> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:24:34 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> That is different than a tarball though. Does the script installation
> have to be given up in order to eliminate the ambiguous behavior in the
> case of a dist tarball?
Good point. I can probably limit it
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:57:20 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned
>> in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm’s
>> logic that if there is no Makefile.PL, it is a sane idea to make
>> one up out of whole
# from Andreas J. Koenig
# on Wednesday 03 September 2008 13:11:
>And when you ask the CPAN shell to install
>ANDK/keepcool-0.344 you'll probably be surprised that this *script*
>installs just fine.
>
> % head /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/keepcool-0.344
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> =hea
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 20:00]:
> I've been told that it is intended for tarballs made in the
> times when there was no such thing as Makefile.PL yet.
The cure seems worse than the disease at this point in time then.
Maybe the heuristic in CPAN.pm could be just a little mor
# from Aristotle Pagaltzis
# on Wednesday 03 September 2008 10:38:
>But the FAIL did fail to point out the true source of the
>problem. And IMO this hints at a real problem that was mentioned
>in this thread, but was not really indicted: namely CPAN.pm’s
>logic that if there is no Makefile.PL, it
# from David Cantrell
# on Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:23:
> Seeing that there's no
>Makefile.PL in that directory, it creates one for you, and then
>everything goes pear-shaped because that Makefile.PL doesn't list any
>dependencies.
Would putting "everything goes pear-shaped" in the report tit
# from Gabor Szabo
# on Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:42:
>> I'm pretty damned sure that this a straw man. Can you point at any
>> regular tester who *right now* is regularly failing to follow the
>> dependency chain?
>
>actually both my recent modules get tons of FAIL reports as they only
> have
