On Jul 17, 2004, at 3:13 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-17 18:43]:
Not quite. There's a new mechanism in M::B (it's done in CVS
already, you can take a look) called "features", which
formalizes the concept of optional functionality that can be
turned on or off.
Now what would be *very* cool is if I could say that I want some
optional feature even though I don't have its prerequisites
installed, and then have these prereqs automatically promoted to
mandatory ones (which, presumably, would then be autoinstalled by
whichever CPAN shell is in use).
Yup, that's in the plan. It's not implemented yet, though.
Note there's some precedent for this idea in Module::Install.
-Ken
