Bug #79900 for HTML-Tree: Can't install with cpan on Perl 5.8.7

Fri Sep 28 02:51:25 2012 boyapatimoni15 [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	HTML_TreeBuilder Bug.
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:21:12 +0530
To:	bug-html-tree [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Boyapati Mohini <boyapatimoni15 [...] gmail.com>

My cureent HTML::TreeBuilder version is 3.13. I tried to update it to latest version. But its not getting updated. Attached is file contains the perl version and cpan log for HTML::TreeBuilder installation. Thanks Mohini

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Fri Sep 28 03:05:12 2012 cjm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

You have a really old version of Perl (5.8.7 is over 7 years old now) and your "cpan" client doesn't know how to install a distribution that uses Module::Build. You should really install a current version of Perl (I recommend http://strawberryperl.com/), but you should be able to install HTML-Tree by upgrading your cpan client first (tell cpan to "install CPAN").

Fri Sep 28 03:05:14 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Sep 28 03:06:06 2012 cjm [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from 'HTML_TreeBuilder Bug.' to 'Can't install with cpan on Perl 5.8.7'

Fri Sep 28 04:17:11 2012 cjm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I just realized you have 2 problems. Aside from your cpan client being too old to know about Module::Build, you don't know how to use it. The command to install a module named "Module" is not "make install Module" like you are using. The "make" command simply builds the module but does not install it. So "make install HTML::TreeBuilder" actually means "please download and build the module named 'install' and the module named 'HTML::TreeBuilder' but do not install them". (There actually is a module named 'install': https://metacpan.org/module/install .) The correct syntax is just "install HTML::TreeBuilder".

Fri Sep 28 09:12:37 2012 $_ = 'spro^^*%*^6ut# [...] &$%*c>#!^!#&!pan.org'; y/a-z.@//cd; print - Correspondence added

On Fri Sep 28 04:17:11 2012, CJM wrote: Show quoted text

> I just realized you have 2 problems. Aside from your cpan client being > too old to know about Module::Build,

Why can’t you include a Makefile.PL as a fallback, the way version 4 did?

Fri Sep 28 14:19:52 2012 cjm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 8:12:37 AM, SPROUT wrote: Show quoted text

> Why can’t you include a Makefile.PL as a fallback, the way version 4 did?

I suppose we could, but there's no supported version of Perl that can't handle Module::Build. 5.8.x and 5.10.x don't even get critical security updates anymore. Anybody who insists on using an obsolete version of Perl with up-to-date modules should expect a few other things need upgrading. Anyway, shipping a Makefile.PL wouldn't have affected his real problem; he didn't actually ask cpan to install TreeBuilder. If he had, the cpan-generated Makefile.PL might very well have worked. I didn't see any errors in the log he posted.

Sat Oct 13 00:15:11 2012 cjm [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'