Re: [mh] Repairing LWP

Given the amount of dependency hell involved, that could be not pretty.

I mentioned I'm running a very old version of the code. Updating to 
current code to get that change would likely destroy my current 
implementation in a way that would be far beyond practical to repair and 
completely blow my WAF for how long it would take, given I can't even 
update the version of Perl from 5.8 without running into all sorts of 
Win32 compiled code problems.

I can see that code in use for my version I expect:
  # Pick local mh modules first, over any site install ones
         unshift (@INC, './../lib', './../lib/site', '.');
in the core "mh" file. I don't quite understand it mind you but I can 
see it.  Have you tried it?

There's a dependency hell in MH win32 compiled code that I suspect will 
make that change non-trivial.

Rick

On 8/26/2019 5:58 PM, Brian M wrote:

> Pull request #786 addresses this.  It moves these packages into a 
> separate Perl library that is late in @INC, after the regular system 
> libraries (e.g. /usr/local/lib/perl5 or whatever your system uses).  The 
> net result is that MH users will use the MH-supplied versions of common 
> Perl packages only if system versions are not available.
> 
> If pull request #786 is accepted, you could solve this just by 
> installing LWP in one of your regular system Perl package folders, 
> probably through your distro installation tools.
> 
> I don't know what the normal process is for reviewing and 
> accepting/rejecting pull requests, so I don't know when #786 will be 
> considered.  I do know that we're lucky to have maintainers that 
> volunteer their time to caring for MH, and I appreciate them.
> 
>                        -Brian M.
> 
> 
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