[Mimedefang] New MIME-tools release

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Just a devil's advocate question.  Why wouldn't you put the 3.03 requirement
in the Makefile.pl just to keep people who don't read the docs from messing
everything up?

Regards,
KAM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] New MIME-tools release


> Hi, all.
>
> I've released MIME::Tools 5.413 to CPAN, and it's also available from:
>
> http://www.mimedefang.org/static/mime-tools.php
>
> This version includes all the patches in our RP-PATCHED version, plus
> a whole bunch of other bug-fixes and patches from other MIME-tools users.
>
> Please note that this release *requires* MIME::Base64 version 3.03 or
> newer.  If you're running a Linux distro, upgrading MIME::Base64
> separately can cause problems with up2date and similar tools, which
> will get upset because the perl package will have been modified.
>
> The upcoming MIMEDefang 2.45 release will have a fix for this.  In the
> meantime, you can install MIME::Base64 as follows:
>
> perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site
> make
> make install
>
> which installs the module in your "site" directory rather than the
> core Perl directory.
>
> Unfortunately, because of terminal brain-damage, Perl puts the core
> directory before the site directory in the include path, so you have
> to do this near the top of mimedefang.pl to get it to work:
>
> use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3';
>
> where you replace '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3' with your site
directory.
>
> This lets you use a new version of MIME::Base64 without upsetting your
> distro's package-management tools.
>
> As the maintainer of MIME-tools, I'm probably abandoning the 6.x-ALPHA
> series.  Development will most likely continue from 5.413.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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