----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Hunt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Perldl] Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and
PDL::Graphics::PLplot
Hi all: I just uploaded a new version (4.13) of PDL::NetCDF with changes
suggested by Sisyphus, Robert Ginko and kmx. None of these seem to have
helped with the cpan shell. It still shows:
I thought kmx might have nailed the problem - if not the solution, too.
(Seemed a likely good guess to me, as soon as I read it.)
I know of another module on CPAN that has a pd file instead of a pm file -
namely John Cerney's PDL::IO::HDF5.
I get exactly the same failure trying to 'cpan -i' it:
##############################
Going to write \.cpan\Metadata
Running install for module 'PDL::IO::HDF5'
The module PDL::IO::HDF5 isn't available on CPAN.
Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
more about the status. Try 'i PDL::IO::HDF5'.
##############################
If it were me, I would be tempted to try something ghastly - like maybe
include (and list in the MANIFEST) a NetCDF.pm with the distro that looks
like:
package PDL::NetCDF;
1;
(And amend the Makefile.PL so that it deletes that NetCDF.pm as soon as it
starts up ... or just have the Makefile.PL print a message that "This
version of PDL::NetCDF is intentionally broken ... please install a
different version", and exit 0.)
If that enables 'cpan -i' to download the package then you know for sure
that kmx was on the right track.
And if it doesn't enable a 'cpan -i' to download the package, then we can be
fairly sure it's something else.
I think it's worth finding out.
(There's possibly a cleverer way of going about conducting that test ... but
I don't claim to be clever :-)
Cheers,
Rob
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