On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > and DateTime-Locale fails because it uses a passthrough Makefile.PL > that requires user interaction to download Module::Build. > (Activestate's build process does check dependencies and would process > Module::Build first if it were a listed as a dependency, but it's > not.) This is a fundamental problem with passthrough or small > compatibility Makefile.PLs, and an excellent reason to not use them.
They could just install Module::Build once on their machines and be done with this problem! I did nag an ActiveState person about this at OSCON and he said that someone was working on re(writing|factoring) the auto-PPM tool. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
