On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:23:05AM +0000, Edward Avis wrote: > We should decide what facilities are wanted. Probably some of: > > - - Install > - - Uninstall > - - Clean upgrade
I'll leave that all up to you folks to figure out. It hurts my brane. > perllocal.pod I can accept, there may be some users who like to get a > list of installed packages with 'man perllocal'. And it is part of > perl5 so should be kept up to date. But what is the backwards > compatibility reason for packlists? Because people might be using them for something. Alan went through the trouble of writing a whole module to deal with them, so it must be important for somebody. MakeMaker is so centrally important to Perl and so old and there's so much undocumented lore surrounding it that you've got to be reeeally careful about what you change else something really important somewhere might blow up. I've already found this out a number of times in the relationship between CPAN and MakeMaker. > >Ask Alan Burlison maybe? (ExtUtils::Packlist author). > > Maybe he reads this list. Doubt it. Email him and ask questions. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One grep { ref and ref !~ /^[A-Z]+$/ } kill 9, @ARGV;
