# from David Golden
# on Thursday 19 July 2007 04:23 am:
> On 7/19/07, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Presumably, the compatibility Makefile.PL isn't used for ./Build
>> dist, so the META.yml shouldn't be affected, right?
>
>The distribution that triggered this investigation is Module::Mask,
> which uses create_makefile_pl => 'passthrough'
>
>It seems that "make distdir" calls Build and the META.yml is created
>by Module::Build and looks fine when I tried it on that distribution.
So, "yes, we don't need it for that" ?
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Thursday 19 July 2007 08:00 am:
>The way MakeMaker traditionally handles a perl prerequisite is by
> sticking "require 5.xxx" at the top of the Makefile.PL.
That's what I was fishing for.
I think we want to keep the current behavior, but print 'require' in the
Makfile.PL.
--Eric
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