Bug #25366 for Bot-CPAN: Hardcoded paths

Sat Mar 10 17:05:06 2007 schubiger [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Hardcoded paths

Beginning as of 1.10, you have following lines of code within lib/Bot/CPAN.pm which make it impossible (atleast for me) to bootstrap the CPAN bot accordingly: 291: my $cp = retrieve('/home/afoxson/.cpanbot/index') unless $self->get('cp'); 558: my $cp = retrieve('/home/afoxson/.cpanbot/index'); As discussed on #perl in Freenode, the consensus was to use File::Home::Save to safely place files in home directories. I guess, you've been using these paths within your environment, but they surely a major show-stopper when the distribution gets proliferated to CPAN. Nevertheless, I reverted to 0.79 which came to life after I've installed the *exact* versions of the dependecies.

Fri Apr 06 00:43:33 2007 FOX [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Sat Mar 10 17:05:06 2007, SCHUBIGER wrote: Show quoted text

> Beginning as of 1.10, you have following lines of code within > lib/Bot/CPAN.pm which make it impossible (atleast for me) to bootstrap > the CPAN bot accordingly: > > 291: my $cp = retrieve('/home/afoxson/.cpanbot/index') unless > $self->get('cp'); > > 558: my $cp = retrieve('/home/afoxson/.cpanbot/index'); > > As discussed on #perl in Freenode, the consensus was to use > File::Home::Save to safely place files in home directories. > > I guess, you've been using these paths within your environment, > but they surely a major show-stopper when the distribution gets > proliferated to CPAN. > > Nevertheless, I reverted to 0.79 which came to life after I've > installed the *exact* versions of the dependecies.

Yikes! That was not intentional; The hard-coded paths were in there for debugging and inadvertently made it into the release. I'll get that corrected in the next version. Thank you very much for pointing this out!

Fri Apr 06 00:43:38 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'