* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-22 22:15]:
> Now that we know that Inline has this bug, and it has been
> reported to the author, it makes sense to do what we can to
> mitigate it when testing other peoples' code.

As long as you roll back the workaround after Inline is fixed,
fine.


* Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-22 23:15]:
> This here is one of possibly many errors at the distance. It's
> not clear why this one is special to be workarounded by either
> CPAN::Reporter, CPAN, or MakeMaker.

Exactly.

> Maybe it's enough if the author checks for a ~/_Inline
> directory in the Makefile.PL and exits with a warning message.

You mean the author of the distro with the failure? That seems
like the worst possible choice to get around the problem. If this
is a bug in Inline, it should be fixed in inline, not worked
around by everyone who depends on Inline independently.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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