<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/20 Ash Berlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ash_cpan@firemirror.com">ash_cpan@firemirror.com</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
1) configure_requires. Doesn't help with old clients</blockquote><div><br>Well, it kind of does.<br><br>There's a phase in the configure_requires plan that occurs after it is supported in the core (which is 5.10.1) where we start upgrading various distros to bitch in a specific way if they fail.<br>
<br>So DBD::SQLite could just while "Failed to find DBI, your CPAN client may be critically out of date, please upgrade it".<br><br>One the CPAN client is upgraded to ANY version that supports configure_requires, the problem goes away forever.<br>
<br>Only downside remains that the CPAN client out-the-box isn't good enough, so we have to make sure to catch this and push the users to upgrade more aggressively than they do now.<br><br></div></div>Adam K<br>