[DBIx-Class-Devel] Busted Releasing on Windows

[Peter Rabbitson]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:59:16PM +1100, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:53:36AM -0500, Brendan Byrd wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+dbic at rabbit.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > SineSwiper seems bent on continuing to run in hell, and I like
> > > the challenge, so I guess overall it's worth it. It also makes the
> > > distbuilder more robust in the long run.
> > 
> > I guess I'm the only Perl programmer that isn't running some Ubuntu or
> > similar distro on his lappy.  I dunno what OSS utopia you guys are
> > working in, but most companies still use Windows desktops/laptops.  I
> > mean, we use Linux servers a lot, and most of the software ends up on
> > on them.  But, I still write the actual code on Windows.
> 
> Not the only, but there are indeed *very* few. In any case while looking
> into this I learned a whole lot of stuff about EUMM, and the resulting
> distbuilding proces is much cleaner as well. Please check if the fixes in
> topic/win32_fixups work for you. I tested a successful `make distdir` on
> WinXP (`make dist` would require a tar binary). There may still be things
> I have missed however.

Any luck with this? I am holding off merging the changes until someone 
else can confirm it all works reasonably on their flavor of Win32.

Cheers