# from Julian Mehnle
# on Wednesday 19 July 2006 02:15 pm:
>> So we are free of the circular dependency. We aren't free of the
>> dependency on "make".
And we aren't free of the general where we must politely ask our
dependencies to please not (ever) use M::B to build themselves. A bit
silly. Should we recommend that they use Module::Install?
>> (Since M::B requires version.pm which
>> requires EU::MM which requires make.)
>
>How does version.pm require EU::MM? It can still be built using M::B
> only.
Not without a working M::B, which requires version.pm. See the bundle
demo for how including two files and a couple lines in M::B's Build.PL
gets around this.
--Eric
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