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dave_the_m,
The issue is that I would like to contact the maintainer of Config.pm about making a specific error message a bit more friendly. In trying to track that individual down I found that it belongs to a bundle not making any sense. Typically you will see a core module belonging to the Perl bundle for that distribution or individually belonging to an author between releases. Neither is the case here. So I assume your advice would be to contact a pumpking then?

Cheers - L~R

I added the word specific in my original post WRT OS and compiler to clarify things
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Re^3: ActiveState and Config.pm Question
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jul 01, 2005 at 16:10 UTC
    It's part of the core, so use perlbug to file a report.

    Dave.

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      dave_the_m,
      Ok. I know you are trying to help and I appreciate that, but what tells me that just because a module is in the core I should use perlbug to file a report against it? I certainly wouldn't have thought to do that if the problem was with CGI as I would have emailed Lincoln.

      I suspect that by not contacting the maintainer and sending a "this seems wrong to me" message to p5p - I will get every opinion in the book as to how to solve the problem with no action, no response at all, or a "wrong place kid" response.

      Since you are the only person replying to this thread - I just may do that. I don't really feel that strongly about it to fight for though. I just wanted to raise some awareness about how an error message could be more user friendly.

      Cheers - L~R

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        I think you misunderstand what Dave is saying. When Perl builds, it creates the Config.pm module. There is no maintainer; it's an autogenerated file.

        If you read the first two lines of the module, they allude to this. Perhaps there's a better way to explain what's going on there, but I can't think of a situation where Config would break after a normal installation process.

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