the way HTML is generated by ActiveState /
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
- with Module::Build, ActiveState's Table of Contents
# from David Cantrell
# on Wednesday 06 January 2010 03:48:
Exiting with a 0 status would seem to be the least clunky solution.
exit(0) means Stop now and claim to have succeeded
But you didn't succeed because something's wrong and thus on the way out
you must mention to the poor user what that
It has been a while (I admit) since I logged into PAUSE.
I don't remember the password I used all that time ago and the forgotten
password system seems to send the reminder email into the ether.
Is anyone able to check where my email may be going please (perhaps to a
defunct email address).
* Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com [2010-01-06 18:15]:
But you didn't succeed because something's wrong
The Makefile is not missing because the program crashed before
it managed to generate one. It is missing because the program
successfully determined that installation cannot proceed. The
