Re: cpan, was Re: Reverting to 5.60

2003-11-12 Thread David Dierauer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Chris Devers wrote:

 I've been having quirks with both CPAN libraries though -- I installed
 readline support, and something didn't go quite right. Line wraps, for
 example, start one character to the left of the left edge of the window,
 with the first letter up a row  back -- very annoying. I was hoping that
 the Panter upgrade would make this go away, but it didn't seem to help.

 Has anyone else seen behavior like that? It's annoying, but not a huge
 impediment to getting things done, so I haven't brought it up before...

Yes, I've been seeing this behavior since 10.1 on 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.8.0,
5.8.1. Haven't had a chance to check it in Panther, though..

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David Dierauer
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cpan, was Re: Reverting to 5.60

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, gregg R Allen wrote:

 On Nov 9, 2003, at 5:01 AM, Ryan Hovey wrote:

  I went to 5.61 on OS X 10.1.5 and now am having troubles with the
  implementation of mod_perl on this machine. I tried recompiling
  mod_perl for 5.61 but am still having problems.
 
  Anyone know of an easy way to go back to 5.60 ??

 The latest version (Panther) is 10.1.3.

Or 10.3.1 even :-)

 I also tried to go back to Perl 5.6, and succeeded, by removing all the
 5.8 files and then downloading and recompiling 5.6, but the next time I
 visited CPAN, it did me the favor of upgrading to 5.8 without asking
 me.

That's a known bug with an old version of CPAN.pm. If you go into the CPAN
shell and do an install CPAN, it'll just upgrade the broken version. If
on the other hand you do install Bundle::CPAN, then it'll slurp up the
latest Perl version as well. Oops.

CPANPLUS seems to be a bit nicer anyway, and as far as I know it has never
had that bug.

I've been having quirks with both CPAN libraries though -- I installed
readline support, and something didn't go quite right. Line wraps, for
example, start one character to the left of the left edge of the window,
with the first letter up a row  back -- very annoying. I was hoping that
the Panter upgrade would make this go away, but it didn't seem to help.

Has anyone else seen behavior like that? It's annoying, but not a huge
impediment to getting things done, so I haven't brought it up before...



-- 
Chris Devers