Don't install a different version than you promised!

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Don't install a different version than you promised!
Date: 11:16 on 26 May 2005
I wanted to install dbish, the DBI shell, on a Windows machine.

One `ppm install DBI-Shell` later and I had a dbish. Yay! It also
downloaded and installed some prerequisites, such as Test::Simple and
Text::Reform v1.11.

Or so I thought.

The next time I started ppm, ten minutes later, it bombed with:

"break_at" is not exported by the Text::Reform module
Can't continue after import errors at
C:/Programme/ActivePerl/site/lib/Text/Reform.pm line 43
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:/Programme/ActivePerl/site/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at C:\Programme\ActivePerl\bin\ppm3-bin line =
12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:\Programme\ActivePerl\bin\ppm3-bin line 12.

Looking in Text/Reform.pm, it appears that this is version 1.10 -- not
1.11! Even though ppm thinks it's version 1.11.

And downloading Reform.pm v1.11 shows that it's a week older than the
v1.10 that was installed by ppm. WTF?

Hateful.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>

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