[HRPM] Andreas Koenig responded re. CPAN.pm mis-installing 5.6!

[chicks at chicks.net]

I was cleaning up old stuff today and I found the HRPM thread about
CPAN.pm installing perl 5.6 when you were just trying to install a module.
I sent off a note to Andreas Koenig and he responded within a few hours
with the answer!  Isn't perl great?  :-)

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</chris>

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Date: 27 Oct 2000 17:23:59 +0200
From: Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig at anima.de>
To: chicks at chicks.net
Cc: Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig at anima.de>
Subject: Re: CPAN installing 5.6 when it isn't wanted

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:48:25 -0400 (EDT), chicks at chicks.net said:

 > There's been a lot of discussion in our local perl mongers group about
 > CPAN installing perl 5.6 when only a module was requested.

 > I've looked the CPAN.pm release notes and extensively on the net for an
 > answer. I found this:
 >         http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2000-September/023632.html

 > But that's all.  Is this fixed?  Was it broke in the first place?

It was damn bad broken, sure. It was fixed immediately after it
appeared the moment after perl-5.6.0 was released. If the bug has
reappeared since in some different manifestation, I'd need a bug
report.

 > I'd like to forward an answer back to my local perl mongers if you don't
 > object ( http://norfolk.pm.org ).

Sure, please do. It's a mess because the bug of course still exists
for the old CPAN.pm which comes with old perls. The problem is that
old CPAN.pm do not recognize the file name perl-5.6.0.tar.gz as a perl
distribution.

-- 
andreas