On Friday, August 17, 2012 4:50 PM, Reini Urban wrote: >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.
Thank you for the response. While the new package was annoying and took some time to figure out, I was more concerned that the announcement implied that the new package was for modules which weren't of general use. I didn't see the original announcement (we rarely update cygwin) so it took a while to find. However, even if I had seen the announcement I wouldn't have had any reason think it would affect me. Thomas Wicklund -- 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
