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'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.

That's not an issue of File::Path per se but more an issue with your install build chain. What it's saying is that your version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker is older than the version I used. I think LICENSE was introduced with version 6.30.

If you upgrade EUMM, you will no longer see that warning. Thanks for taking it for a spin. I assume the tests checked out ok?

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Re^3: Call for testers: File::Path
by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 27, 2007 at 17:21 UTC
    I think LICENSE was introduced with version 6.30

    Must be 6.31 - I have 6.30.

    I'd probably take steps to ensure that the 'LICENSE' parameter wasn't passed if EU::MM wasn't sufficiently recent - but that might just be me :-)

    The test suite ran just fine.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re^3: Call for testers: File::Path
by Herkum (Parson) on May 28, 2007 at 11:02 UTC

    If you are making the module compatible with older versions of Perl, I don't think you can count on them having a current version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker. There can be weird system incompatibility issues that prevent it from being installed.

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      Indeed. The usual construct is something like ($] < 5.008 ? (HERATIC_OPT => "something") : ()) in your WriteMakefile() arguments.

      -Paul

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        Bingo.

        You're quite right about this, except that the decision needs to be predicated on the version of EUMM installed, rather than the perl version. I'm quite comfortable about leaving the key in and letting EUMM complain, since the main purpose of the warning is to say "Hey, I don't know what this is", the subtext being "Did you type a key incorrectly?". But not letting it grumble is even better.

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