Just a devil's advocate question. Why wouldn't you put the 3.03 requirement in the Makefile.pl just to keep people who don't read the docs from messing everything up?
Regards, KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:05 AM Subject: [Mimedefang] New MIME-tools release > Hi, all. > > I've released MIME::Tools 5.413 to CPAN, and it's also available from: > > http://www.mimedefang.org/static/mime-tools.php > > This version includes all the patches in our RP-PATCHED version, plus > a whole bunch of other bug-fixes and patches from other MIME-tools users. > > Please note that this release *requires* MIME::Base64 version 3.03 or > newer. If you're running a Linux distro, upgrading MIME::Base64 > separately can cause problems with up2date and similar tools, which > will get upset because the perl package will have been modified. > > The upcoming MIMEDefang 2.45 release will have a fix for this. In the > meantime, you can install MIME::Base64 as follows: > > perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site > make > make install > > which installs the module in your "site" directory rather than the > core Perl directory. > > Unfortunately, because of terminal brain-damage, Perl puts the core > directory before the site directory in the include path, so you have > to do this near the top of mimedefang.pl to get it to work: > > use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3'; > > where you replace '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3' with your site directory. > > This lets you use a new version of MIME::Base64 without upsetting your > distro's package-management tools. > > As the maintainer of MIME-tools, I'm probably abandoning the 6.x-ALPHA > series. Development will most likely continue from 5.413. > > Regards, > > David. > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
