[ADAMK - Fri Sep 2 04:28:00 2005]:
Show quoted text> After installing 5.005 to do some backwards-compatibility testing I
> had extreme problems with the age of the CPAN components.
>
> The first step after installing 5.005 is really to upgrade CPAN
> immediately, but to do that depends on Test::More and Test::Harness
> and some other test-time things that have to be installed first,
> which is subject to CPAN.pm's problems (the oooold version in
> 5.005)
>
> One solution to this could be to convert the CPAN.pm installation to
> use Module::Install, and take advantage of Module::Install's
> "include()" feature to include the current modern versions of
> Test::More and Test::Harness and so in in the CPAN.pm package
> itself, removing the need to upgrade anything other than CPAN.pm
> itself to get a sane install environment.
>
One thing that would be very tricky to solve is the fact that CPAN 1.48
does not know that perl-5.8.7.tar.gz is a perl distro and it will
happily try to download 5.8.7 for whatever it believes to need. To work
around tis problem, you must sit in front of the CPAN shell and ^C as
soon as it tries to unpack 5.8.7.
The other thing seems to be that I forgot File::Temp in the prereqs and
in the bundle. I just added them and believe this will make working with
5.00503 easy enough. I just tried it:
-Install fresh 5.00503
-In the CPAN shell install Bundle::CPAN
-Interrupt when it tries to download 5.8.7 with one single
^C but let it otherwise continue (many installs fail, includig CPAN,
but be patient)
-When back to the prompt, install File::Temp
-install CPAN, this time it succeeds
-leave the shell and start it again--seems to work nicely
When I release 1.81 and File::emp is a normal prereq, this should work
without the extra step for File::Temp.
