Re: Attribute::Handlers versus ponie

 The CPAN indexer has the wrong distribution for Attribute::Handlers 
(a dependency of Params::Validate and thereby for HTML::Mason).  
Instead, it's "ponie" (an attempt to implement perl5 running on parrot).  
Just wondering if anyone else has actually run into this in reality - it 
appears that Arthur hasn't yet corrected this. 

As you will note, if you go to the CPAN website and check the links, the 
distros are correct.  It's just the CPAN shell that gets it wrong.

I believe this will cause anyone trying to install HTML::Mason over a 
new vanilla perl to fail, or at least to install FAR more than he/she 
intended (20M versus 15k)

Just in case you do get questions from newbies trying to do an install 
from scratch and getting quite confused.  If the owner of 
Params::Validate wants to bug Arthur Bergman again (hint hint), that would be 
cool.... :)

-Doug Treder

p.s.  here's a code snippet that will show the problem (and also let you know when it's fixed):
>> use CPAN;
>> my $object = CPAN::Shell->expandany("Attribute::Handlers");
>> print "Download: " . $object->cpan_file . "\n";



Forwarded Message:

Arthur Bergman wrote:

> I would argue it is a bug in the CPAN indexer, but I am planning to 
> upload a slightly updated A::H module that overrides the one in ponie.
>
> I would also suggest to automating CPAN deployments from an external 
> CPAN source is a good way to burn yourself when some stupid person 
> like me does a misstake like this and then doesn't have time to fix it 
> :).
>
> If you are using a inhouse CPAN mirror that you snapshot, you can just 
> patch the CPAN index file.
>
> Cheers
> Arthur
>
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> On 21 Dec 2004, at 00:19, Doug Treder wrote:
>
>> Hi Randy and Arthur,
>>
>> I'm doing some work with automating CPAN deployments in our 
>> workplace.  I came across something really strange :  the 
>> distribution for "Attribute::Handlers"  should probably be :   
>> A/AB/ABERGMAN/Attribute-Handlers-0.78.tar.gz
>>
>> however using the programmatic interface I instead get:  
>> A/AB/ABERGMAN/ponie-2.tar.gz
>>
>> here's some code to reproduce it:
>>
>> use CPAN;
>> my $object = CPAN::Shell->expandany("Attribute::Handlers");
>> print "Download: " . $object->cpan_file . "\n";
>>
>>  It's particularly annoying only because 
>> Attribute::Handlers is so small, and ponie is *SO BIG*!
>>
>> -Doug Treder
>>
>>
>



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