Bug #62874 for CPAN-PackageDetails: checks for missing files fail on windows

Tue Nov 09 11:20:06 2010 MITHALDU [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

checks for missing files fail on windows

Using 0.25, on windows i have problems on these lines in PackageDetails.pm sub check_for_missing_dists_in_repo: 525: my $native_path = catfile( $cpan_path, split m|/|, $path ); sub check_for_missing_dists_in_file: 560: my $native_path = catfile( $cpan_path, split m|/|, $path ); These both result in: "C:\dpan\C:\dpan\TFX-DownloadTOFiles-0.103130.tar.gz" $path is: "C:/dpan/TFX-DownloadTOFiles-0.103130.tar.gz" $cpan_path is: "C:\dpan" I'd offer patches but i have no idea what this meant to do and how it came about in the first place.

Tue Nov 09 12:44:10 2010 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Can you show me the script that gave you the problems? Were you running dpan or something that you wrote yourself?

Tue Nov 09 12:44:10 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Nov 09 13:22:21 2010 MITHALDU [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I ran dpan directly on the command line, on Windows7 and ActivePerl. I don't have access to the machine right now, but the shell prompt was: C:\dpan> dpan And nothing else. The tarball was directly in the same directory as well, which i think is part of the problem, as it worked when i created a fake authors/id/T/TF/TFX to store the tarball in. On another note: I'm sort of confused as to how one is supposed to use this in the first place, as it does not generate an authors/mail_list tarball.