On Jul 17, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
On 7/17/2004 11:36 AM, James Keenan wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but ...
What is the 'default phone-home behavior' in the Makefile.PL's about which Randal was complaining?
Is it the author's 'Perlish' coding style, in which he places statement-ending semicolons at the start of the line? Or something else?
The behavior in question is that the Makefile.Pl will check to see if LWP is installed, and if it is try to contact the author's website to see if there is a more recent version of the module and if so to notify the user. I guess the main "problem" with this is that it does so without giving the user a choice.
The author appears to have corrected this problem and to have deleted older versions of the modules from CPAN. In http://search.cpan.org/src/DOMIZIO/IO-Util-1.26/Makefile.PL, he writes: "Note: While I did removed the "phone home opt-out only logic" from all my distributions since 2004-24-06, the related ratings have not been removed so far. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Which raises the question: If a CPAN module author responds to a CPAN tester's remarks and fixes the relevant problem, would it be possible (my having the reviewer write a second review, perhaps, or by other means) to have that noted on the module's test rating page?
jimk
