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That sounds fishy, are you sure that's what happened? (or in other words, have you been able to pin-point any code in the Test-Harness distro that's responsible)

Have you talked to schwern (he maintains it) about this? (you should, i'd like to hear what he has to say about it, maybe it's inadvertent)

I noticed that CGI.pm-2.81 cheerfully installs itself into the \perl\lib directory, overwriting whatever version of CGI came where, which was a bit unexpected.

Bummer.

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Re: Re: Module installation can be harmful
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2002 at 10:39 UTC
    Known problem.

    It was a bug in CPAN in 5.005_03. The bug was not discovered until after 5.6.0 was out and people were being forcibly upgraded. It was fixed in the 5.6.1 release.

    Upgrading CPAN.pm first would have solved it.

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      Except that toma is not using CPAN.pm to install the module from CPAN. Why would you use CPAN on Windows? (it's waaaay too buggy to do anything useful ~ CPANPLUS is nice, but it's currently lacking PPM support ~ can't wait for the next release)

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        While i agree totally about using CPANPLUS, I have to disagree about CPAN under windows. It works pretty well for me. Admitedly not everything builds successfully. BTW What OS flavour?

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