Bug #30228 for Compress-Zlib: Surprise in readme dependancies

Tue Oct 23 17:00:23 2007 tco2 [...] cornell.edu - Ticket created

Subject:	Surprise in readme dependancies
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:59:24 -0400
To:	bug-Compress-Zlib [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Todd Olson <tco2 [...] cornell.edu>

Hi In the README you say that we must have IO::Compress::Zlib installed before building Compress::Zlib but CPAN says The Module IO::Compress:Zlib isn't available on CPAN However installing IO::Compress::Gunzip does seem to do what is needed Regards, Todd Olson

Tue Oct 23 17:25:58 2007 tco2 [...] cornell.edu - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #30228] Surprise in readme dependancies
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:25:17 -0400
To:	bug-Compress-Zlib [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Todd Olson <tco2 [...] cornell.edu>

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> >However installing IO::Compress::Gunzip does seem to do what is needed

make that be IO::Uncompress::Gunzip (sigh) Regards, Todd Olson

Sun Oct 28 12:01:44 2007 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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PMQS [...] cpan.org

Hi Todd, thanks for the feedback. The IO-Compress-Zlib *distribution* is available on CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/IO-Compress-Zlib-2.006/ Which doesn't exist is a perl *module* called IO::Compress::Zlib. The problem is down to the CPAN shell not knowing what to do with distributions where there isn't a module that matches the distribution name. I guess we are stuck with the behaviour in CPAN for the moment, so I'll redo the paragraph on the prerequisites. cheers Paul

Sun Oct 28 12:01:46 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Oct 29 13:29:30 2007 tco2 [...] cornell.edu - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #30228] Surprise in readme dependancies
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:29:04 -0400
To:	bug-Compress-Zlib [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Todd Olson <tco2 [...] cornell.edu>

Hi Paul Thanks for the reply Show quoted text

>The IO-Compress-Zlib *distribution* is available on CPAN > > http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/IO-Compress-Zlib-2.006/ > >Which doesn't exist is a perl *module* called IO::Compress::Zlib.

Yep, and that was causing a problem for Bundle::CPAN (now fixed). Show quoted text

> >The problem is down to the CPAN shell not knowing what to do with >distributions where there isn't a module that matches the distribution >name.

Thanks for confirming that ... Show quoted text

> >I guess we are stuck with the behaviour in CPAN for the moment, so I'll >redo the paragraph on the prerequisites. >

Great. QUESTION: Would there be a net advantage to making a place holder module named IO::Compress::Zlib, so that modules that use IO-Compress-Zlib would have something obvious to claim they depended on to get the distribution? Regards, Todd

Mon Oct 29 15:24:01 2007 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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PMQS [...] cpan.org

On Mon Oct 29 13:29:30 2007, tco2@cornell.edu wrote: ... Show quoted text

> QUESTION: Would there be a net advantage to making a place holder > module named IO::Compress::Zlib, so that modules that use > IO-Compress-Zlib would have something obvious to claim > they depended on to get the distribution?

That has occurred to me, but I've resisted the temptation so far. I'll see how things go with changing the prerequisite to a real module in the README. If it becomes a major issue (i.e. I get a lot of mail about it), I'll revisit it. Paul

Mon Oct 29 15:57:48 2007 tco2 [...] cornell.edu - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #30228] Surprise in readme dependancies
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:55:20 -0400
To:	bug-Compress-Zlib [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Todd Olson <tco2 [...] cornell.edu>

Hi Paul Show quoted text

>That has occurred to me, but I've resisted the temptation so far. I'll >see how things go with changing the prerequisite to a real module in >the README. If it becomes a major issue (i.e. I get a lot of mail about >it), I'll revisit it. >

I'm confortable with that. Regards, Todd

Mon May 05 16:10:33 2008 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'