Dimpflmoser

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• Commented on Common reasons a module won't install
  I think one of the huge problems is the inclusion of compiled or to be compiled libraries even more so if working on windows. Early this year I tried to get the perl-bindings to gdal library running on windows. The...

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• educated_foo commented on Common reasons a module won't install

  hash randomization

  The best approach would have been to do this only in taint mode, and only for tainted values. As is, this adds non-repeatable behavior to every Perl program for the (theoretical) sake of some web devs.
• Aristotle commented on Common reasons a module won't install

  They already were non-repeatable “for the sake of some web devs”, it just happened much more rarely and unpredictably. (If it did bite you, it was hard to reproduce what caused the problem.) Your complaint is a couple years late.

• educated_foo commented on Common reasons a module won't install

  I put "PERL_HASH_SEED=0" in my init files and forgot about it back then, and I think that still saves me the trouble now. IIUC the recent changes make identical hashes in the same process behave differently, which is much more of a pain than their behaving differently across processes.

  All of this to block a fiddly DoS attack seems a bit excessive, though I grant you it's "technically correct" (the best kind!).

• Aristotle commented on Common reasons a module won't install

  The things people will do to avoid sprinkling a sort here and there… But hey, good for you.