# from Andreas J. Koenig # on Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:18 pm: > > The solution really should not involve 'traditional'. > > > Furthermore, I already do declare a dependency on Module::Build in > the > META.yml. It seems that this is ignored though. I understand > Adam's > argument about platform-sensitive dependencies, but > shouldn't we have > some way to say "you absolutely must install the > build tool first"? > Wouldn't a static yaml file be the place for > that? > >Have you not seen Adam's recent postings about configure_requires?
Which ones? http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/32707 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2007/03/msg558.html Other than "M::I" already did it, I think we still need to get it into META.yml. I guess I'll switch lists now. >It's on my agenda to implement this and it seems by far the best >solution to this problem to me. And it is not much work. And I'm sure >it is not much work for CPANPLUS. I'm looking forward to it. --Eric -- "It works better if you plug it in!" --Sattinger's Law --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
