On 4/13/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Yves, > > This is a known shortcoming of CPAN's approach to dependency > detection. There's no solution inside the META.yml itself, though in > some distant future version we'd like to expand the little language > that describes dependencies so it would indeed be capable of > expressing platform-specific dependencies. > > In the meantime, I'm not sure what to suggest - if you omit the > META.yml I assume CPAN would try another method, but I'm not sure. > It's also possible that if you put dynamic_config => 1 in the > META.yml it could try another method, but I'm certainly not sure > about that either. :-/
Seems like if the META.yml creation occured on the installers machine instead of on the distributors machine the problem would go away, and allow inifinte flexibility. So for the time being it looks like I have to hand hack my MakeMaker or something. Hmm. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
