I've been trying to install Autrijus's PAR module from the ActiveState PPM 
repository on a Win32 box. A search reports that version 0.73 is available:

ppm:1>  search par*
Searching in Active Repositories
    1. PAR                   [0.63] (none)
    2. PAR                   [0.67] (none)
    3. PAR                   [0.73] Perl Archive Tookit

Then, by doing 'install 3' the module installs, with dependencies.

However, checking the $PAR::VERSION variable, it is actually installing 0.69:

C:\> cat c:\perl\site\lib\PAR.pm | grep VERSION
$PAR::VERSION = '0.69';

Checking the zip of the build on ppm.activestate.com yields the same problem.

Now, theoretically, PAR-0.73 should not pass the automatic build tests 
since it depends on PAR-Dist-0.03 or newer and those don't build properly 
automatically because Autrijus uses Module::Install to derive the NAME for 
the Makefile. But the status page shows PAR as having passed.

This is a Bad Thing that the package is being build with the wrong version 
in the ppd. Actually, it's a Really Bad Thing since PAR had some serious 
bugs specifically on Windows machines.

Michael

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