* Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> [2009-02-19 00:10]: > By the way, in my experience a lot of other CPAN distributions > have the same issue; especially commonly omitted dependencies > include modules that are included in some versions of "core" > perl.
That situation is trickier because various CPAN clients used to be buggy in such way that they would try to download and install a newer perl from CPAN if you happened to depend on something that had become a core module at some point, or you depended on a newer version of a core module than installed. Those bugs have been fixed, of course, but machines with old versions of CPAN.pm still exist out there… so this is not an easy decision, unfortunately. > Perhaps this is a sign of that these things should be more > prominently documented in depth somewhere where people are > likely to find the info? Yeah, I definitely think this is not known widely enough. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
