On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:30:03PM +0100, Ash Berlin wrote: > On 19 May 2009, at 17:19, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: > >>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >>>I'll pay attention when it doesn't rely on Module::Install. > >>Should I ask why? > >Would you like to install mandatory pre-requisite Foo::Bar for this > >'ere module what you told the comptuer to install? Y/n > Your information is out of date.
My logs from running the tests and installing thousands of modules a week say you're wrong. > This no longer happens for new > modules. Yes it does. > If it does then complain at that module author to upgrade his > dist. Or at Alias to make Module::Install fucking well self update. Or just automate the problem away using CPAN distroprefs. But *none* of those solutions make Module::Install suck less for people who aren't part of the Perl Cabal. > Also File::ShareDir doesn't rely on Module::Install at all The documentation for File::ShareDir disagrees with you. " For the installation half of the solution, see Module::Install and its install_share directive. " > Module::Install just gives you an way to install the files in the > 'right' place. Module::Build can easily do it to. Module::Build ain't exactly my favourite part of the toolchain either. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001