... any package that has dependancies upon post 5.8.0 updates to the core and/or core modules fail to build

Only if the 5.8.0 core in question has not, itself, been updated. Still, that's probably expecting a bit too much of the rep maintainer ... maybe it's better to instead expect the user to update his perl build (as was recommended for this particular case).

For any 5.8.x ppm's that I personally build for public consumption, I always build them [1] against 5.8.0 - and if that build of 5.8.0 needed a core upgrade then that's what I would do. But I only maintain a handful of ppm packages ... not the hundreds that Serguei provides.

Thanks - maybe I won't send that email, after all. I've already sent my quota of emails for the day, anyway :-)

Cheers,
Rob
[1]There's currently one exception - the 5.8 Math-GSL ppm package that's on randyk's rep. I mistakenly thought it could not be built on 5.8.0. This will be corrected at the next update.

In reply to Re^5: Class::MOP and MOP.dll by syphilis
in thread Class::MOP and MOP.dll by mpettis

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