On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:31:47AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Golden
> >Install Archive::Tar. Upgrade Module::Build. That should fix it for
> >you.
> This makes me wonder how many authors are using a current version of
> Module::Build. Between this, configure_requires, and the
> Software::License support, there are a lot of improvements in the past
> year or so.
Terribly hard to measure, but I'd imagine that almost no authors have
up-to-date versions of:
Module::Build
Module::Install
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
CPAN.pm
just like they don't have up-to-date versions of any other stable module
that *appears* to Just Work, such as DBI. I know that *I* don't - my
toolchain is only mostly up-to-date on my testing machines.
Perhaps CPAN.pm (and CPANPLUS) could add a way of checking for updated
toolchain-ish modules on startup. Simply compare version numbers of
what you've got against what's in the CPAN index files. There's no
privacy concerns as the files are already available on the user's
machine. Have it warn loudly if you've got old versions of tools.
I'd be happy to add this to my To-do list if the maintainers think it's
a good idea.
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