Ah, that first FAQ is a bit out of date. A while back we gave up on trying to run the tests that use a live web server during CPAN installs, and just run them for us developers.

Anyway, I can't see exactly what your complaint about this "state of affairs" is. Like most software, we are unable to guarantee that Mason will work 100% perfectly on all platforms, on all machines, under all circumstances. This is pretty much the state of _all_ software today.

I also note that I don't recall seeing a post to the Mason users list recently regarding Fedora RC1 install failures. Maybe if you went to the correct forum for help, you'd get some. If you complain on some random forum, you're less likely to get help.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Module compilation hell by autarch
in thread Module compilation hell by Anonymous Monk

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