Installation fails on Windows about pod-cached

[finanalyst]

Can someone verify that this is a Windows only issue, or is it a Linux problem as well.

[noisegul]

For me it works on Linux and OSX.

Tested with:

• Linux: Rakudo Star 2019.03, built myself
• OSX: Rakudo Star 2019.03, installed via Homebrew

Would probably also be good if someone could confirm the installation error on Windows, since Windows is not my main workstation.

[finanalyst]

I had problems with an Ubuntu setup.
zef was not seeing Pod::To::Cached.
I have updated zef from 0.7.1 to current 0.7.4:

cd ~/zef    # the location Rakudo Star puts zef
git pull
perl6 -i. bin/zef install .
### to install P::Documentable
cd ~/development/perl6-documentable    ## where I have my local repo copy
zef install .

The installation proceeded to completion, and seemed to run the tests without a problem (?)
Next time I tried to install, it failed the tests.

However, the failures are not related to Pod::To::Cached

[finanalyst]

So far as I can discover, the Windows OS testing is initiated by zef (it is the only Module in the chain that has an appveyor configuration file).
There was an issue with Pod::To::Cached related to a change in JSON::Fast . This means that version required by Pod::To::Cached must be greater than JSON::Fast:ver<0.9.18> This is now fixed in the META.json file of P2Cached.
zef is now installing the new version of Pod::To::Cached.
I am closing this issue for the time being. If a Windows issue reappears, then please renew the issue.

[JJ]

This issue is apparently still an issue, according to @noisegul . Can you all please check if there's still a problem and close it again if it's not?

[noisegul]

I gave it another go, issue persists as mentioned, same error output as above.