On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:55:12 +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: Hi Adam
> Yet, because the author has a C compiler installed, what will go > into the META.yml file will be a dep on YAML::Syck. If you then > recurse to YAML::Syck, it will say it needs a C compiler, and your recurse? > "do I need a C compiler" program will conclude "Yes", when the > answer is actually "No". OK. I give up. > In the real world case you mentioned, which was one of my modules, > I'd be willing to bet you needed to upgrade Scalar::Util only You lose the bet. I was an install, not an upgrade. > So you see, if authors almost always have C compilers, the META.yml > files are going to return false positives saying you need C > compilers. Here I'd agree authors would normally have compilers, in that we develop modules on a machine with one, while quite possibly $working on a machine without one. -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/10/2006 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company
