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Id: 17963
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN
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Owner: ANDK [...] cpan.org
Requestors: adamk [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.87
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Mar 03 12:06:00 2006 adamk [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Bundle::CPAN should refer to readline, not Term::ReadLine::Perl
Sigh... The author of Term::ReadLine::Perl does not update the version of Term::ReadLine::Perl when that specific file does not change. He only updates readline.pm, which is installed as Term/ReadLine/readline.pm... It's a bit twisted up, but the only way I can see to make the Bundle work right is to put the dependency on readline.pm, not Term::ReadLine::Perl.
  Mon Mar 06 02:00:19 2006 andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de - Correspondence added
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Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #17963] Bundle::CPAN should refer to readline, not Term::ReadLine::Perl
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:47:26 +0100
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
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>>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:06:01 -0500 (EST), " via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> Fri Mar 03 12:06:00 2006: Request 17963 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by ADAMK > Queue: CPAN > Subject: Bundle::CPAN should refer to readline, not Term::ReadLine::Perl > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: ADAMK@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17963 >
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> Sigh...
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> The author of Term::ReadLine::Perl does not update the version of > Term::ReadLine::Perl when that specific file does not change.
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> He only updates readline.pm, which is installed as > Term/ReadLine/readline.pm...
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> It's a bit twisted up, but the only way I can see to make the Bundle > work right is to put the dependency on readline.pm, not > Term::ReadLine::Perl.
Which does not work because readline.pm has an irregular package name: while it is installed as Term/ReadLine/readine.pm and can be required as C<require Term::ReadLine::readline>, it provides only the package C<readline>. So the indexer sees only the package C<readline> which cannot be loaded with C<require readline>. I have only the workaround to inject the distro ILYAZ/modules/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0207.tar.gz ino the bundle but this would have the disadvantage that the distro gets installed again and again whenever the user says C<install Bundle::CPAN>. Advice welcome. -- andreas
  Mon Mar 06 02:00:20 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Sep 11 17:32:48 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed in 1.87_58 by special-casing readline.pm directly in the inst_file routine
  Mon Sep 11 17:32:51 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Tue Sep 12 00:10:33 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'
  Tue Sep 12 00:11:06 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Tue Sep 12 00:16:04 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Sorry, it was wrong to close this ticket. Indeed we were talking about two bugs: one was the 'package readline' Term/ReadLine/readline.pm. This is solved now. We'll have to wait a few months or years before we can make the requested change to Bundle::CPAN. So re-opened now and kept on hold until 1.88 has wide acceptance.
  Fri Mar 23 03:09:23 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Keeping "on hold". I see no pressing needs to push this forward. Keeping this ticket oen though.