FastCGi on IIS... The tale of Microsoft and my new Perl Module...

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:17:46PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:41:24 David Cantrell wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 October 2007 07:49:06 David Cantrell wrote:
> > >> Unfortunately there's an awful lot of people who still have old versions
> > >> of CPAN.pm.  There will be for as long as they use perl 5.8.8, because
> > >> CPAN.pm doesn't get upgraded.
> > > I remember CPAN doing this for years.
> > And?  I remember *ignoring* that message for years,
> No surprise that you have problems updating software, then.

If your software requires a newer version of CPAN.pm than what I have
intalled, then there is a mechanism for you to specify that and to make
the upgrade happen fairly painlessly.  For upgrading something as
important as CPAN.pm, I would appreciate being asked before it does it
though.

> Perhaps you can give us all a list of the ancient versions of software you 
> personally use so we can update all of our code to use only features and work 
> around bugs present in those ancient versions so that we can release new 
> versions of our software that you won't update to.

Ha ha ha

-- 
David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic
optimisation.  Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.