Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread David Golden
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Smylers wrote: > Most of the information on that page is likely to be bewildering or > irrelevant to the user who's just stumbled upon the site, but it does > say mention that it's "a way to provide multi-platform testing for > modules" and provides "valuable feedb

Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Barr
On May 15, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Smylers wrote: Graham Barr writes: It is documented in ExtUtils::MakeMaker PMLIBDIRS Ref to array of subdirectories containing library files. Thanks. So for this modules it will scan lib/ and DWIW/ neither of which exist. It also scans . Having never tried

Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread Smylers
David Golden writes: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Smylers wrote: > > > That Perl has this QA thing which tells you which platforms a > > module will work on but that doesn't actually mean it'll install > > only adds to external perceptions of Perl being confusing and > > awkward.

Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread Smylers
Graham Barr writes: > It is documented in ExtUtils::MakeMaker > > PMLIBDIRS > Ref to array of subdirectories containing library files. Thanks. > So for this modules it will scan lib/ and DWIW/ neither of which > exist. It also scans . Having never tried to use a directory layout other than ./l

Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread David Golden
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Smylers wrote: >  That Perl has this QA thing which tells you which platforms a module >  will work on but that doesn't actually mean it'll install only adds to >  external perceptions of Perl being confusing and awkward. Of course CPAN Testers doesn't claim to c

Re: Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Barr
On May 15, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Smylers wrote: I recently encountered a Cpan module which doesn't install from its distribution yet passes all its tests, and I was wondering whether the glitch is a generic one which should be addressed. This particular module is not my concern (its maintainer res

Cpan Dist Layout Issue

2009-05-15 Thread Smylers
I recently encountered a Cpan module which doesn't install from its distribution yet passes all its tests, and I was wondering whether the glitch is a generic one which should be addressed. This particular module is not my concern (its maintainer responded speedily and is now looking at fixing it)