Re^5: Class::MOP and MOP.dll

... 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.

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Re^6: Class::MOP and MOP.dll by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 11, 2008 at 14:28 UTC
Ah! So the problem with the AS respository is not that the build against the .0 release, it's that they don't maintain the core modules on the build machine? Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^7: Class::MOP and MOP.dll by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2008 at 14:48 UTC
Yes, that's my understanding of it - though you'd be unwise to regard me as an "authority" on this matter. (I think I've got it right, but I probably shouldn't have written with such an air of authorativity in my last post.) Cheers, Rob	[reply]