Re: Best way to include developer version of a module
Bill Luebkert <[email protected]>
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On 9/2/2010 4:02 AM, Tim Bolshaw wrote: > The Mail::Sendmail module included in the ppm repositories, and installed using either ppm or cpan is version 0.79 (dated 06 Feb 2003). There is a "developer" release 0.79_16 (dated 08 Jul 2006) that has significant enhancements, not least SMTP AUTH support. > > I could not find an elegant way to force cpan to pick up that version, and have been just downloading the tar and overwriting the Sendmail.pm file. > > What is the recommended way of handling this issue? What does Mail::Sendmail have that MIME::Lite doesn't have ? In other words - it may be the wrong package for the job. At least make a comparison for the features you need and see if it's even worth the effort. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs