On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Joshua ben Jore <twi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> FWIW, even the most up-to-date CPAN.pm comes broken out of the box for >> configure_requires because we say we prefer the YAML module to read >> the configure_requires out of $whatever.yml and don't fail-over to use >> the thing that's actually packaged with perl. > > That's incorrect. CPAN.pm prefers Parse::CPAN::Meta and will attempt > to parse with it. If it's not available (or the parse fails), it will > fall-back to the CPAN-defined preferred YAML module. > > Parse::CPAN::Meta is read-only and CPAN's preferred YAML module is so > that it can write (and read back) data as it processes things.
What? That's certainly not what happens for me. I just ensured I had no ~/.cpan or ~/perl5, installed perlbrew, then installed new perl-5.12.1. When I ran the newly created cpan client, my default `o conf yaml_module' is YAML and not Parse::CPAN::Meta. I just tried requesting an upgrade to CPAN and my client is already up to date (1.94_56). Josh
