On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> Version 0.36, eh?
>
> We currently list Module::Build in Build.PL under build_requires:
>
> build_requires => {
> 'Module::Build' => 0.280801,
>
> Version 0.280801 is the version that shipped with Perl 5.10.0, when
> Module::Build was added to the Perl core. We don't want to require M::B
> version 0.36 -- that's silly and unnecessary.
>
> But maybe it's OK for M::B to add itself like that under configure_requires
> because versions prior to 0.36 ignored configure_requires? I'm speculating…
It was added in 0.2808_01. Module::Build just inserts its current version if
you don't specify it.
> David Wheeler has agreed to perform the CPAN release for Lucy 0.2.2. David,
> can you please make sure that M::B doesn't force its minimum required version
> to 0.36 when you run ./Build dist?
>
> And then probably adding this line to Build.PL would be OK for both trunk and
> our 0.2 branch (assuming that the 0.2 branch has a life beyond 0.2.2, which
> may not be the case.)
>
> configure_requires => { 'Module::Build' => 0.280801 }
Well, I'll have to add that to the Build.PL in order to prevent Module::Build
from inserting the latest version of itself. Or we can add
`auto_configure_requires => 0`.
Is it too late to make one of these changes? Has 0.2.2 been tagged and packaged
up, yet?
Best,
David
