Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:57 -0400 2009: > 12. Allow Sequences (Arrays) for Prereqs > > Proposal: > > Right now, to the best of my knowledge, the only benefit of a the magic > "Bundle::" namespace is that its prerequisites can be declared in optimal > installation order. If META allowed prereqs to be communicated in a set > order by using a sequence of pairs, Bundle's magic could probably be made > obsolete, simplifying the toolchain overall (over a long deprecation > period). > > Comments: > > * I quite like the idea of (perhaps optional) ordering of dependencies, but > I worry a little that we might come to depend on the installation order, > when we really should not. Adam K
What goal does this proposal have *other* than making it possible to depend on installation order? hdp.
