Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-22 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-22 13:40]: > I hope, however, that the CP6AN will make it obsolete by > having: And as an aside, 6PAN will hopefully have a `configure_requires` mechanism right out of the gate; its hitherto absence from the Perl 5 toolchain is a critical hole. Regard

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:48:23PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > As an aside, it seems to me that both Devel::CheckLib and > configure_requires suffer from a fatal flaw in that they do not solve > the problem for existing modules. Agreed. There are actually two problems to solve: * not sending bogus

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-21 16:50]: > A) The contents of META.yml is not well or widely documented. > That META-spec-blead in the Module::Build source code > repository does mention it does not make it well publicized nor > documented. About the only people who would know about it ar

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Hello David, I should have answered your mail earlier, but I keep forgetting things.. David Cantrell wrote: NB: this has been sent to several mailing lists. Watch those replies! Dave Golden and I have been hacking on Devel::CheckLib, which should be on a CPAN mirror near you soon. It's

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
demerphq wrote: > On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]: >>> How does one use this then? Where is it documented? >> http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html#configure_requires > > So how do i use this with MakeMake

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread David Golden
On 10/21/07, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > B) Absent a documented way to set this in MakeMaker, suggesting that > it is the appropriate solution to the problem intended to be solved by > Devel::CheckLib seems out of place at best, and presumptive at worst. > > As an aside, it seems to me th

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread demerphq
On 10/20/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 23:10]: > > On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]: > > > > How does one use this then? Where is it documented? > > > > > > http://

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-21 Thread Ken Williams
On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:00 AM, David Cantrell wrote: Dave Golden and I have been hacking on Devel::CheckLib, which should be on a CPAN mirror near you soon. It's similar to Devel::CheckOS, in that it will let module authors specify dependencies which aren't just other perl modules - if they

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-20 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:31:41 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Doesn’t seem like you can do that from within MakeMaker so far. See also http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30098 (Documentation for EXTRA_META is missing) -- andreas

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 23:10]: > On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]: > > > How does one use this then? Where is it documented? > > > > http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html#configure_requi

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread demerphq
On 10/19/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]: > > How does one use this then? Where is it documented? > > http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html#configure_requires So how do i use this with MakeMaker? Yves -- perl -M

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-19 18:50]: > How does one use this then? Where is it documented? http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html#configure_requires -- *AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1} &Just->another->Perl->hack; #Arist

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread demerphq
On 10/19/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # from David Cantrell > # on Friday 19 October 2007 04:00: > > >The more alert of you will have noticed that there is a bootstrapping > >problem in using this from within a Makefile.PL - relax, it will come > >with a script to bundle itself in

Re: Devel::CheckLib: Please try to break our code!

2007-10-19 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell # on Friday 19 October 2007 04:00: >The more alert of you will have noticed that there is a bootstrapping >problem in using this from within a Makefile.PL - relax, it will come >with a script to bundle itself in an inc/ directory. Or use configure_requires. --Eric -- perl