On 3/14/06, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Golden wrote: > > Steve Peters wrote: > > > The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl > > > function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This was > > > changed with Perl 5.8.8. Once ActiveState releases a Perl 5.8.8, > > > they should be able to upgrade the version of Scalar-List-Utils that > > > they distribute. > > > > I don't really understand that answer given what I see in the field. > > It is not that simple. The problem is that the same PPM repository is > used by clients using older versions of ActivePerl, and none of those > versions contain a PPM that could upgrade their bundled Scalar-List- > Utils module. > > I think Gozer has some ideas about how to work around this in the near > future, so I let him answer this... :) > > In the longer run we need to fix the whole PPM infrastructure to be > able to upgrade core modules too.
While you do it maybe you could think about not throwing away the bulk of the package when you build the ppd. I personally think its disappointing that modules installed with ppm come without any testing framework. At the bare minimum it makes doing on site quickie patches much more frustrating. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
