Re: [Module::Build] Pure Perl version objects

[Randy K. <ra...@th...>]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, David Golden wrote:

> John Peacock wrote:
>> All -
>> 
>> I finally sat down and duplicated the XS version code in Perl and have
>> implemented pure Perl version objects.  In order to fully support all of 
>> the
>
> Awesome!
>
>> ActiveState does include various Scalar::Util releases in 
>> both the 5.6.x (non-XS apparently) and 5.8.x (full XS). 
>> But ActiveState has been lazy, it seems, as they haven't 
>> updated the PPM build machine to anything newer than 
>> Module::Build 0.20 (judging from some of the build errors 
>> I'm seeing on their web site).
>
> Worse is that they haven't updated Scalar::Util from 
> version 1.05 (or 0.06) on their PPM build machine, so 
> *everything* that wants, say, refaddr (Scalar::Util 1.09) 
> doesn't build.  There was another round of complaints 
> about it on perlqa.  I sent emails recently to both 
> ppm-request and the person listed on perlqa as the 
> maintainer of it and got zero reply.  (Not even a "your 
> ticket has been received" reply.)
>
> That said, I'd say to go for it.  You can probably get 
> Randy Kobes to build up a PPM on the uwinnipeg repository. 
> And with things like CamelPack 
> (http://stennie.org/camelpack/) maybe PPM dependence will 
> be a thing of the past before long anyway. (Now that 
> you've done the pure perl version, of course.)

I've just updated some of these packages on our reposititory
that weren't at the most recent (non-developer) version:

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Module-Build
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Scalar-List-Utils
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/version

-- 
best regards,
Randy