Steve Hay wrote:
>> It also allows older versions of MakeMaker to work quietly with newer
>> versions of dmake. Its much more likely that someone will be using a
>> new dmake against an old MakeMaker. Few people upgrade MakeMaker but
>> lots of Windows users grab a copy of dmake off CPAN to install Perl
>> modules.
>
> I hadn't considered that, and now that I do I think you're right.
>
> So I've just written to the dmake guys suggesting that they either don't
> bother with the new warning at all, or else relegate it to the status of
> a "non-essential warning" which is only output when running in a verbose
> mode.
That sounds like a very good idea, thank you. This is the sort of thing a
developer might be interested in but end users will unlikely care.
> Hopefully they'll be happy with that and the EU::MM patch won't be needed.
Let them know if they add the warning I'll be happy to forward them every bug
report I get on the subject. ;)
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