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CPAN.pm crashes if off-line #1924
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From ian@dial.pipex.comCreated by ian@homer.dial.pipex.comAttempting to restart CPAN on a new 5.6.0 installation, I was asked for config .... CPAN picked up the LWP from a site_perl directory, but it didn't work, so it ~ % perl -MNet::FTP -e 1; Hmm.. we have ... so Net::FTP stops working because I upgraded my processor :-( Maybe [1] Net::FTP's travails aren't a concern of perl5-porters; however the ... hmm... actually, the problem is more subtle. If you do 'eval{require Net::FTP}' on my machine, the first time it There's a case for saying this is a bug in 'require' - the module Hence CPAN::META::has_inst() is unwise to rely on the return code from I'm not going to venture a patch just yet, since this looks b*y (Footnote: I can't help feeling that, if CPAN.pm is in the core Oh, and I've now discovered CPAN::Nox, so don't bother telling me about it. Ian Perl Info
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From @andk
[...details snipped...] Thanks for the insightful bugreport. Will be fixed in the next version
CC'd to Graham Barr. Maybe now that Net::FTP seems to have reached a |
From @gbarrOn Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 08:11:41AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
We have been here before and stability was never the issue. See the archives Graham. |
From The RT System itselfThe ChangeLog of CPAN.pm that comes with the 2000-06-17 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de> * Introduced has_usable which is pickier than has_inst. Thanks to |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#3194 (status was 'resolved')
Searchable as RT3194$
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