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Id: 67952
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: DateTime
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: mkanat [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 0.69
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed May 04 18:02:41 2011 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: It is now impossible to install DateTime on a clean Perl 5.8
Hey. So, Perl 5.8 doesn't ship with Module::Build. It also doesn't ship with JSON. It also doesn't ship with YAML. So, when a normal user does "cpan install DateTime" on Perl 5.8, they now get a fantastic and cryptic error message that they do not understand, about Module::Build not being installed (which CPAN.pm conveniently hides quite far up from its final line of output). Perhaps DateTime, as a major module used by numerous Perl applications, is not the best place to do experimental things like removing Makefile.PL or removing META.yml.
  Wed May 04 18:24:52 2011 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Okay, for some reason search.cpan simply wasn't showing the META.yml, but it's still there. My bad!
  Wed May 04 18:24:53 2011 mkanat [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'rejected'