On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:52:03PM +0000, Neil Bowers wrote: > Hi, > > I recently got bitten by installing File::Stat on my Mac, as it superseded > File::stat, the core module. This broken various things, but I only > discovered this when two CPAN authors emailed me about some failing reports I > sent to CPAN testers (I'm using CPAN::Reporter). I discovered there are a > number of other examples like this on CPAN, and as CPAN grows it could happen > more. > > I've written up the issue, so I could email this short message to the PAUSE > admins: > > http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2013/02/pause-permissions-should-be-case-insensitive.html > > I think the "right solution" is to make PAUSE's permissions model case > insensitive, and to resolve the current problem cases (I know, much easier > said than done).
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