Moin, On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:22, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Tels wrote: > > Moin, [snip] > Actually, that it worked on your system was intended behaviour. The bug > that was introduced meant that installation failed only for authors > (that is, that had Module::Install installed on their local system) and > only if their installed version differed from the one bundled. > > Yes, I fucked up. But it's hardly a "showstopper".
For someone who wanted to install a module bundled with the borked M::I it was a showstopper since it didn't build. :) (But if I read that correctly, it would only fail for people having a different M::I installed than the one bundled) > It only caused problems for authors. Although that was a little > unfortunate given that Catalyst users seem to now all be authors by > definition, it meant normal end-users shouldn't have been effected (I > think). > > Module::Install was broken for less than a week, and only for authors. Actually it worked for me (the author) and broke for jpo (one of my "users" aka beta-tester). But that seems to be splitting hairs :) OTOH, you have to _install_ the latest version of M::I to bundle it with the module, and *this* means you cannot ever test that your bundled module works corectly except by trying it on a clean system (and a system with another M::I installed). This increases complexity quite a bit (complaint A below). > Any author who upgrades to the just uploaded 0.60 will be fixed now. Which was one of my two concerns (listed below again :) A: M::I increases the size and complexity of a distibution (aka it can break, needs more testing) B when it breaks, end-users cannot fix the problem for themselves, they need to bug the author and he has to release a new version. (Good luck with that with sparsely maintained modules...) Whether this design really "works" in reality is, well, not known yet. Anyway, thanx for your work Adam, M::I makes some things easier as EU::MM and Module::Build, so it is one more tool in our author's toolset. I agree with your that "Havoc" is a too strong word for that little problem. Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sat Mar 11 10:10:58 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. I'm a Wei-wei-wei-wei-wei-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wow-wizzzaahrd...
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