Re: No . in @INC breaks CPAN

2016-11-14 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Todd Rinaldo [2016-11-14 15:12]: > Long Term > > We need to fix the CPAN modules themselves. I’m afraid that’s a pipe dream. You can fix the most popular part of CPAN but not even close to everything. There are still distributions containing broken Module::Install versions,

Re: No . in @INC breaks CPAN

2016-11-14 Thread Karen Etheridge
> In this case, adding '.' to the distribution's Makefile.PL made no difference. I had to add "use lib ('.');" to Auxiliary.pm to enable it to locate 'eligible_chars', after which 'make test' PASSed. > Based on this example and several other failures, my hunch is that many of the failures which

Re: No . in @INC breaks CPAN

2016-11-14 Thread James E Keenan
On 11/14/2016 09:11 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > Howdy, > > I've done a write up of a recent change to blead perl. In the future it will no longer be possible to count on . being in @INC. This will break many of the existing CPAN installs. > > It was suggested I send the RFC here: > >