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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 08:18:47PM +0000, Zefram wrote:
> I'd be inclined to make the chmod conditional on $^O =~
> /\A(?:MSWin32|VMS)\z/. If that breaks it for some OS of which we
> know even less, presumably we'll get a bug report identifying the OS.
> Flawed though this approach is, by fixing the module for all Unices we'd
> immediately make it qualitatively much less buggy.
I've now pushed something similar as smoke-me/davem/ext-install.
I'd be particularly keen for owners of non-POSIX platforms to check it by
installing an older version of a CPAN module, then installing a newer
version and making sure that it deletes the older files and replaces
them with newer ones.
--
Wesley Crusher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a smarmy git,
and consequently has a go at making some friends of his own age for a
change.
-- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #18
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