Re: [coldsync-hackers] approaching three point zero

[Alessandro Zummo <azummo-coldsync3 at towertech dot it>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:40:47 -0400
Christophe Beauregard <christophe.beauregard@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> p5-Palm isn't a well-behaved CPAN module. We (Palm:: module uploaders) 
> really want to be able to reference p5-Palm as a dependency (PM_PREREQ) 
> and, well, that just doesn't happen with the current CPAN version.  This 
> breaks 'cpan install Palm::Blah' and causes the CPAN smoke testing to 
> generate many erroneous test reports on perfectly good Palm:: modules.
> 
> Not sure what exactly needs to be done to fix it (it _looks_ sane to me), 
> but I'd really like to see something sorted out in the 3.0 timeframe.

 i once uploaded a module of mine, not Palm:: related to CPAN,
 but don't have too much knowledge of the PREREQ
 requirements.

 Do you have  more insights? A failed installation report, a module
 you know is correctly referenced by PREREQ_PM... ? 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it