Re: ship it

On Jul 10, 2008, at 01:10, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> Hmm, who gets to decide when a large portion of CPAN might break?
>
>  http://cpan.org/authors/id/E/EW/EWILHELM/Module- 
> Build-0.2808_02.tar.gz
>
> As soon as enough people feel confident that nothing has been  
> completely
> broken?

With this version installed, I've tested it by running `perl Build.PL  
&& ./Build disttest` with Perl 5.10.0, 5.8.8, and 5.6.2 on Mac OS X  
10.5.4 "Leopard" with the following distributions (most that I own):

   Apache-Dir
   Apache-FakeTable
   App-Info
   Bundle-Theory
   Class-Delegator
   Class-Meta
   Class-Meta-Express
   Data-Types
   Encode-ZapCP1252
   Exception-Class-DBI
   FSA-Rules
   Lingua-Strfname
   MasonX-Interp-WithCallbacks
   Params-CallbackRequest
   SVN-Notify
   SVN-Notify-Filter-Markdown
   Text-Diff-HTML
   Text-WordDiff
   Time-Piece-ISO
   Widget-Meta
   activitymail

I had only two issues. First, there is still an issue comparing  
version numbers. Encode::ZapCP1252 has this line:

     requires           => { 'perl'          => 5.006_002  },

Yet I got this error when building it with Perl 5.6.2:

Checking prerequisites...
  * Optional prerequisite Encode is not installed
  - ERROR: perl (5.006002) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002

That 5.6002 doesn't look right. I get the same error with 5.8.8:

Checking prerequisites...
. - ERROR: perl (5.008008) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002

Something is wonky there. I get the same error with FSA::Rules

The second issue was with activitymail. I got this error:

Can't determine distribution version, must supply either 'dist_version',
'dist_version_from', or 'module_name' parameter at /usr/local/lib/ 
perl5/5.10.0/Module/Build/Base.pm line 978.

This despite this line in Build.PL (which has worked in the past):

     dist_version_from  => 'bin/activitymail',

And yes, the file does exist.

Otherwise, all was good for me. Thanks for the great work, everyone!

David