From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:46:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805221245240.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080521235647.GA21340@foursquare.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Chris Frey wrote:

> The problem as I see it, is that the decision about whether the existing 
> Error.pm "works as expected" is done at compile time.  And git will 
> break itself by repeated installs.

I do not see how it is _Git_ that breaks itself by repeated installs.  It 
detects that there is an Error.pm.  Fine.  You _remove_ it while 
installing Git.  Not fine.  Not Git's error.

Ciao,
Dscho