Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Kennedy
But I'm not really too worried any more, the CamelPack means it's much easier not to just install from source than use the PPM system. s/not/now/ sigh Adam K

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Offer Kaye
On 2/6/06, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > But I'm not really too worried any more, the CamelPack means it's much > > easier not to just install from source than use the PPM system. > > s/not/now/ > Installing from souce == compiling every module that needs it... How is that *easier* than installing a p

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Offer Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-06 09:15]: >Installing from souce == compiling every module that needs it... >How is that *easier* than installing a pre-compiled package? You don’t need sit there turning a crank while the compiler does its job. Does it take longer? Sure. Is it harder? No

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Smylers
Offer Kaye writes: > On 2/5/06, Offer Kaye wrote: > > > [http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-windows/windows-5.8/Scalar-List-Util-1.15.txt > > > Something funky here... Last night I looked at "Scalar-List-Util"... > but the correct name as Tyler said is "Scalar-List-Utils", with an "s"

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Smylers
Offer Kaye writes: > I see what you mean... what threw me off was that [List::Util and > Scalar::Util are] not listed under: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.8.8/ Well spotted! List/Util.pm (including pod) is here: http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8/ext/List/Util/lib/List/Util.

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread demerphq
On 2/5/06, Offer Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW Gozer have you looked at the first line: > Cannot forceunlink D:\cpanrun\build\5-8-0\lib\auto\List\Util\Util.dll: > Permission denied at D:\cpanrun\build\5-8-0\lib/File/Find.pm line 874 > > Maybe the script is trying to delete a file that the s

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Offer Kaye
On 2/6/06, Smylers wrote: > > So it seems the extra level of subdirectories are causing List::Util > (and a whole bunch of other modules) not to show up in the main perl > dist page. > > Is Cpan Search's heuristic for what gets included documented anywhere? Now that I think about it, I seem to rec

Re: Default tests, beta testing, etc.

2006-02-06 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 6, 2006, at 1:37 AM, Adam Kennedy wrote: In fact, what you just asked is already listed in the PITA documentation as within it's scope. For lack of a better name, I've called it Fallout Testing. As opposed to Rot Testing, which is when your module doesn't change, but makes sure it s

Re: Kwalitee in your dependencies (was CPAN Upload: etc etc)

2006-02-06 Thread David Cantrell
David Landgren wrote: David Cantrell wrote: brian d foy wrote: Seriously though, I would expect things in Win32::* to only work on Windows, things in Linux::* only to work on linux, and so on for many other sections (including Mac::* where I have some modules). Portable code isn't always the g

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Kennedy
Offer Kaye wrote: On 2/6/06, Adam Kennedy wrote: But I'm not really too worried any more, the CamelPack means it's much easier not to just install from source than use the PPM system. s/not/now/ Installing from souce == compiling every module that needs it... How is that *easier* than inst