On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:04:48PM -0600, Thomas Wicklund wrote: >>The update of perl on to 5.14 moved some perl modules to a new >>perl_vendor package which is not installed by default. The >>announcement I found stated that perl_vendor is modules "which are >>mainly required to build and test and report test results of other CPAN >>modules."
That was the short summary, yes. >>I find that the XML::Parser module (at least) has been moved. I've >>been using this module for years to parse XML output for a set of >>Subversion tools. I had a couple hours of digging today to figure out >>why a coworker started getting errors after updating Cygwin, then >>figuring out the new package. As an request from Yaakov and also from upstream p5p I have moved all non-core packages to the new perl_vendor. >>As an occasional user of perl I would much prefer that the maximum >>number of packages be included in the distribution (since disk space >>and bandwidth are constantly becoming cheaper) than to have to spend >>time figuring out why something can't be found. This is right. I really sympathize with you and all others. But unfortunately I had to made this move for political reasons, not technical ones. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
