On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/7/16 Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>> This looks good; I'd ask you double check which deps are required vs.
>> optional: I'm pretty sure we don't -require- any of those packages.
>> Ditto for their correspond build deps. (e.g. libgdbm-devel)
>
> Note, there are more cygwin-side updates to come to this README,
> which I will commit after my parrot-0.6.4 release (in 1-2 days).
>
> In which pod should we document the non-windows package requirements?
> Most of those packages have similar names anyway for every unix/posix
> platform.
>
>> parrot is recursively listed as a build requirement
>
> oops.
>
>> For the optional items, perl's Moose should be on the list (for
>> smartlink), and Test::Perl::Critic/Perl::Critic for the critic tests.
>> (Honestly we should have this documented somewhere else and just refer
>> to it from here.)
>
> Good. Where?

How about docs/dependencies.pod (new file)? This can house the
optional systems we probe for, and a list of the non-core perl modules
we're using (and what they're used for.)

Thanks for the work on cygwin!

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda

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