CPAN.pm still has an open issue with Module::Build with regard to
finding out the prerequisites of a distribution. I append the email
below where I asked the encompassing question: can I rely on the
contents of _build/prereqs?
Since then I have changed CPAN.pm in 1.88_63 to actually read
Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
CPAN.pm still has an open issue with Module::Build with regard to
finding out the prerequisites of a distribution. I append the email
below where I asked the encompassing question: can I rely on the
contents of _build/prereqs?
Since then I have changed CPAN.pm in
On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
CPAN.pm still has an open issue with Module::Build with regard to
finding out the prerequisites of a distribution. I append the email
below where I asked the encompassing question: can I rely on the
contents of _build/prereqs?
Yes,
On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
I'd like to have this resolved before I release 1.89. Would it be
possible to make an interface decision for the prereqs?
Also, I'm committing this patch:
=== lib/Module/Build/API.pod
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:56:08 -0500, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
You're right, that was a surprisingly well working hack. Makefile.PL
wrote a *comment* into the Makefile that could be parsed out again.
M::B does something
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
You're right, that was a surprisingly well working hack. Makefile.PL
wrote a *comment* into the Makefile that could be parsed out again.
M::B does something similar, it writes a file called _build/prereqs
that lists all the prereqs
(Adam raises doubts if his mails come through to the list. Because I
think they don't, I cite him in full length)
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:22:10 +1000, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
(Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:05:56 +1000, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:38:57 -0500 (CDT), Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Adam Kennedy wrote:
The right solution is the same one as mentioned before... that the
codebases of CPAN and Module::Build shouldn't be bleading into each
other, that the CPAN client and
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:05:56 +1000, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm of the opinion tha as soon as we say...
use Module::Build;
... then we've already lost. We're mixing the two different functions
together in the same process.
It's a noble goal to think in purist terms
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Adam Kennedy wrote:
The right solution is the same one as mentioned before... that the
codebases of CPAN and Module::Build shouldn't be bleading into each other,
that the CPAN client and the module installer should remain seperate and
communicate by some sort of other
In newer versions of CPAN.pm which support Module::Build, there appears to
be a bug when dealing with a module that has a custom build module. I saw
this trying to install HTML::Mason with the cpan shell.
The bug comes about because of the CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm() method.
It has the
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