retelling of all the tired old pumpking jokes

I'm new here, so I didn't know they were old :D But doubly, I was following the Japanese (which just said "pumpkin"), and assumed the English was a typo/mistrans.

they can put out new releases at whim. Which IMO is the problem not a solution.

It may not be a solution, but it's certainly never a problem in itself. If your issue with that is because it allows the developers to release too haphazardly for your liking, then it's an issue with the developers and their release process, not the build process.

frequent, dump-everything-you-have-and-start-again releases are a nightmare for users

Of course; but I don't think it's quite gotten to that.

In reply to Re^4: How to install Tk-ImageButton module in perl 5.12 using ppm by anneli
in thread How to install Tk-ImageButton module in perl 5.12 using ppm by vichu001

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