Show-stopping Bug in Module::Install and the Havoc it Created

2006-03-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! We had a discussion here about the pros and cons of using Module::Install with use inc::Module::Install in the Makefile.PL, and bundling it along. Well, now a showstopping bug happened in Module::Install and several modules that included the affected version suffered:

Re: Show-stopping Bug in Module::Install and the Havoc it Created

2006-03-10 Thread Tels
Moin, On Friday 10 March 2006 12:26, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! We had a discussion here about the pros and cons of using Module::Install with use inc::Module::Install in the Makefile.PL, and bundling it along. Well, now a showstopping bug happened in Module::Install and several modules

Re: Show-stopping Bug in Module::Install and the Havoc it Created

2006-03-10 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 13:36:26 +0100, Tels wrote: So the bug might not affect everyone - but it is bad and makes me re-consider using Module::Install only when necessary. Module::Install makes sense for applications and deployment and all that For regular CPAN modules I think it's

Re: What is the Value of t/0-signature.t?

2006-03-10 Thread Audrey Tang
Yuval Kogman wrote: The problem with these is that Module::Signature fails when it should warn if the key is not present in the user's keyring. If this technical issue is solved then regardless of whether or not signature tests are useless (i think they are, but then again i also think i

Re: Show-stopping Bug in Module::Install and the Havoc it Created

2006-03-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
Tels wrote: Moin, On Friday 10 March 2006 12:26, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! We had a discussion here about the pros and cons of using Module::Install with use inc::Module::Install in the Makefile.PL, and bundling it along. Well, now a showstopping bug happened in Module::Install and several