On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:05:06PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Class::Fields ships a version of base.pm with bug fixes. It allows one > to upgrade base.pm on older versions of perl. The CPAN > 02packages.details.txt index is listing perl-5.8.0.tar.gz as the source > for base causing dependency problems with some of my modules, most > notably Class::Accessor. I've gotten almost a dozen bug reports of > people unable to resolve the base.pm dependency. > > Could the CPAN index be altered so the base.pm in the Class-Fields > tarball shows up rather than the one in perl-5.8.0?
I believe this is possible but since I don't know how to do it I'll leave that to others :-) But shouldn't the base.pm fixes also be migrated to blead/maintperls? -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
