Re: A question of permissions

Matt,

>> So I was thinking, why would it complain about a non-existent
>> permissions error if it had no idea what the module name was
>> supposed to be in the first place?

> It knows the dist name. To upload Date-Easy as a dist name requires perms
> on Date::Easy.
>
> Then the empty provides means it didn't index Date/Easy.pm so you never got
> the first-come perms generated so the dist was marked disallowed so it told
> you about that.

Okay, that makes sense.

>> But perhaps it's all connected, as you surmise.

> There is no perhaps involved. Neil knows what he's talking about.
>
> Please try to be less condescending to volunteers trying to help you by
> telling you your exact mistake.

Ummm ... maybe please try to be less condescending to people you assume 
are being condescending without any real proof. ;->  All I did was refer 
to this statement of Neil's:

>>> I *think* that the problem is ...

as "surmising."  I don't see any condescension there.  However, if Neil 
does, I hope he will let me know and I'll be pleased to apologize for 
any lack of clarity on my part which may have caused the misunderstanding.


		-- Buddy