RE: nightly 2003-12-11 slimserver error (on xp atleast...)

[Moser, Robert L. II]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sully
> * dean blackketter <dean (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com> shaped the
> electrons to say...
> > The problem that Caleb was trying to fix was that if you had CPAN
> > module that we also had installed, but with a different version,
> > it would pick up the system one first and it might be out of sync
> > with the one we had.
> >
> > Suggestions?
>
> use CPANmodule 5.0; (version number or higher)
> -D

Good idea, we would just have to make sure that if we did any modifications
to the module that we bump the version number that we have (and send any
changes to the module maintainer so that they hopefully get included in the
next CPAN rev).

[dean]

We do have another problem, which is that binary modules (notably
Time::HiRes) might have the right version number, but are compiled for
the wrong version of Perl, where the binary interfaces are
incompatible.


On Dec 11, 2003, at 8:36 AM, Moser, Robert L. II wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Sully
>> * dean blackketter <dean (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com> shaped the
>> electrons to say...
>>> The problem that Caleb was trying to fix was that if you had CPAN
>>> module that we also had installed, but with a different version,
>>> it would pick up the system one first and it might be out of sync
>>> with the one we had.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>
>> use CPANmodule 5.0; (version number or higher)
>> -D
>
> Good idea, we would just have to make sure that if we did any
> modifications
> to the module that we bump the version number that we have (and send
> any
> changes to the module maintainer so that they hopefully get included
> in the
> next CPAN rev).
>

[Dan Sully]

* Moser, Robert L. II <Robert.Moser (AT) med (DOT) va.gov> shaped the electrons to say...

> Good idea, we would just have to make sure that if we did any modifications
> to the module that we bump the version number that we have (and send any
> changes to the module maintainer so that they hopefully get included in the
> next CPAN rev).

Right - which should be happening anyways. Divergent code for no good reason is dangerous.

-D
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