On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:56:07AM -0500, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!
AFAICT, they do each build in a "clean" environment with only those modules that are listed as dependencies installed. And the ExtUtils::MakeMaker Way of Doing Things is that Makefile.PL has to be run *first* and then dependencies be checked. This makes non-traditional compatibility Makefile.PL's something of a joke, since there is no way for them to be compatible under automated build tools. > 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. One thing you can do is add build_requires: Module::Build to META.yml. Don't know if their tool even checks this file, but it seems to me incorrect to not have it listed.
