Re: What is the current state of installing DateTime?
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:34:16PM -0700, Ron Pero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will ask ActiveState about a better version of the DateTime module for their repository. You can look at what their automated build came up with at: http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-D.html (5.8 builds for modules beginning with D). Looking at the failure for windows, you see: failed building DateTime prerequisite DateTime-Locale aborting build of DateTime: failed prerequisites and DateTime-Locale fails because it uses a passthrough Makefile.PL that requires user interaction to download Module::Build. (Activestate's build process does check dependencies and would process Module::Build first if it were a listed as a dependency, but it's not.) This is a fundamental problem with passthrough or small compatibility Makefile.PLs, and an excellent reason to not use them.
Re: What is the current state of installing DateTime?
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: and DateTime-Locale fails because it uses a passthrough Makefile.PL that requires user interaction to download Module::Build. (Activestate's build process does check dependencies and would process Module::Build first if it were a listed as a dependency, but it's not.) This is a fundamental problem with passthrough or small compatibility Makefile.PLs, and an excellent reason to not use them. They could just install Module::Build once on their machines and be done with this problem! I did nag an ActiveState person about this at OSCON and he said that someone was working on re(writing|factoring) the auto-PPM tool. -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com ===*/
Re: What is the current state of installing DateTime?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:56:07AM -0500, Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: and DateTime-Locale fails because it uses a passthrough Makefile.PL that requires user interaction to download Module::Build. (Activestate's build process does check dependencies and would process Module::Build first if it were a listed as a dependency, but it's not.) This is a fundamental problem with passthrough or small compatibility Makefile.PLs, and an excellent reason to not use them. They could just install Module::Build once on their machines and be done with this problem! AFAICT, they do each build in a clean environment with only those modules that are listed as dependencies installed. And the ExtUtils::MakeMaker Way of Doing Things is that Makefile.PL has to be run *first* and then dependencies be checked. This makes non-traditional compatibility Makefile.PL's something of a joke, since there is no way for them to be compatible under automated build tools. I did nag an ActiveState person about this at OSCON and he said that someone was working on re(writing|factoring) the auto-PPM tool. One thing you can do is add build_requires: Module::Build to META.yml. Don't know if their tool even checks this file, but it seems to me incorrect to not have it listed.
Install problems: Can't call method set_time_zone on an undefined value
This is on Debian sid and some DateTime packages are installed via the deibian package system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep libdatetime ii libdatetime-format-pg-perl 0.07-1 ii libdatetime-format-strptime-perl1.04-1 ii libdatetime-locale-perl 0.09-2 ii libdatetime-perl0.22-1 ii libdatetime-timezone-perl 0.28-1 (well, strptime and pg I build a .deb with dh-make-perl) But some are not packaged and I'm trying to install via CPAN or manually. I'm getting stuck with DateTime::Event::Recurrence (a requirement for ::ICal): bumby:~/.cpan/build/DateTime-Event-Recurrence-0.13# perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch t/05set.t 1..9 ok 1 - next union ok 2 - next union ok 3 - next union ok 4 - next union ok 5 - next intersection Can't call method set_time_zone on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/DateTime/Set.pm line 55. # Looks like you planned 9 tests but only ran 5. # Looks like your test died just after 5. bumby:~/.cpan/build/DateTime-Event-Recurrence-0.13# fgrep 'VERSION =' /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/DateTime/Set.pm $VERSION = '0.1603'; Anyone seen this? Suggestions for debugging? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
