[Catalyst-dev] PPM Catalyst/Manual.html clash.

Emanuele Zeppieri ema_zep at libero.it
Sat Jul 14 13:09:50 GMT 2007


There is an odd file clash with PPM (the ActivePerl module installer).

The fact: Catalyst::Runtime provides the file Catalyst/Manual.pod and
Catalyst::Manual provides the file Catalyst/Manual.pm, each of which
causes PPM to create a Catalyst/Manual.html file under the html docs
tree it generates.

This may seem a trivial problem, but it unfortunately causes PPM to
fail miserably when installing Task::Catalyst (or Catalyst::Runtime and
Catalyst::Manual anyway).

This is a real shame, since it prevents the casual Windows Perl user 
from trying Catalyst, whereas installing Catalyst on Windows could be 
nowadays as smooth as a couple of clicks (as required by PPM4 to install 
Task::Catalyst).
(PPM aside, the Catalyst/Manual.(pm|pod) duplication should probably be
avoided anyway).

Could you please remove (or rename) Manual.pod from Catalyst::Runtime or
adopt any other solution you see fit?

Many thanks,
Emanuele.



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