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On 18 September 2013 12:54, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Steve Hay <perlbug-followup@perl.org> > wrote: >> >> With a fresh installation of blead (patchlevel as below) and a fresh >> .cpan folder in C:\Users\shay I can no longer use 'cpan' to install a >> simple CPAN distribution in which the META.yml file says >> >> requires: >> perl: 5.6 >> >> For example, with Win32::WinError I get this output: >> >> cpan[1]> install Win32::WinError >> [...] >> Configuring J/JD/JDB/Win32-WinError-0.03.tar.gz with Makefile.PL >> Checking if your kit is complete... >> Looks good >> Generating a nmake-style Makefile >> Writing Makefile for Win32::WinError >> Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json >> JDB/Win32-WinError-0.03.tar.gz >> C:\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL -- OK >> Running make for J/JD/JDB/Win32-WinError-0.03.tar.gz >> JDB/Win32-WinError-0.03.tar.gz requires perl '5.6'; you have only >> 5.019004; giving up >> JDB/Win32-WinError-0.03.tar.gz >> [prereq] -- NOT OK > > > It's supposed to be written as 5.006, not 5.6. The latter is equal to > 5.600.0, which we won't be at for a fairly long time. > Ah, yes. I have "perl: 5.6.0" in some of my distros' META.yml files. I forgot that 5.6 is different to 5.6.0... So that's a problem with the Win32-WinError distro then. Searching through other distros that I use I find the same thing in numerous others too, nearly all originating from the old libwin32 bundle: Win32-Console-0.09\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-Daemon-20110117\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-EventLog-0.076\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-File-0.06\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-OLE-0.1709\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-Process-0.14\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-Registry-0.10\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-Shortcut-0.07\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-Sound-0.51\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Win32-WinError-0.03\META.yml: perl: 5.6 Jan: Please could you roll out new releases of these (and any other affacted) distros before 5.20.0 hits the streets? I can raise a bunch of CPAN/RT tickets to remind you if you like, but it otherwise seems unecessary effort for such a minor thing. >> >> The same thing worked fine in perl-5.19.3. > > > It shouldn't have. If it did, I would guess that's because it was being > ignored somehow. It certainly did "work", and likewise in earlier (stable) perls too -- at least 5.18.0 and 5.18.1; I haven't tried further back. Let's hope there aren't too many CPAN distros out there harbouring the same problem, which has evidently been masked for some time!Thread Previous | Thread Next