On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:
I'm not sure that particular warning to 'fancy developers' makes much sense. At least not to me, and I suppose its directed specifically at me.
I didn't mean to direct it at you - I wasn't even considering your case, in which fancy stuff gets inadvertently put in.
In fact the creation of _build/prereqs is slightly magical; I never even realised the file was being created. Instead you ought to warn people not to mess with the data structure of $self->{properties}-> {requires}.
Yeah, and we could even back it up with a runtime check when we write the prereqs file, to make sure the structure is what we expect. That would help fancy people like you, wouldn't it? =)
-Ken
