X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120816045553.GA8687@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <91D7F7CEBD3E804FA475882D8920476C281DA3E6DE AT dc-ex1 DOT power DOT com> <20120816045553 DOT GA8687 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:49:42 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl 5.14 and XML::Parser From: Reini Urban To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:04:48PM -0600, Thomas Wicklund wrote: >>The update of perl on to 5.14 moved some perl modules to a new >>perl_vendor package which is not installed by default. The >>announcement I found stated that perl_vendor is modules "which are >>mainly required to build and test and report test results of other CPAN >>modules." That was the short summary, yes. >>I find that the XML::Parser module (at least) has been moved. I've >>been using this module for years to parse XML output for a set of >>Subversion tools. I had a couple hours of digging today to figure out >>why a coworker started getting errors after updating Cygwin, then >>figuring out the new package. As an request from Yaakov and also from upstream p5p I have moved all non-core packages to the new perl_vendor. >>As an occasional user of perl I would much prefer that the maximum >>number of packages be included in the distribution (since disk space >>and bandwidth are constantly becoming cheaper) than to have to spend >>time figuring out why something can't be found. This is right. I really sympathize with you and all others. But unfortunately I had to made this move for political reasons, not technical ones. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple