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Id: 19153
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: Perl-Critic
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: steve.kirkup [...] dss.virginia.gov
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.15
Fixed in: 0.15

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  Mon May 08 14:39:36 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Windows Incompatibilities...
This is not so much a bug but an incompability with different version of ActivePerl. PPI requires Scalar::Util 1.18 but it needs to be compiled with .xs. If you use cpan, it will install Scalar::Util without .xs which kinda breaks Scalar::Util and then you cannot install PPI. Also because Scalar::Util is part of the standard distribution the only why to get it reinstalled with .xs is to reinstall the whole Activestate distribution. This is fixed in Activestate distribution 5.8.8 Build 817. Suggestion, can you include a check to see if you are on a Windows box to see if you are at least at 5.8.8 before doing the installation? It took me a while to figure out that using cpan without a c compiler is very painful! :)
  Tue May 09 09:56:47 2006 cpan [...] clotho.com - Correspondence added
From: cdolan [...] cpan.org
On Mon May 08 14:39:36 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text
> This is not so much a bug but an incompability with different version of > ActivePerl. > > PPI requires Scalar::Util 1.18 but it needs to be compiled with .xs. If > you use cpan, it will install Scalar::Util without .xs which kinda > breaks Scalar::Util and then you cannot install PPI. Also because > Scalar::Util is part of the standard distribution the only why to get it > reinstalled with .xs is to reinstall the whole Activestate distribution. > > This is fixed in Activestate distribution 5.8.8 Build 817. > > Suggestion, can you include a check to see if you are on a Windows box > to see if you are at least at 5.8.8 before doing the installation? It > took me a while to figure out that using cpan without a c compiler is > very painful! :)
Steve, Thanks for the report but I think this is way beyond the scope of Perl::Critic to address. If anything, it sounds like Scalar::Util should have a warning/recommendation rather than Perl::Critic since we are two levels downstream. Perhaps you could add a note to annocpan.org for Scalar::Util? Chris
  Tue May 09 09:56:48 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue May 09 10:02:36 2006 steve.kirkup [...] dss.virginia.gov - Correspondence added
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #19153] Windows Incompatibilities...
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:02:14 -0400
To: <bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Steve Kirkup" <steve.kirkup [...] dss.virginia.gov>
Chris, The fundamental problem really is that cpan will always attempt to install a more current module with or without .XS installed over-top of the current module. You are right that Perl::Critic is pretty far downstream but I figured I could mention it to you and it could be mentioned in the documentation or the installer. Let me submit this as a bug to the cpan utility which is where the problem really lies. Steve Kirkup Show quoted text
-----Original Message----- From: via RT [mailto:bug-Perl-Critic@rt.cpan.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:57 AM To: steve.kirkup@dss.virginia.gov Subject: [rt.cpan.org #19153] Windows Incompatibilities... <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19153 > On Mon May 08 14:39:36 2006, guest wrote:
> This is not so much a bug but an incompability with different version of > ActivePerl. > > PPI requires Scalar::Util 1.18 but it needs to be compiled with .xs. If > you use cpan, it will install Scalar::Util without .xs which kinda > breaks Scalar::Util and then you cannot install PPI. Also because > Scalar::Util is part of the standard distribution the only why to get it > reinstalled with .xs is to reinstall the whole Activestate distribution. > > This is fixed in Activestate distribution 5.8.8 Build 817. > > Suggestion, can you include a check to see if you are on a Windows box > to see if you are at least at 5.8.8 before doing the installation? It > took me a while to figure out that using cpan without a c compiler is > very painful! :)
Steve, Thanks for the report but I think this is way beyond the scope of Perl::Critic to address. If anything, it sounds like Scalar::Util should have a warning/recommendation rather than Perl::Critic since we are two levels downstream. Perhaps you could add a note to annocpan.org for Scalar::Util? Chris
  Sun May 14 08:24:50 2006 thaljef [...] cpan.org - Ticket deleted
  Sun May 14 08:25:41 2006 thaljef [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'deleted' to 'rejected'