| Subject: | Configuration Independant installations |
Below is the report from a recent cpan-smoke run
Testing: /K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Module-Build-0.25.tar.gz
Checking whether your kit is complete...
Looks good
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Module-Build' version '0.25'
* ERROR: Configuration was initially created with Module::Build version '0.25',
but we are now using version '0.23'. Please re-run the Build.PL or Makefile.PL script.
Is there any way to stop this from happening as I don't want to have keep updating Module::Build, everytime another module is built with a more recent version. Especially if there is no reason for me to do so. As an example another cpan-smoke run:
Testing: /A/AS/ASAVIGE/Acme-EyeDrops-1.44.tar.gz
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Creating custom builder _build\lib\My\Builder.pm in _build\lib\My
Checking whether your kit is complete...
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Creating new 'Build' script for 'Acme-EyeDrops' version '1.44'
* ERROR: Version 0.23 of Module::Build is installed, but we need version >= 0.24
ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES. You may wish to install the versions
of the modules indicated above before proceeding with this installation.
No such module: Module::Build, cannot satisfy dependency in CPANPLUS::Internals::Make::_make at Tue Apr 27 10:11:50 2004 at C:\Perl\site\lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Make.pm line 346
t\00_Coffee.........ok
t\01_mug............ok
t\02_shatters.......ok
t\03_Larry..........ok
t\04_Apocalyptic....ok
t\05_Parrot.........ok
t\06_not............ok
t\07_a..............ok
t\08_hoax...........ok
t\09_Gallop.........ok
t\10_Ponie..........ok
t\11_bold...........ok
t\12_Beer...........skipped
all skipped: Linux /usr/games/banner not available
t\13_to.............ok
t\14_gulp...........ok
t\15_Buffy..........ok
t\16_astride........ok
t\17_Orange.........ok
t\18_sky............ok
t\19_surrounds......skipped
all skipped: Skipping long running generator tests unless $ENV{PERL_SMOKE} is true
t\gen...............ok
t\zgen..............ok
All tests successful, 2 tests skipped.
Files=22, Tests=854, 14 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU)
1 shapes completed.
Successfully sent report for Acme-EyeDrops-1.44.
As CPANPLUS is have problems installing prerequisites at the moment, you can see that even with the installed version of Module::Build (0.23) the module gets to the test sequence without a hitch.
If users are going to have to keep installing the latest version of Module::Build by hand, everytime they want a module that the author has created with a more recent version, I can see Module::Build quickly falling out of favour.
If there is already a setting to do this, perhaps it should be the default rather than forcing the latest and greatest.
Distribution: Module-Build all versions
Perl: v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread build 635
OS: MINGW32_NT-5.0